Russell Broadbent (McMillan, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

He could have been; that is right. If I ever make Book Week, I will probably be in more trouble. There I am at Book Week and I am just surrounded by these fantastic kids and all the work that their mums and dads and grandparents have put into their outfits. There were spiders and all sorts of people that I did not even know about, because I do not see a lot of children’s books anymore. I would like to thank Mem Fox for sending me hers with a note on it.

I am looking at all these kids and thinking, ‘What am I going to say? What can a federal member say when there is so much colour in the room and so much is going on?’ After I had introduced myself to Harry Potter for the first time, I tried to recognise who the other people were, but it had to be explained to me who they were. Here we were at Bunyip Primary School and all these great things were happening. They took me into the library and showed me where they had spent the $50,000. They had done a great job on their library. And what impressed me even more than the job they did on their library was the way that the students showed me around the library. They were so proud of their new library. It was really their place. The two school captains took me there. I went from there and we had morning tea. I had morning tea with the Queen of Hearts. She had changed into the normal clothes she wore for teaching.

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