Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—I move:

That the Senate records its deep regret at the death, on 13 September 2011, of the Hon. David Francis Jull, former Member for Bowman and Fadden, and places on record its appreciation of his long and meritorious public service and tenders its profound sympathy to his family in their bereavement.

I have had to speak on a number of condolence motions in this place, and it is sometimes quite difficult to do when you did not know the person. But I had the pleasure of knowing David Jull—not well, but I knew that he was a very personable and interesting man. I know that, as well as his old Liberal colleagues, a lot of Labor members were very fond of him. So there is a much stronger personal connection with David Jull for many senators in the chamber. I know everyone was shocked and terribly saddened to hear of his passing.

David Jull was born in Kingaroy, Queensland, on 4 October 1944. After being educated at the University of Queensland, he had his first career in broadcasting—which I did not know—as a presenter on radio and television from 1963 to 1965.