Welcome to New Citizens

24 October 2018

On the 10th of October I had the pleasure of attending the Lake Macquarie citizenship ceremony, and welcome the following new citizens to the electorate of Charlestown:

From the Phillipines I welcome The Cruz family and Mr Alfred Bacallan

From China I welcome Ms Hiu Mei Lee; and from Hong Kong I welcome Mr Freddie Ye Sheng

From Vietnam I welcome Mr Tuan Loi Luu

From Iraq I welcome the The Al-omary Family

From India I welcome Mrs Kavya Mayanamada and Mr Anand Dube

From South Africa I welcome The Duvenage family, The Van Rooyen Family, Mrs Liezel Esterhuysen, and Mr Rory Stone

From the United Kingdom I welcome Miss Alyssa & Leah Esterhuysen and Ms Rachel Thomas

From Canada I welcome Mr Kyle Davies and Ms Courtney Lemon

And finally, from neighbouring New Zealand, I am happy to welcome Ms Christina Nelson and Mr James Gordon

I wish our new citizens all the best, and welcome other future citizens to choose to settle in Charlestown.