Mr ALBANESE (Grayndler—Prime Minister) (14:05): I move: That the House record its deep regret at the deaths on 13 April 2024 of Yixuan Cheng, Pikria Darchia, Ash Good, Dawn Singleton, Faraz Tahir and Jade Young, place on record its acknowledgement of their contributions to their communities, and tender its sympathy to their families in their bereavement. A month on from the shocking events at Bondi Junction Westfield, the distress has barely faded. The grief never will. It should have been just another Saturday, the unremarkable happiness of people going about their lives, shopping. That's so familiar, I think, to just about every Australian. Everything changed in just a few minutes that day—just a handful of minutes that changed so much forever. We mourn all those whose lives were wrenched from them so brutally and so pointlessly: Yixuan Cheng, an economics student; Pikria Darchia, an artist; Ash Good, an osteopath and new mum, whose final thoughts were for the safety of her baby, Harriet; Dawn Singleton, who was looking forward to her wedding; Faraz Tahir, the Westfield security guard whose funeral I attended, where I got such a poignant sense of the new life he was creating for himself here in Australia; and Jade Young, an architect and loving mother. We mourn for all the wonderful, rich possibility of life that was taken from them. And we mourn for all those whose lives will always feel the weight of loss, their every heartbeat tempered by a sorrow for what might have been, the parents who lost a son or daughter, a baby who will grow up knowing her mum only through photographs and the stories from her family, who are now holding her tight in love. I had the privilege of meeting her father, her grandfather and other members of the family at a private occasion recently, and it's beyond comprehension, the grief that they are dealing with. We mourn for those who lost their partners, their soulmates—love torn apart, plans shattered, futures robbed. As Elizabeth Young said in her eulogy for her daughter, Jade: 'Our lives have been fractured; there will be no back to normal. There is no normal for us now.' We think of the wounded. That Saturday in Bondi was a hinge on which their whole lives turned. We want them to know they are in our hearts. As are the shop workers. Amid the fear and the horror of what was unfolding, they somehow found within themselves a strength to be a source of calm to others. Many are still hurting, and I want them to know that they too are in the nation's hearts. They stepped up, as did others, like Faraz Tahir, who ran towards danger; Silas Despreaux and Damien Guerot, armed with just chairs and a bollard; and, of course, New South Wales police inspector Amy Scott, who so decisively and so courageously ran towards danger. Not knowing what she was going to confront there at Westfield, she ran by herself towards danger and brought this devastation to a final end. It was moving to see how many people at the vigil lined up to share a moment with her and express their gratitude and their admiration to the paramedics, ambulance people, police officers and emergency service workers who rushed to the scene as well to provide support to people. On the day after this tragedy, on the Sunday, when I travelled to Sydney to be there, along with the member for Wentworth, the New South Wales Premier and police ministers, the New South Wales member for Vaucluse, and others who were there to lay a floral tribute, it was really noticeable how many people there were there with yellow bibs on so they could be easily identified to provide mental health support for people who were there. The swiftness of the response, given the circumstances which were there, should forever give praise to the actions of our New South Wales Police, emergency service workers, health workers and others—those people who were called back onto shift to look after people at St Vincent's Hospital and other hospitals as well, and the security agencies who provided to me, here in this building, very swift and clear and accurate information about what had occurred, which, under the circumstances, was really quite remarkable. We can be proud of everyone who played a role that day and that, at the worst of times, we once again saw the best of the Australian character: remarkable acts of courage, remarkable acts of compassion, remarkable acts of love. I spoke with the member for Wentworth that night. It was a very difficult time, and I praise her for the work of a local member that no local member wants to engage with. It was very fine representation indeed of her local community at what was a very difficult time. If we have any small solace—and it's impossible, of course, to think that anything good comes from something like that—it is that humanity really stood tall on those days—and since, it must be said. May the survivors heal. May the people who are dealing with trauma and loss recover to the extent that they can. They will never be the same, of course, and that's something that they need to come to terms with. The nature of this attack means that there were many thousands of people in that shopping centre. I am familiar with it—it's not my part of Sydney, but just about everyone who has lived in Sydney has had reason to call in to go to the movies or to engage on the way to the beach, or to pick something up. It is a very large shopping centre there at Bondi Junction; the mall and the community there in Bondi Junction were packed the day after, and the tributes continue to be made. Today, we add our voice from our national parliament to those tributes, to show our respect for those whose lives were so pointlessly taken away, for the families and for those who are still doing it really tough. We say that we hope that those who were lost that day are able to rest in peace. Honourable members: Hear, hear!