Dean Smith (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I, and also on behalf of Senators Sterle, Pratt, Lines, Dodson, O'Sullivan and Brockman move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that the 2020 Australian of the Year Awards finalists were announced on 13 November 2019;

(b) notes that the Australian of the Year Awards has four categories, including Young Australian of the Year, which celebrates exceptional 16 to 30 year-olds who have succeeded from all different walks of life;

(c) recognises the 2020 WA Young Australian of the Year nominee, Mr Yarlalu Thomas, a Nyangumarta Pitjikarli man from Warralong, south-east of Port Hedland, Western Australia; and

(d) congratulates the other nominees from Western Australia:

  (i) Ms Annie Fogarty, AM, of the Fogarty Foundation, Perth, nominated for 2020 WA Australian of the Year,

  (ii) Professor John Newnham, AM, of the University of Western Australia, Perth, nominated for 2020 WA Senior Australian of the Year, and

  (iii) Ms Suzy Urbaniak of the CoRE Learning Foundation, Victoria Park, nominated for 2020 WA Local Hero.

Question agreed to.