Anne McEwen (SA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I, too, would like to extend my congratulations to you on your illustrious career in the Senate and on your sterling representation of the people of South Australia over that long period of time and for your excellent chairing when you were President and Deputy President. I would also like to thank you for our many chats on aeroplanes to and from Canberra. I have appreciated that very much. You were first coalition member I ever sat next to on the plane to Canberra, on my first trip. You were very kind to me then. I also remember that you told me on that day that it would not be too long before I would be a government senator, so thank you very much.