Kevin Andrews (Menzies, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for Hughes. May I just add briefly my comments of condolence to the family of the late President Bush? I was here in this parliament in early 1992 when President George HW Bush addressed the parliament. It was the first formal instituted sitting of parliament in which a visitor such of his stature addressed the parliament. There had been previous occasions, going back over the decades, where others had addressed the parliament, but this was first time that it was formally constituted on that occasion, and so it was a great occasion.

I won't repeat the words, but I join with the comments of many other honourable members in relation to the late President Bush. As his son George W Bush put it:

The mission was not George H. W. Bush, the mission was: how do we serve the United States? How do we help the United States? How do we make the United States better? Which is very important in establishing a culture that can succeed.

I think those words are memorable, they are very true and we can apply them to ourselves and to this country as well. May he rest in peace.

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