President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca visited the Bi-Centenary Monument in Pendle Hill.

​This monument depicts the settlement history of Maltese in Australia, and shows the symbolic four arms of the eight-pointed Cross. On each arm of the eight-pointed Cross, a bronze plaque tells the story of Maltese leaving Malta to come to a far-away land, in order to provide a better future for their children, which Malta could not provide at that time, in spite of the fact that Malta exited the war with the highest honours, paying a heavy price for withstanding the enemy. This Bi-Centenary monument was erected in 1988 to commemorate the 200th year of colonial occupation in Australia.