Mr PALLAS (Tarneit) — On Saturday I attended the Bengali Durga Puja Festival, hosted by the Bengali Society of Melbourne and held over two days last weekend. This is  a festival that has been held unbroken by  the  Bengali  communities of both India and Bangladesh for  the last 300 years and  is a time for celebration and family reunion for the whole community. The festival was held in the western suburbs of Melbourne  for  the first time in its history in acknowledgement of the  growing Bengali community in this area and  was on a larger scale than it  ever has been before. The festival involved — —

See Tim’s speech in Hansard here.