David Jull (Fadden, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

He did. He made a tremendous contribution to that council and we should be very thankful for the work that he did in reforming it.

Reference has also been made to his great love of the bush. We know the story of his difficulty at Brisbane Grammar School: he allegedly ran away from school, went bush and became a jackeroo. I suppose one of his most famous quotes in this place was about swimming ‘bare-arsed across the Condamine with Aborigines’. That is often quoted. He maintained a love of the bush, and in non-sitting periods he quite often went around and worked the country circuits to ‘keep his ticket’, as I think he used to say.

Of course, some of the stories of his work in the bush were also quite legendary. He was great friends with the late Bob Katter Sr, the father of the present member for Flinders. Old Bob Katter, as we used to call him—

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