Cranbourne electorate
Pauline RICHARDS (Cranbourne) (11:26): I am really delighted to have the opportunity to tell the story about why Cranbourne is a place of progressive, activist, caring and committed community members, and that was all reflected in the lead-up to 26 November. In particular I am able to reflect on the support for the greater community from the mighty Electrical Trades Union and Graeme Watson, who has stood shoulder to shoulder with me over 15 years, actually, and was certainly shoulder to shoulder with me in the lead-up to 26 November. There is nothing quite like a nurse, a retired nurse, telling the story of the importance of the Cranbourne community hospital. It was a really compelling and important story that was told. With that in mind I would like to acknowledge the hard work of Hannah Spanswick, somebody very well known to so many of us here and somebody who is very committed to the Cranbourne community; of course the Barton crew and another nurse there and Chris Morgan – nurses, nurses, nurses. I would like to acknowledge Felicity James, Laurie Hook, Josephine and Antonio, Jean Marc and Graeme Phipps – all of the hardworking people of my community: the Jolliffe crew, Rab Best, Deb Garang, Vasu, David Ma, Muzafer, Dr Rahimi, Johney Varghese, Nasima, Zubaida and Faheem. I would like to also thank Rabia, Elona and Noura, Dianne Bush and Janaki. I am very lucky to have them all.