Graham Perrett (Moreton, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek to inform the Australian parliament about this wonderful work put out by one of my local RSLs: The Great War1914-1918 'Lest we forget': a local history of World War One heroes – Indooroopilly to Oxley. It was researched by local schoolchildren in consultation with the Sherwood Indooroopilly RSL Schools Centenary Project. I want to particularly mention the president of the RSL, Glenn Mostyn, and Kevin Alcock and Graeme Loughton, who did so much to make this take place. I seek leave to table this document.

Leave is granted.

I thank the minister at the table for that. I particularly note some of the contributions by the students. They obviously had teachers supporting them and mentoring them, but there's one particular essay about the Keid family by Beulah Cox. They've gone through all of the memorials in my area and a bit of Ryan as well—the Keating Park Memorial, the Graceville War Memorial, Bannerman Park in Oxley and other memorials and churches and the like that have honour boards. I want to acknowledge the great work of Jim Gibson, Ian Lang, David Dalziel, John Pearn, Peter Crossman and Ron Ausman; all of the mentoring teachers in the participating schools—I won't have time to mention them all; the student researchers, who did the hard work; Marian Mackenzie from the Oxley-Chelmer History Group; Brian Wade; and so many other people that have brought this story to light so that everyone can access this great resource.