The PRESIDENT —In closing the debate, I would like to add just a few words of my own. It is always a disadvantage to speak last because most things have already been said. Of course, I support all of those things that have been said. I visited Israel in April this year as a guest…
Like all other members of the Senate, I wish to endorse the remarks of all senators in support of this motion. Last week I had the opportunity in my office late on Tuesday evening to watch live the funeral ceremony from Israel. No-one who watched that could have been other than completely moved by the…
I fully endorse the remarks that Senator Baume and other senators have just made. Those of us who are associated with the Jewish community in some minor way feel the enormous loss that is, of course, associated with this vile act. I, along with a number of my colleagues from both sides of this chamber…
Senator GARETH EVANS (Leader of the Government in the Senate) — I move: That the Senate — (1)expresses its deep regret at the death, on 4 November 1995, of Mr Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, (2)condemns the brutal act which took his life, (3)tenders its profound sympathy to his widow, Mrs Leah Rabin, the…
Sam Cohen was a fine Parliamentarian, lawyer, socialist, member of the Jewish community, husband and father, and all round gentleman. He was eloquent and persuasive in debate, and possessed among his many attributes that rare skill – especially rare, we Labor right-wingers would say, in a man of the left! – as a builder of…
