Rod Sawford (Port Adelaide, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

History and tradition are important. They are important for political parties, they are important for the remembrance of our national heroes and they are important for planning our future. I could be provocative here and talk about preselections and how the going rate for preselection seems to be about $250,000, but I will leave that for another time.

I want to talk about the remembrance of our national heroes and about planning for our future. If I asked the chamber, ‘Who is the Father of the Royal Australian Navy?’ could anyone tell me who it is?

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