Parliamentary Procedure

Visitors

The SPEAKER: Before we begin today I would like to welcome to parliament members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association, Aldinga chapter, which is in a wonderful electorate called Mawson. It is great to have you in here today. Of course, you are the guests of the Minister for Child Protection. On behalf of everyone in parliament, we would like to welcome you here.

I would also like to welcome former Premier Dean Brown. We have just had a little ceremony where we unveiled a wonderful portrait of former Premier Brown, which will hang in the Speaker's corridor. It is the latest in a series of portraits that has been commissioned by the parliament. It was a great pleasure to have you back here, Dean, with so many of your colleagues who were in parliament at the same time. Again, I want to place on the record the South Australian community's thanks for the great work you did as Premier and as a minister. The people in the electorate of Mawson who used to be in your electorate speak very highly of you and fondly of you. As I said in my speech at the ceremony, the greatest accolade you can have is people saying nothing but nice things about you, and that is all I ever hear.

I would also like to welcome two other very special guests. They are sitting next to their grandfather, Dean Brown. Lachlan and Michael, it is great to have you here in parliament. I hope you liked those scones, too, at the morning tea reception. It is great that you are not at school and that you are here, isn't it. You can stay as long as you want. Take the rest of the afternoon off, if you like!