CONSTITUENCY STATEMENTS

Ms RYAN (Lalor—Chief Government Whip) (09:48): On Friday evening, I had the absolute pleasure of attending the launch and the opening for the annual Wyndham Learning Festival at the Wyndham Cultural Centre. It was an absolutely lovely evening. The Wyndham Community & Education Centre support this event in conjunction with Wyndham City Council.

I was also thrilled to see—there are a lot of 'Wyndhams' in these sentences!—Wyndham Central College, my old school, where I was principal, performing and providing the musical accompaniment for the evening. It was absolutely fabulous to be showcasing that wonderful music department at Wyndham Central College. I got to hear a few numbers from one of the school captains of the day.

It was a wonderful experience. I also learnt about something terrific that's happening in our libraries. Wyndham libraries had a presentation in the foyer at this event where I met a young man who's started a business providing digital books to our local libraries.

That is absolutely fabulous and a new innovation for those locally who don't want to take a hardcopy of a book out but may want to borrow a digital book. Across the western suburbs of Melbourne—across Melbourne, in fact—the football and netball seasons are coming to the finals. On Saturday I was pleased to attend Werribee's last game of the season, against Sandringham.

We ran out winners on the day. Jack Riding was best on ground with 27 possessions and five goals. Sandringham beat us in the first round, so it was really nice to finish the season with a big win.

That leaves us finishing second, behind Geelong, as we roll into those VFL finals. We'll have a break this week and be playing the following week. There are football and netball finals across the WRFL in my community, as well as in the GDFL.

We've got lots of teams and clubs ramping it up for finals, from the under-10s all the way through to the seniors. I want to wish all of the teams in the finals good luck in the coming weeks. I'll get to as many of those finals matches as I possibly can.

I don't promise to get to everything, but I'm hoping this year to actually get to see some of the local netballers in their grand finals.