Peter Slipper (Fisher, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Reid is more fortunate than I was because my music teacher told me she did not want to see me anymore because of the lack of quality of my music. I would like to say that a very good friend of mine at Red Hill, Mrs Margaret Kelly, who was a good friend of Dame Joan’s, told me how humble Dame Joan was, which of course verifies what the member for Reid has just said. She would run into her in Canberra in a department store and she would say, ‘Hi, remember me, I’m Joan Bonynge.’ She never used her title or anything like that. I think that she was a wonderful Australian and it is so sad that we have lost her.

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