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

I stand today to acknowledge those constituents of mine who received awards in the Queen's Birthday honours just this past weekend. Jan Sardi from Eltham, a filmmaker, director and screenwriter who was nominated for an Academy Award for Shine and wrote and directed Love's Brother, becomes an Officer in the Order of Australia. Vincent Tony Kelly from Donvale, for his work in business, particularly the natural resource supply industry, has been made an AM, as has Antoinette Kimmitt, also from Donvale. Bruce Parker, Robert Peak, Saara Sabbagh, Hardy Shum and Richard Thomson were all named as recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia. In particular, I congratulate Hardy Shum, who has been the President of the Chinese Senior Citizens Club of Manningham for many, many years. He is the driving force behind this organisation, which has some hundreds of members, meets on a very regular basis and provides a real service to the seniors in the Chinese community within my electorate of Menzies.

Finally, it would be remiss of me not to also congratulate my friend and former colleague Tony Abbott on being made a Companion of the Order of Australia and my friend Bill Scott on being made a Member of the Order of Australia for his service to the pharmacy industry.