Luke Gosling (Solomon, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I would like to acknowledge a delegation from the Timor-Leste Integrated Crisis Management Centre who are in the chamber today. They are here in Canberra to visit our emergency management organisations, to build those important people-to-people links, to gain insights into our crisis response institutions and to see the arrangements that we have to help us prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. Colonel Aluk is the director of the centre and Senhor Domingos Pinto is the director of operations in the Ministry of the Interior. In a previous life, I worked with Colonel Aluk as a military adviser in Timor-Leste. I feel honoured to call him a friend. I would like to welcome him and his delegation here today in their national language, Tetum:

Commandante Sira, Bemvindo mai ami-nia Parlamentu; ha'u kontente loos atu hasoru malu fali ho ita-boot Aluk. Favor ida hato'o hela ha'u nia kumprimentus ba ita nia espouza, Dona Olinda.

I just said: 'Welcome to our parliament. It is great to see you again. Please pass my compliments to your amazing wife, Donna Linda.'

Australian Defence Force cooperation represents the commitment we have to supporting our neighbour and friend Timor-Leste. I commend their work to the House and I commend this delegation to the House.