Ms Anna Burke (Chisholm, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My apologies, Madam Speaker. I was actually going to point out—and this is why I was stumbling over my words—that 'the Hon.' does not attach to former Speakers unless you go to the Governor-in-Council, so it is never attached to me. Whether that makes me honourable or not, I am not sure!

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