House of Assembly - Fifty-First Parliament, Second Session (51-2)
2008-03-05 Daily Xml

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BUTLER, SIR RICHARD

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL (Cheltenham—Minister for Families and Communities, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation, Minister for Housing, Minister for Ageing, Minister for Disability, Minister Assisting the Premier in Cabinet Business and Public Sector Management) (15:19): I seek leave to make a personal explanation.

Leave granted.

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL: Yesterday in a contribution to the house I described the architect of the Housing Trust as Sir Richard Butler, and that in fact is true, but I was helped on by a helpful interjection to say that he looks down on us, and I happily agreed with that. But, of course, we are looked down on not by Sir Richard Butler, the architect of the Housing Trust, but in fact his father, Sir Richard Butler the first. This has all been happily brought to my attention by the federal member for Port Adelaide, who happens to be the great-great-grandson of Sir Richard Butler. He wanted me to come into this house and correct the record, lest I had incorrectly attributed that responsibility to his great-great-grandfather instead of his great-grandfather.