Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

On 18 February 2022, Senator Payne will become the longest-serving woman senator in Australian history. That eclipses the incredible record of Senator Tangney, who served for 9,080 days. Tomorrow, Senator Payne will also be the longest continuing serving member of this parliament. That is an extraordinary achievement and I think it is an enormous encouragement to all women of this country and young girls in this country. She has been a great servant of this parliament, a great servant of our party and a great servant of this government as Minister for Foreign Affairs, Minister for Defence and in many other roles. I commend her on this. She is now on her way to Europe to take part in the Indo-Pacific conference that is being held there. I congratulate her on her many achievements, I look forward to continuing to work with her in the important work she is doing as part of our government and I congratulate her.

Honourable members: Hear, hear!

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