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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 14 Hansard (11 December) . . Page.. 5050 ..

MR WHITECROSS (continuing):

that we should love and respect all people we come in contact with as equals for their humanity, as people made in the image of God; that we should take that love and use that as the motivation to act with justice at all times towards all people; and that, in all things that we do, we should walk humbly before our God because we are all required to try to strive for the divine even though we all, in our ways, are very imperfect. Mr Speaker, I think that is the important thing for us to reflect on every day in this place, especially as we approach the Christmas season.

MS TUCKER (11.21) I seek leave to make one short comment.

Leave granted.

MS TUCKER: I want to say thank you to my colleague Lucy Horodny. I believe she is a woman who has shown incredible courage over the last three years.

Ms Horodny: Don't make me cry.

MS TUCKER: I cannot make her cry. She has displayed great courage over the last three years. We were thrown into those two offices and they were empty. The way she has worked through that time and has supported me is something that I am very grateful for. I just wanted to get that on the record.

MS HORODNY (11.21): It has been a really great time for me in this Assembly. There has been lots of stress, lots of drama and lots of panic. I do not know how I will survive at home for a year. I have a few more wrinkles and a few grey hairs. I have lost weight. I think I am even going bald.

Ms Tucker: But it was fun, was it?

MS HORODNY: But it was fun. I loved it.

Mr Osborne: How did you lose the weight? Tell me how you did that.

MS HORODNY: I did; I lost weight. I cannot read my own writing. Yes, I want to say that I am taking a year off from my working life. I have been in hectic jobs for the last eight years and I want to stay at home and spend time with my precious little girl. It is interesting that when I first got back from Ethiopia I got a few congratulatory cards from various people in the community as well as my friends and family of course. One of the cards that I got from someone in the media said, "Congratulations, Lucy, and good luck because parenting is the greatest leadership challenge you will ever face". I thought that was very true. So, yes, I am being promoted to a much more difficult job, and I am looking forward to it.

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