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- Title
CONDOLENCES
His Excellency Ranasinghe Premadasa, President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
- Database
Senate Hansard
- Date
04-05-1993
- Source
Senate
- Parl No.
37
- Electorate
SA
- Interjector
The PRESIDENT
- Page
49
- Party
AD
- Presenter
- Status
- Question No.
- Questioner
- Responder
- Speaker
Senator LEES
- Stage
- Type
- Context
Miscellaneous
- System Id
chamber/hansards/1993-05-04/0069
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Table Of Contents

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Hansard
- Start of Business
- OPENING OF THE PARLIAMENT
- REPRESENTATION OF VICTORIA
- SENATORS: SWEARING-IN
- REPRESENTATION OF AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY AND NORTHERN TERRITORY
- SENATORS: SWEARING-IN
- GOVERNOR GENERAL'S SPEECH
- GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S SPEECH
- MINISTERIAL ARRANGEMENTS
- GOVERNMENT: LEADERSHIP
- LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA: LEADERSHIP
- AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRATS: LEADERSHIP
- NATIONAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA: LEADERSHIP
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PRIVILEGE
- Statement by President
- Notices of Motion
- REPRESENTATION OF VICTORIA
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NOTICES OF MOTION
- Rural Crisis
- Superannuation Committee
- Wool
- Superannuation Committee
- Drought
- Employment, Education and Training Committee
- Wool
- Bender's Quarry
- Australian Loan Council Committee
- Governor-General's Speech
- Heart Disease
- Balance of Payments
- Community Standards Committee
- Airports: Car Rentals
- Committees
- ARREST OF SENATOR
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DOCUMENTS
- Tabling
- Auditor-General's Reports
- The Senate
- ASSENT TO LAWS
- DOCUMENTS
- COMMITTEES
- JOINT HOUSE DEPARTMENT
- BILLS RETURNED FROM THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- CONDOLENCES
- ADJOURNMENT
- DOCUMENTS
- GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S PROCLAMATIONS--COMMENCEMENT OF ACTS AND PROVISIONS OF ACTS
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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
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Aboriginal Legal Service
(Senator Walsh, Senator Collins) -
Government Tenders
(Senator Vanstone, Senator Robert Ray) -
Cyclodiene Insecticides
(Senator Coulter, Senator Tate) -
Motor Vehicle Engines
(Senator Campbell, Senator Button) -
Nursing Homes
(Senator Newman, Senator Tate) -
SHAPE Program
(Senator Walsh, Senator Tate) -
Christmas Island: Chinese Nationals
(Senator Spindler, Senator Bolkus) -
Cairns Customs House
(Senator Ian Macdonald, Senator Collins) -
National Health and Medical Research Council
(Senator Coulter, Senator Tate) -
Australian Government Bookshops
(Senator Walsh, Senator Bolkus) -
Child-Care
(Senator Walsh, Senator Tate) -
Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce: Ministerial Equipment and Facilities
(Senator Ferguson, Senator Button) -
Department of Finance: Ministerial Equipment and Facilities
(Senator Ferguson, Senator Button) -
Department of Transport and Communications: Ministerial Equipment and Facilities
(Senator Ferguson, Senator Collins) -
Department of Administrative Services: Ministerial Equipment and Facilities
(Senator Ferguson, Senator McMullan) -
Federal Airports Corporation: Rates
(Senator MacGibbon, Senator Cook) -
Members of Parliament: Folding Machines
(Senator Panizza, Senator Bolkus) -
Magnetic Quays Development
(Senator Coulter, Senator Collins) -
Shoalwater Bay
(Senator Ian Macdonald, Senator Button) -
Shoalwater Bay
(Senator Ian Macdonald, Senator Cook) -
Shoalwater Bay
(Senator Ian Macdonald, Senator Robert Ray) -
Shoalwater Bay
(Senator Ian Macdonald, Senator Bolkus) -
Shoalwater Bay
(Senator Ian Macdonald, Senator Bolkus) -
Aborigines: Mornington Island
(Senator O'Chee, Senator Collins) -
Industry, Technology and Commerce: Trade Union Funding
(Senator Short, Senator Button) -
Employment, Education and Training: Trade Union Funding
(Senator Short, Senator Robert Ray) -
Transport and Communications: Trade Union Funding
(Senator Short, Senator Collins) -
Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs: Trade Union Funding
(Senator Short, Senator Bolkus) -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs: Trade Union Funding
(Senator Short, Senator Collins) -
Parliament House: Compensation for Accidents
(Senator MacGibbon, The President) -
Court Martials
(Senator MacGibbon, Senator Robert Ray) -
Industry, Technology and Commerce: Advertising Campaigns
(Senator Short, Senator Button) -
Finance: Advertising Campaigns
(Senator Short, Senator Button) -
Transport and Communications: Advertising Campaigns
(Senator Short, Senator Collins) -
Defence: Advertising Campaign
(Senator Short, Senator Robert Ray) -
Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs: Advertising Campaigns
(Senator Short, Senator Bolkus) -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs: Advertising Campaigns
(Senator Short, Senator Collins) -
Committees and Councils
(Senator Alston, Senator Schacht) -
Housing, Local Government and Community Services: Media Releases
(Senator Alston, Senator Richardson) -
Finance: Media Releases
(Senator Alston, Senator McMullan) -
Environment, Sport and Territories: Media Releases
(Senator Alston, Senator Schacht) -
Industry, Technology and Regional Development: Media Releases
(Senator Alston, Senator Schacht) -
Scherger Air Force Base
(Senator O'Chee, Senator Robert Ray)
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Aboriginal Legal Service
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Tuesday, 4 May 1993
Page: 49
Page: 49
Senator LEES (Deputy Leader of the Australian Democrats)
—I support the condolence motion on behalf of the Australian Democrats and, in doing so, deplore the violent and brutal way in which Sri Lanka's President Premadasa was assassinated a week ago. Last week the world witnessed yet another tragic episode in Sri Lanka's recent turbulent history. A total of 18 people, including the President and his bodyguards, were senselessly killed when a man set off explosives strapped to his body after barging into the President's entourage. All of them were victims of this mindless violence.
The assassination represents a personal loss to the Premadasa family, but it also represents a loss, in a very real sense, to the people of Sri Lanka. In many ways, his death is also a great political loss, as the ensuing aftermath challenges the maturity of the democratic processes of Sri Lanka and looks very closely at its political institutions.
President Premadasa represented the unique benefits which a strong democracy can bring to any nation, having himself risen from an impoverished family background through the labour movement to the highest political office in his country. Premadasa was President of Sri Lanka for a little over five years and, despite ongoing interracial violence of varying degrees, it must be said that he presided during a period of some considerable economic stability. It is most regrettable, however, that during his presidency a solution to the ongoing racial conflict was not found.
The Democrats wish to join with the Government and the Opposition in expressing their deep sympathy to President Premadasa's immediate family and express the hope that peace and security may soon return to Sri Lanka.
Question resolved in the affirmative, honourable senators standing in their places.