Page 3125 - Week 14 - Thursday, 7 December 1989

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States of America, that this Assembly record - or those members present at the moment record - that today is the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbour, the great historic event that precipitated the Pacific war. Mr Speaker, I am sure that all members of this house regard with chilling fear the possibility of that event happening again. The more than 3,000 casualties, just during that attack at 7.55 am on this day 48 years ago, should be remembered and recalled for being in place to guard democracy, which was being threatened in our region.

That day has gone down, of course, as a day of infamy. It is with increasing sadness that I record the knowledge that the world is still not free of warfare, still not free of persecution, torture and all those occurrences of mankind that many other people work so hard to free it from. Especially with the ex-servicemen in this house, I join in expressing again our great debt to the United States in the Second World War.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Assembly adjourned at 1.06 pm until Thursday, 14 December 1989, at 10.30 am

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