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Monday, 28 June 1999
Page: 7657


Mr BROUGH (10:55 PM) —I would like to join with the comments of the opposition spokesman, and also with the member for Moreton's reflections on Senator David MacGibbon, who has been a great Queenslander and a great Liberal.

Tonight I want to address my remarks to one of my constituents, Mr Gary Parsons. Gary has been running around Australia, leaving on Anzac Day from Brisbane. I wish to report to this parliament that today he has crossed the Western Australia-Northern Territory border having been to Townsville, through to Mount Isa and Tennant Creek, then up to Darwin and back down to Tennant Creek and now into Western Australia. He is some 10 days ahead of the world record held by another Longman local. He also took four days off the Northern Territory Long Run Record. He is running for Legacy. I would ask all of those people out there who are listening to this broadcast: as you see Gary Parsons run past your house, please give generously to a great Australian who is supporting an incredibly good cause and a man with an enormous amount of guts and determination who, I am quite sure, will put his name in the record books as being the world's greatest long distance runner.