Glen Innes parklands opening

The Hon Barnaby Joyce and Mayor Rob Banham were on hand to help officially open the Glen Innes centennial parklands playground

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00:00Great day for Glen, and these amenities buildings have been in the works for about 10 years now, so it's a long time

00:05We finally got it under control and got it well with the help of the Australian Standing Stones Committee

00:10Management Board coming in to give us some ideas on what they wanted that would fit in

00:14With this area at Centennial Park here in the Standing Stones. Next year's Celtic Festival will come in handy

00:20It'll be really really handy. Yeah, the older ones will be handy. We always seem to have trouble

00:24We have to pump them out during the festival, but these are all new

00:27There's more toilets here, and it's great, and it's great for families to be here as well.

00:31It's so important that we understand all parts of our heritage, whether that is Aboriginal, whether that is Celtic, whether that's

00:39European, whether that's African, no matter where it is because it makes up who we are.

00:45I think that's really important about here is not only reflect on the past, but we understand just how lucky we are

00:51to be exactly where we are

00:53It is an incredible stroke of luck to be in Australia, an incredible stroke of luck to have the opportunities that we have

01:01So I'm hoping that all the facilities that we've got here

01:05give us both a recollection of the past and understanding the past, a

01:09respect for those and the sufferings that they've gone through so that we've got the opportunities we have and

01:14also an understanding of just how lucky we are

01:17in the path forward. Standing Stones Management Board, I'd like to acknowledge the members here today as well

01:23have certainly had a great collaboration with Council and we have

01:28representatives on our board from both Council employees and Council Law staff.