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of recycling. Those members who, like me, get 35 600ml bottles of milk per week delivered to the door can attempt to do their bit for recycling by buying their milk, if not in the same quantities as I do, at least in those bottles.
United Nations Day
MR COLLAERY (10.02): Today is United Nations Day and I think it is appropriate and fitting that this Assembly acknowledge the fact that today we celebrate and record the great work of United Nations and its staff, some of whom are based in Canberra and form part of our community. In particular, I refer to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees here in Canberra and some affiliate sections of other UN offices.
Mr Speaker, I am sure all members of the Assembly know that Australia had an originating role in the establishment and the first sessions of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945. The great Australian, Dr H.V. Evatt, took part in that. If any member of the Assembly is so inclined next Sunday, he or she can go to Woden Valley cemetery and see a simple piece of black granite, the greatly neglected tombstone of Dr Evatt. On it is the simple and very moving inscription "Son of Australia". I think it is appropriate at this time, at a troubled time for the United Nations, both in its funding and in the proper exercise of its powers, that we recall what it grew out of and the great man who put so many of his good years into establishing it.
I will not detain the house any further, other than to record in the Hansard that this Assembly, among all the democratic and parliamentary assemblies of the world, wishes that organisation all success in every phase of its activities, particularly those devoted to world peace.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Assembly adjourned at 10.05 pm
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