Melton electorate
Steve McGHIE (Melton) (15:07): (877) My question is for the Minister for Veterans. How does the Allan Labor government’s free travel on Remembrance Day for veterans benefit and support the serving members and veterans of the Melton electorate on Monday 11 November? Free travel is extended to school students, scouts, guides, Australian Defence Force cadets and band members in uniform travelling to commemoration events. Organisations like the Melton RSL Young Diggers are incredibly important to the lives of the 1 per cent of Meltonians who have served or are serving in the Australian Defence Force and their families. In the coming years I hope see the ABS collect some data around the service of our new Australians too. Next year in April it will be 50 years since the end of the war in Vietnam, which was the longest engagement in Australian military history until the war in Afghanistan. I look forward to once again commemorating Remembrance Day in Melton.