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The Courier-Mail
2 October 1934
THE JOB OF BEING SPEAKER – IT USED TO BE A DANGEROUS OCCUPATION
By the HON. GEORGE POLLOCK, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly
YES! Anything to oblige!
The title ‘Mr. Speaker’- is very bewildering to the man who casually visits Parliament to learn at first hand what his local political hero Is doing to earn his salary.
A precocious schoolboy once said to me, ‘Why do they call you Mr. Speaker? You’re the only bloke who doesn’t speak.’ But the historian Knows!
The appellation originated with the first House of Commons. In those days Kings had the happy (?) knack of calling Parliament together only when they ran short of money. The supply may have been needed to pay the King’s Army and Navy, or per chance to buy a pair of fancied emerald and diamond earrings — with brooch and solitaire to match — for his