Rick Wilson (O'Connor, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I recently had the honour of opening the Field of Light: Avenue of Honour installation in Albany, which received $290,000 from the government's Building Better Regions Fund. Anyone who's seen the Field of LightUluru installation will be familiar with the concept, so imagine what it looks like on Mt Clarence, overlooking Albaly's magnificent Princess Royal Harbour with 16,000 globes lighting the way through the Avenue of Honour. This is the most fitting location to remember young Anzacs who lost their lives in the horror of the Great War. For those young men in that first convoy, Princess Royal Harbour was their last sight of Australian shores. That's why Albany continues to be central to the Anzac story. It's now home to the National Anzac Centre, where the generations that came after those first diggers can pay homage to their sacrifice.

As we approach the Centenary of Armistice, this installation will once again focus the attention on the Albany Anzac story and will encourage many thousands more to make the pilgrimage there. I congratulate the City of Albany for its foresight in pursuing this wonderful project and making it a reality. I congratulate the extraordinarily talented artist Bruce Munro and his team of volunteers who worked so hard to complete the installation. The Field of Light: Avenue of Honour will be in place until 25 April next year. I look forward to taking my family up there on the many beautiful summer evenings ahead. I urge everybody who can bring their families to do so as well.