Tuesday, 20 June 2023

 Wayne FARNHAM (Narracan) (13:19): I rise today to talk about my wonderful community of Narracan again. Hopefully before we come back to this chamber after the winter break we will have completed four independent living units for homeless women over 55. Through the campaign at the last election I was fortunate enough to meet up with user groups like Quantum and Fairview homes. It was a surprise to me that we have up to 500 people homeless at any one point in time in Narracan, and of those homeless, women are a very big proportion of that. So it was discussed – and obviously I have the skill set, being a builder – and at the meetings with Fairview homes and Quantum we decided to revamp four old units that were out at the Fairview homes site. I did not just do this by myself; my whole community was involved in this project, probably at a cost of over $300,000, but people gave money, time and materials. It has been a fantastic project. I really look forward to the opening of these units. It will not be too far away, and hopefully before we get back in this chamber I can stand up and say, ‘There are people in these units.’ It has been a fantastic community project, and I want to thank my electorate and the people of Narracan for the hard work and effort that they put in.