Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has hailed retiring Senator Pat Dodson as “an amazing Yawuru man, an exquisite Australian, and a very good human being”.
In an announcement, Albanese mentioned the outgoing Western Australian senator – who cited the impression of his restoration from most cancers in his announcement simply earlier than – crammed him “with unhappiness, but additionally with gratitude”.
Pat Dodson with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.Credit score: James Brickwood
Right here is an excerpt of Albanese’s assertion about Dodson:
You’ll gladly comply with him into battle but he’s made it his life’s work to make peace. From the second he entered Parliament, he has made this place a greater one.
As a boy, he hid within the lengthy grass whereas the police and welfare officers took his mates.
But regardless of what will need to have been such a traumatic expertise as a toddler, he grew into the Father of Reconciliation – a determine of grace, dignity and inspiration.
The assertion later continues:
Patrick is such a beneficiant man. By seven years [as Senator] he has gifted each member of our Caucus his knowledge, his braveness, his fearless conviction and his everlasting good humour.
By the highly effective instance of his personal life, he has given so many people the present of a better sense of perspective.
There are few extra reassuring sights in Parliament Home than seeing Patrick and his hat coming down a hall in the direction of you.
If you’re in Pat’s presence you usually snicker, you at all times study and you are feeling your self stand taller.
On behalf of the Labor household he gained when he turned a Senator for Western Australia, I want Pat nothing however the perfect as he focuses on his personal well being.
He leaves Parliament with our thanks, and with our love.