Russell Broadbent (Monash, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Warragul Red Cross celebrated its AGM and 90th birthday last week. Outgoing chair, Shirley Grove, new chair, Isabell Ough, new treasurer, Rose Atkins, and ongoing secretary, Helen Langres, certainly made it a great celebration. Shirley Grove, as the outgoing chair, told the story of her first Red Cross meeting. Can you believe it? She was invited over the back fence by Molly Utber in Koo Wee Rup. She first met my mother, Bronwyn Broadbent, at that meeting more than 40 years ago. Molly Utber was such a wonderful person in the Koo Wee Rup district, including in Lang Lang. I said, 'What's the connection with the Geelong Football Club and Molly Utber?' No-one in the room knew, but I knew. Molly Utber was Patrick Dangerfield's great-great-grandmother. So Red Cross has been not only serving the community but producing high-class athletes for a very long time. At every major tragedy in all our electorates you'll see Red Cross turning up. They've been doing it for more than 100 years, and Warragul Red Cross has celebrated 90 years of service.