Warren Snowdon (Lingiari, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia and Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

This is where we all do end up. It is like the church; we all come back. Maybe not! But ultimately it showed us—and I think it has been demonstrated in the way in which people have contributed to this discussion—that whatever he may have been to each and every one of us, what he left us with was a great number of achievements, and we give him the respect that he deserves as someone who showed the way for so many of us. If, at the end of our own life’s journey, we can look back and say that we were able to bring as many people along with us as he did with him, we will have been a great success.

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