Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, on indulgence and on behalf of the federal parliamentary Labor Party, I endorse the remarks made by the member for New England and by the Prime Minister on behalf of the government. Peter Andren is known to all of us in this place. Whatever our political disagreements may have been with him from time to time, all members would be united in this: he is a person of integrity, he is a person of great decency and he is a person who has always sought with courage and conviction to bring forth his views into this parliament. He has never been a person to have taken a backward step when it comes to those things to which he is deeply committed. As the Prime Minister has said on behalf of all of us in this place, we wish him and his family well in what will be a big battle ahead for him. Our thoughts and our prayers are with those who are near him and with Peter himself.

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