Peta Murphy (Dunkley, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Yes! To be fair to the member for Newcastle, as I understand it, that happened to basically every Labor member of that parliament at least once.

Sharon Claydon has served on more parliamentary committees than most of us have had hot dinners. Wait for this: the joint statutory Standing Committee on Public Works; the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade; the Joint Standing Committee on the Parliamentary Library; the Joint Select Committee on Oversight of the Implementation of Redress Related Recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse; the Joint Select Committee on Implementation of the National Redress Scheme, of which she was also deputy chair; the Joint Select Committee on Parliamentary Standards; the House Standing Committee on Appropriations and Administration; the House Standing Committee on Publications; the House Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs, of which she was also the deputy chair, and which I served on with her last term and can personally attest to her prodigious work ethic, her smart and empathetic questioning of witnesses and her respectful and collegiate approach to working with the chair, who showed the same approach, and members of the committee to produce reports with as much bipartisan content as possible; the House Standing Committee on Indigenous Affairs, twice; and the House Select Committee on Social Media and Online Safety. Have I missed any, Sharon? It makes me tired just reading out that list. She is a true parliamentarian and a servant of her community and this parliament.

Sharon Claydon is smart and she is decent. And, because she is genuinely respectful of others and is genuinely great company, she is both liked and respected across the political divide. I am incredibly proud that she asked me to nominate her as the Deputy Speaker, and I ask that the House support that nomination.

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