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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)
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Small Business

The Hon. D.J. SPEIRS (Black—Minister for Environment and Water) (15:50): It gives me great pleasure to be able to stand up today and celebrate local business within my electorate. There is no doubt that the community I represent and the communities every member in this parliament represents are made up of lots of different individuals and groups. One group that is really worth celebrating, because it really is the glue that holds the community together, is small business.

My electorate, like many others, is made up of very many small businesses, many of them based in homes, garages, backyards and rumpus rooms, not necessarily in front-of-house shops or shopping centres. I think it is worth paying tribute to the great efforts made by people who put their homes and sometimes their families on the line to establish and build up their small businesses. Sometimes they forgo drawing a wage for many years in order to follow a passion and to make a commitment to invest in a small business with the hope that one day they might be able to establish a livelihood from doing what they love.

Today, I want to talk about the Hallett Cove Business Association, which is a great group, a representative body within my electorate representing the interests of local business. I also want to specifically talk about the Hallett Cove Business Association's annual business awards, which is that association's way of celebrating business within the Hallett Cove, Sheidow Park, Trott Park, O'Halloran Hill and Marino area—more or less the 5158 postcode.

The Hallett Cove Business Association's annual business awards were held in August this year. The Business of the Year this year was India House, a fantastic local restaurant based in the Hallett Cove shopping centre. India House is run by Nassir, Asra and Aman Syed. It is a great organisation and really the heartbeat of that shopping centre, providing service to that whole community. The family who run it are much loved. They are an absolutely integral part of the community, and they put their heart and soul into running that business and serving the Hallett Cove district. For them to win Business of the Year is a huge personal achievement. It is something in which they are taking great pride.

It was great to bring them into Parliament House last week to enjoy lunch with them and to celebrate what they give to our community through what is tremendous hard work. It is their livelihood, it is their business, but they give so much more to the wider Hallett Cove community. Not only did they win Business of the Year but they also won the hospitality award, which then qualified them to go into the run-off for business of the year.

I want to run through the other award winners today, including under commercial trades, Blue Air Solutions, a local air-conditioning company. The Commercial Trades Business Award was sponsored by PC Happy. The runner-up was Shovel and Spade Gardening Professionals. Under the Health, Beauty and Wellbeing category, we had joint winners: Polished Beautique and enerG+ Boxing and Pilates Studio—another two great Hallett Cove local businesses.

I already mentioned that the hospitality award was won by the much-loved India House. The runner-up, Hallett Cove Bakery, was last year's business of the year. Under outstanding customer service, we had PetZest Hallett Cove, sponsored by Gary's Maintenance Service, and the runner-up was ABODE of Beaute, yet another great local business showing outstanding customer service. In the professional services category is DIY Digital, a Marino-based business run by Fiona and Richard Blinco. The runner-up in that category was Company Hub. I actually had the pleasure of sponsoring the professional services award. Under retail, the winner was Wax Lyrical, which was sponsored by DIY Digital, and the runner-up was PetZest, Hallett Cove.

I want to give very significant and hearty congratulations to every one of those businesses who made the effort to be part of those awards and also for what they give to the Hallett Cove and districts community. They are not just jobs for people and they are not just people developing their own livelihoods—they are actually contributing to the great sense of community in the Hallett Cove district.

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