Our Parliamentary hosts, distinguished guests, of whom there are indeed many, friends. Thank you to Ahmet Polat and his team at Affinity Intercultural Foundation for organising this year’s Friendship & Dialogue Iftar Dinner, which once again has brought together a wonderfully diverse cross-section of the community. As a mark of true ‘affinity’, Ahmet dubs all of us his ‘cousins’. We share this evening on the traditional lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation and I pay respects to elders past, present and emerging, and any First Nations people sharing this wonderful evening.