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

Father's Day was 2 September, and I want to thank my daughter, Sally, my son, Frank, and my wonderful wife, Kate, for the wonderful Father's Day presents they made me. I also want to thank my mother-in-law, Lee, for being nice to me. Father's Day is an opportunity to remember those that are special in our lives and all that we've got to thank our fathers for.

In the Solomon electorate, we held a Father's Day fundraising event for prostate cancer awareness raising, a fun run or walk of one, four or eight kilometres. I want to congratulate Katie Woolf, Mix FM, the organisers, sponsors and everyone else for that great event. Prostate cancer is such an important issue.

Sally and Frank, I want to be there to see you grow up to be well-behaved teenagers and to live extraordinary lives, and that's why tomorrow I'm getting a blood test for prostate cancer. I want to acknowledge the work of the member for Leichhardt and my friend the member for Blaxland, Jason Clare, on their initiative and also the great work of the Prostate Cancer Foundation. It is important. We want to take better care of ourselves as blokes. Go to your GPs and get a test.