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

This past weekend, the Queen's Birthday weekend, up in Darwin we had the Greek GleNTi festival, an amazing couple of days of Greek culture, food, dance, wine and song. It was amazing. It was the 32nd Greek GleNTi, and the clubs had their massive lamb and chicken spits and honey puffs, which are a favourite of my kids. The Hellenic Athletic Club's T-shirt said, 'GleNTi is BACK … Let's EAT! Opa!' A great time was had by all, so well done to all the clubs. As well as Hellenic, we had Olympic, the Kalymnian Brotherhood, the Greek school, the Cyprus club, the Macedonian association, the Greek community cultural trust, the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art's Rita Macarounas with a sketching stand, St John Ambulance and all the volunteers, musicians and dance groups.

All the funds raised at the Greek GleNTi festival by the clubs are kept by the clubs, and they're a really important part of Darwin and Palmerston. The money raised by the GleNTi group keeps the church, the school and the community going. As well as that, they donated $30,000 to Police Legacy. Well done to all involved.