Page 4852 - Week 15 - Thursday, 8 December 1994
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Valedictory
MR STEVENSON (5.31): Madam Speaker, this will be my last speech in this house after six years. I want to thank members for their support over the six years.
Mr Moore: On both occasions?
MR STEVENSON: Yes, on both occasions. Since Mr Cornwell moved that one person not be able to call for a division, there have been a lot fewer 16-1 votes. It requires two. If I had had two members it would have required three; if I had had three it would have required four; and so on. I can understand that it is a bit of a nuisance having someone come along and have recorded how you vote on different issues. You handled that very nicely. I did not really appreciate it at the time, but that is fine. We had our last 16-1 vote a little while ago.
It was like a time when I was in the Army and a sergeant showed me a photograph of our battalion. He said, "I want to congratulate you on being the only one in the battalion that was in step". He had a photograph and apparently everyone else was out of step. But I think it is a little bit different in this situation. I think that politicians within political parties are brought up in a particular way. The majority of members in our parliament and in parliaments around Australia believe that they are going to do wonderful things for the community when they first start.
Mr Wood: Ha, ha!
MR STEVENSON: Bill Wood probably does not believe that. It is nice of you to acknowledge it, Bill. I think you do as well.
Mr Wood: I what?
MR STEVENSON: I think you do as well.
Mr Wood: Do what?
MR STEVENSON: Bill, read it in Hansard tomorrow.
Mr De Domenico: Ask your staff, Bill. They will tell you.
MR STEVENSON: Yes, ask your staff. If it is important, they will give you a note.
Mr Wood: Dennis, we will have another night out together one day.
MR STEVENSON: Let us have a night out together one night, or a day out together one day.
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