Beaufort Agricultural Society annual show
Joe McCRACKEN (Western Victoria) (14:02): I rise to pay tribute to the Beaufort Agricultural Society. I had the pleasure of going to their annual show not this weekend just gone but the one before. I would particularly like to pay tribute to Helen Kirkpatrick and her entire family, who worked so tirelessly to make the show a reality. This was a fair dinkum rural country show. We had horses, we had cows, we had sheep and we had every other animal that you can probably think of – goats even I think as well. I was very, very pleased to judge a number of different awards. Not unsurprisingly – you might know it is a bit of a trend – I also awarded the best mullet award for 2023. I did not really have a good chance of going in for that competition, because it is not really something I am good at, but I was very, very pleased – in three age categories, mind you, so it was quite good.