CONSTITUENCY STATEMENTS
Mr TIM WILSON (Goldstein) (16:54): Not long ago, St Agnes' Anglican Church in Black Rock was on a financial precipice. The state government continues to increase land taxes on community organisations, including churches that own property, and that makes them face a choice: are they going to be able to financially survive or not? But, through its Giving St Agnes' a Future campaign, residents rallied behind St Agnes'.
It continues to run its op shop, it continues to be a centre for community gathering and it continues to be a centre that we desperately need. Thank you to David Powys, Jenny Haworth, Jean Oliver, Di Matthews, Helen Wilson, Sharon Edmunds and everyone at St Agnes' for keeping the faith and the community strong. Brighton Grammar has achieved something truly remarkable over the past couple of weeks.
Last Saturday, they had four teams in the APS finals: one in basketball, one in soccer, one in rugby and one in footy. Each one of them of course performed brilliantly, but the rugby team and the footy team particularly did. I want to say congratulations to Max Allen, Harvey Atchinson, Kai Ballantyne, Jamie Bezencon, Seb Dalrymple, Billy Duncan, Charlie Elliott, Max Frawley, Archie Goodjer-McGrath, Philip Hopkins, Noah Jury, Lachlan Korser, Faf Krueger, Mikah Ludbrook-Watt, William Owen, James Poltoglou, Daniel Piccolo, Leon Ralogaivan, Joseph Sansotta, Taine Simpson, Max Tokava, Ed Urquhart— A division having been called in the House of Representatives— Sitting suspended from 16:56 to 17:07 Mr TIM WILSON: Hamish Ward and Alex Woolf, as well as the head of rugby, Biddy Duckham; and the coach, Josh Moore.
Not to be outdone was the Brighton Grammar footy team, who won not just their final but the entire season undefeated. For a perfect season, I want to congratulate Arki Butler, Henry Thomas, Sandro Macnab, Nicholas Williams, Harry Zerna, Billy Blazey, Jasper Williams, Jack Nicholls, Riley Stratford, Will Irving, Mason Tapping, Jake Miller, Oake De Zeeuw, Sunny King, Eddie Peat, Jack Surkitt, Quentin Hofmann, Archie Bakoulas, Tyson Bradley, Lachlan Strahan, Archie Bull, Henri Haycox, Miller White, Tom Roche and Max Mansfield, as well as the head of football, Tim Marshall; and the coach, Simon McPhee.
I want to congratulate the whole BGS community, led by their outstanding headmaster, Ross Featherstone, who does an amazing job. Let's be quite simple and clear about this, whether it's the rugby or the footy: go Tonners! They're fantastic, and it was an enormous celebration down at Crowther Oval and in the entire BGS community over recent days—justly so.