Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Very quickly, I'd like to pay my respects to Bozzie and contribute, in a couple of minutes, some fond memories I have of Ron Boswell. When I first came here in 2005, sitting right opposite there was Bozzie, right in the corner like a happy Buddha. He owned that corner, and he owned everyone around him, and I must say it was a pleasure to serve with Bozzie for nine years, until he pulled up stumps in 2014.

But I have two very quick memories of Bozzie. When I was brand new and we all got the call, you had to go to Government House—remember when you were brand new and you dutifully got in the car and you all piled over there, thinking, 'What the hell am I doing here?' But I did it, and as I pulled up out the front, I got out of the car with former senator Hutchins, another dear friend, and he said, 'Follow me.' We walked in and there were some lovely young people in Army uniforms and Navy uniforms and Air Force uniforms. They were serving little bits of food—