Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

on indulgence—I congratulate the minister on this initiative, something the coalition strongly supports. It's a very important area of public policy and we will lend our full support to it.

At the beginning of her remarks, the minister acknowledged the member for his service. As we're on the eve of Remembrance Day, I do want to say to all of the veterans in this place: thank you for your service—not just the member that was mentioned but also the members for Canning, Braddon, Herbert, Fadden, Menzies and Leichhardt, and those in the other place as well. To all of those veterans who will be commemorating Remembrance Day, and to all of those family members that treat this as a very significant day in their own lives given the history within their own families, it is important that we recognise their service to keep our country safe not just in generations past but for generations future as well.

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