Mr Speaker, I rise today to honour the life and legacy of Dr Lucie Shanahan — a widely respected Indi healthcare executive, academic and public health leader whose contribution to the wellbeing of communities across Albury–Wodonga and our wider region was both substantial and enduring. 

Across her distinguished career at Albury Wodonga Health, Dr Shanahan held several senior positions, including Executive Director of Public Health, Mental Health and Wellbeing, and Chief Allied Health Officer.  

In every role she brought integrity, clarity of purpose and a deep commitment to equitable access to high-quality care. I had the great privilege of working with Dr Shanahan on finding solutions to the huge challenges we face locally to address eating disorders.  

I saw firsthand her leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic where at a time of profound uncertainty, she provided measured judgement, strategic foresight and genuine compassion.  

Dr Shanahan wrote her doctoral thesis on adolescents and brain injury — reflecting her lifelong concern for vulnerable young people and the families who support them. 

Her legacy endures in the public health strategies she shaped, the mental health services she strengthened and the allied health leadership she championed across our health system. 

To her partner Mark, her mother Ann, and her brothers Matt and Tim, and to all who mourn her passing,  I offer my sincere and heartfelt sympathy.  

Vale, Dr Shanahan.