Kevin Andrews (Menzies, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Next Monday a group of 50 to 60 cyclists will set off on a 1,000-kilometre ride from Albury to Sydney via Wagga, Talbingo, Cooma, Canberra, Goulburn, Mittagong and Camden. This year's annual Pollie Pedal, the 20th in the series, will raise funds for Soldier On, the organisation that supports veterans, especially those from more recent campaigns such as Timor, Afghanistan and Iraq. We hope that through this year's ride we will raise about half a million dollars for a new Soldier On facility at North Head, where the ride concludes eight days after we begin next Monday.

Along with the member for Warringah, who co-founded this event 20 years ago, the members for Hume, Canning, Lyne, Solomon and I will participate in all or part of the event, with some 40 to 50 other cyclists. Anybody who would like to follow our progress, or indeed make a donation to a very worthy cause—namely Soldier On—can either go to my web page, kevinandrews.com.au, or my Facebook page, where there are links, or go directly to the web page www.polliepedal.org.au.