Tuesday, 18 August 2026

House of Representatives

Mr Tim Wilson:

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, 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.