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

I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate all those students from throughout Australia who gathered here at Parliament House yesterday for the announcement of the Australian teams for the International Science Olympiads. Students in biology, maths and various other STEM subjects were all here, having been chosen from competitions in this country to make teams to go overseas for this very prestigious international competition. It was good that the Chief Scientist of Australia, Dr Alan Finkel, along with the Assistant Minister for Science, Jobs and Innovation, Senator Seselja, was there to make all the announcements to these worthy young representatives from the scholarly future of Australia of their progress to go overseas.

Amongst them, I'd like to make particular reference to Stephen Catsamas from Marcellin College in Bulleen in my electorate. Marcellin College is one of the great secondary schools in my electorate, partly because one of my daughters teaches there. It's been a great school for many decades, and it's great that Stephen has been chosen to go to Portugal later this year to participate in the Australian team. To all of the students who were here yesterday, congratulations on your efforts to date and our very best wishes in your competitions to come.