Constituency questions
Southern Metropolitan Region
John BERGER (Southern Metropolitan) (12:30): (225) My question is for the Minister for Veterans in the other place, Minister Suleyman. Last Wednesday I received a tour of the Shrine of Remembrance from CEO Dean Lee. It was touching to see up close the great care and planning that went into the shrine’s construction – the colonnades, the trees, the ceremony and majesty, a place of reflection and the stone where the sun only shines once, on the 11th of the 11th. I was honoured to visit the education centre supported by our government to educate the next generation about our veterans, and on Sunday I represented the minister along with Mr Tarlamis at the Boer War and the American service commemorations. Recently the minister announced more than $1.4 million in funding for 55 projects across the state for veterans. I ask the minister to outline how the Andrews Labor government is investing in programs that support and honour veterans and their families in my community of Southern Metro.