CONSTITUENCY STATEMENTS
Mr TIM WILSON (Goldstein) (10:02): The Ormond Amateur Football Club has been part of our community since 1931, making it the second oldest suburban footy club in the VAFA. Saturday was a big day for the Monders, with two sides in grand finals and one piece of history. The Monders Reserves brought home the club's first ever women's premiership, with a score of five goals and eight behinds to three goals and nine behinds—38 to 27.
Congratulations to everybody who was part of this history. Congratulations to the coaches, Oscar Persson and Steve Harrison; to the team manager, Tali Erman; and to the president, Jason Burt, and secretary, Malcolm Roach, who backed the women's program and kept the club strong enough for a day like this. We also need to celebrate those people involved in the training.
Congratulations Emma Dawson, Emily Liu, Sarah Radlow, Bella Milne, Lani Hammam, Lily Bayes, Eleni Balassis, Meg Fisher, Mikaela Sykes, Jacklyn Honey, Courtney Gaze-Persson, Larissa Lewis, Soph Coleman, Charlotte Fisher, Sienna Orr, Amelia Morcom, Anita Krapivsky, Taz Elwin, Teagan Engelander, Sasha Holles, Abhi Vijayanandan, Izzy Lewis, Akeisha O'Neil and Eilam Harel.
This is the first women's premiership in the club's history. It will not be the last. Congratulations to them for their incredible achievement.
You may recall last year that Brighton Grammar School won the world STEM racing competition. I know it was a big moment in our nation's history. Congratulations to Team Lunar, the 'lunartics'—l-u-n-a-r-t-i-c-s—that went on to take the world prize.
This year Ad Astra from Brighton Grammar School is also reaching for the stars. As they head off to go to the world competitions, we congratulate the team manager, Gianlucca Stavros; the engineering director, Bill Wang; the CAM engineer, Reggie Cooke; the enterprise director, Marco Zu; the communications director, Jack Tan; and the CAD engineer, Thomas Zuang.
They have done an enormous amount of work to get their team to this point. The world Stem Racing competition is one that tests the entrepreneurial, scientific and engineering minds of the next generation, putting them towards a racing competition where they test their speed and the limits of human ingenuity. Last year, as I said, Brighton Grammar went on to win a world competition, and we wish that they may be able to do it again, because everybody loves back-to-back winners—particularly these young men who are doing so much to build a better scientific future and improve the lives of everyone.
Congratulations.