Ewen Jones (Herbert, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy Speaker Hawke, it is a little fortuitous that I rise to speak on the death of Albert John Schultz in the presence of you and the member for Hughes, as we all used to sit as quiet as church mice, at the back over there, side by side behind one Albert John Schultz. A lot will be said about Alby Schultz—that he was rough and tough, that he knew what he wanted, that he was fire and brimstone and all that. But he knew this place, and he could pick things before anyone else could. You would be sitting there and someone at the dispatch box on the government side would say something, and Alby would say: 'Watch Joel. He's going to go and talk to Laurie Ferguson. And then he is going to have to talk to Chris Hayes because this is what has happened'—he would be able to tell you exactly what was going on. And then Joel Fitzgibbon, member for Hunter and Chief Government Whip, would get up and do exactly those things. We would watch those things happen and we would sit back in awe.

A story I will forever tell about Alby Schultz is that I was the first member of the class of 2010 who was mentioned, warned and then punted by the then Speaker, Harry Jenkins—and it was Alby's fault. Soon after the election, Alby was in question time and I had been warned for interjecting. I said something that you, Mr Deputy Speaker, had told me to yell out, I am pretty sure—certainly it would not have been up to me!—

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