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pomping from the past...Former clerk of the Senate Harry Evans says Mr Slipper should just get on with the job"You can't recreate a tradition once it's dead, and I think it was well and truly dead in Australia and has been well and truly dead for a number of years," he said. "Speaker (Billy) Snedden attempted to do this some years ago as well as wearing wig and gown, which non-Labor speakers had worn in the past. "He tried to have a Speaker's procession but it was mocked and ridiculed and I think even he gave it up - it was certainly well and truly given up when he left anyway. "You can't get respect by dressing up in fancy dress and having processions I'm afraid - it has to be earned in other ways, like really being impartial, which Australian speakers have notoriously not been in the past."
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