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House of Assembly - Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)
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MORIALTA CITIZENSHIP AWARDS

Mr GARDNER (Morialta) (15:21): It gives me great pleasure today to comment on the work of students in the electorate of Morialta who have won Morialta Citizenship Awards in the 2012 year. The Morialta Citizenship Award is an award that has been offered in the two local public high schools for many years by successive members for Morialta. When I became the member for Morialta in 2010, I thought it would be a good idea to extend that award to all of the public, independent and Catholic schools in the electorate, both primary and higher levels.

I am proud to say that seven schools this year have participated and 11 winners have been awarded with the presentation of a certificate and a book voucher, and acknowledgement in this place. I will go through them. At Norwood Morialta High School, the year 12 awardee of the Morialta Citizenship Award was Ethan Levy. He participated in the Youth Parliament and the state's schools constitutional convention last year. He attended the United Nations youth state conference and he mentored the year 11 Youth Parliament team. After the award, he came into Parliament House late last year to observe debate, and I can tell you he is a very intelligent young man who is going to go far. The year 10 winner at Norwood Morialta High School was Annalisa Russo, who was a fantastic and active contributor to the school, giving without asking in return.

At Rostrevor College, the 2012 Morialta Citizenship Award winner was Angelo Varricchio. He served as a prefect and as a mentor for younger students. He assisted in the learning centre, providing support and friendship for students with special needs. He was a great sports competitor and received numerous academic awards. At Saint Ignatius College, the Morialta Citizenship Award was awarded to a year 7 last year, Claudia Floriani. She is a member of the school's social justice group. She attended the Caritas Just Leadership Day and the World Vision Global Leaders Convention. She gathered signatures for the fair trade chocolate campaign and assisted with Reconciliation Week and the 'Turning Christmas Upside Down' display, which I am sure was a fantastic boon to the school community, who enjoyed the time of seeing that display.

I always enjoy visiting the Thorndon Park Primary School; it is a terrific small school community. The winner there was Victoria Bagnara. I remember that at that assembly Victoria seemed to win about half the awards on offer for academic achievement and community service. She is a very worthy winner of the Morialta Citizenship Award. She volunteered for many school and community events, including mother's and father's day breakfasts, and the family fun day where she spent the whole day setting up, cleaning and supporting visitors.

At the Stradbroke schools, three winners were awarded last year: Cameron Young, Adelle Martin and Tiarna Bertram. All three students consistently supported the student program throughout the year and contributed to the wellbeing of the community. While I was at the Stradbroke school end-of-year presentations last year, I also took the opportunity to comment, as I have done previously, on the magnificent contribution of former principal Cathy Wilson and assistant principal Aldo Perilli, who unfortunately had to finish their service at Stradbroke owing to the government's forced amalgamation of the two Stradbroke schools and those positions no longer being available.

The seventh set, from Norton Summit Primary School, was Erica Brawley and Joanna Fearnley. Both girls consistently were observed doing kind deeds for others in their own time during last year, picking up litter in their playtime, tidying the library and assisting younger children. The eighth set was at Sunrise Christian School Paradise campus, and that is young Mason Manning, who, in year 4, entered the City to Bay Fun Run last year to raise money and support his friend Dylan who has autoimmune hepatitis. He ran most of the way, raising a significant amount of money and also, particularly, awareness amongst his student cohort and local community of the significant challenges Dylan faces with his autoimmune hepatitis.

I would particularly like to thank the school communities that were invited to nominate a student to win a Morialta Citizenship Award. I look forward to the increasing growth of this award across my local schools. I think it is a terrific way to acknowledge those who have gone a bit above and beyond and contributed without asking for anything in return. I think they make standout contributions that are to be observed by their fellow students and that they are models for those fellow students to take notice of. Therefore, we pay them the tribute of acknowledging them in front of their peers and in this house today as examples of everything that we would like our young students to achieve in life and to be good citizens. I commend to the house the Morialta Citizenship Award winners for 2012.

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