Wednesday, 16 October 2024

Plane crash anniversary

Paul EDBROOKE (Frankston) (10:13): I also rise today in a shout-out to my friends at the Barwon Heads drop zone who survived a plane crash this time last year. A year ago this Sunday I found myself around this time sitting in a paddock with 17 other people, wondering how I was alive. Big thanks to the emergency services workers and police on scene at that time. Certainly it does give me pause to realise, and a renewed sense, I guess, that every day is a great day to be alive and every day is an opportunity to make change and to make my community and Victoria better. I note that in communications this morning with some of the people in that plane crash that has happened for those people too. They have seen a renewed sense of vigour in the way they embrace life, in the way they wake up in the morning and see life as an opportunity to be grabbed. I would not recommend that kind of experience to everyone, but certainly I shout out to the friendships that have been made through that incident.