Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Climate Action, Environment and Heritage) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

On indulgence and in relation to sporting events, I notify the House that a former member of this House, Pat Farmer, is within 48 hours of reaching the equator on his run from the North Pole. He would have travelled about 13½ thousand kilometres. According to his web tracker, he is 0.8251 degrees from the equator. He is about 91 kilometres away and he is travelling at 40 kilometres an hour, according to the tracker, which even for Pat is fast!

Honourable Members:

Honourable members interjecting—

Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Climate Action, Environment and Heritage) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

He is obviously off to a function! On behalf of the House, I wish him well, congratulate him and hope that all sides can applaud this achievement today.

Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

On behalf of the government, all of our best wishes go to Pat Farmer. And whatever the speed he is travelling, what a remarkable achievement to literally run halfway around the world. It is an incredible effort. I send our very best wishes to Pat as he completes this very small bit of such a huge journey.