Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Order! I inform the House of the following deaths.

Leonard Joseph Keogh died on 10 October 2007; he represented the division of Bowman from 1969 to 1975 and 1983 to 1987. Dr Kenneth Lionel Fry died on 10 October 2007; he represented the division of Fraser from 1974 to 1984. Ms Helen Mayer died on 7 February 2008; she represented the division of Chisholm from 1983 to 1987. The Hon. Robert Lindsay Collins AO died on 21 September 2007; he was a former senator, who represented the Northern Territory from 1987 to 1998, and a minister. Mr Matt Price, the journalist, died on 25 November 2007. Mr Bernard Douglas (Bernie) Banton AM, a victim of asbestosis, mesothelioma and asbestos related pleural disease, died on 27 November 2007. The Hon. Sir Charles Walter Michael Court AK, KCMG, OBE, a former Premier of Western Australia, died on 22 December 2007. And Sir Edmund Percival Hillary KG, ONZ, KBE, New Zealand mountaineer and first-known climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest, died on 11 January 2008.

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