James Stevens (Sturt, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I rise to welcome a development at the Adelaide City Council to progress the important effort of having Harry 'Breaker' Morant properly recognised on the Boer War memorial on North Terrace in your electorate, Deputy Speaker Georganas, of Adelaide. Breaker Morant enlisted in the South Australian Mounted Rifles and served in the Boer War. He was then recruited into the Bushveldt Carbineers, and many people are aware of the story, which was immortalised in a novel and a film. I don't in any way suggest that that is the correct history of Breaker Morant. Nonetheless, regardless of the fact that, yes, he was court-martialled and executed and there is some disputed history around that, the reality is that he beyond question served the colony, as it was then, of South Australia and he should be recognised on that monument on North Terrace. The city council are no longer standing in the way of that. They're recommending that the state planning authorities resolve that. I think that it's extremely appropriate that he's recognised on that monument, and I look forward to that decision being made in the near future.