Comrades,
I noted that Lady Florence Bjelke-Petersen shuffled off yesterday at 97, due to complications of old age....in a Kingaroy nursing home, where she had resided for the past three years.
She was appointed once to the Senate, and then elected twice as a Senator for Queensland, doing a full 12 years in Canberra after the wheels fell off the "Joh for Canberra" bandwagon back in '87, however, I cannot for the life of me recall her ever speaking on the floor of the Chamber.
Undoubtedly, she did her finest work in the Domestic Sciences.
Flo was a well-respected published author, penning three run-away best sellers "Classic Country Baking", "Classic Country Cooking", and "Classic Country Wisdom: Traditional Household Tips", which after her retirement from the Senate was collated into a single-volume lavishly illustrated coffee table tome "Classic Country Collection" [448pp, 1995], which sold more than 70,000+ copies alone...as Sir Joh would have said "don't you worry about that".
So, for old time's sake and in memory of the old bat, I give you...
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