No time for the Hansard reporters to pick up their chisels.

Walsh regularly had journalists, Hansard reporters, and political ally and foe alike bewildered by his statements.

Members' shouts escalated from "liars" to "treacherous liars" and many cruder epithets that Hansard reporters chose to ignore.

There is a popular misconception that "fuddle duddle" was coined as a euphemism by the Hansard reporter who prepared the official transcript of Trudeau's words for that parliamentary session.

He was born in Tavua and taught in a number of primary and high schools then worked as a hansard reporter and later as a diplomat in Australia and England before starting his political career.

Born in Frankfurt am Main in Germany, he migrated to Australia as a child and was educated at state schools in Toowoomba before becoming a Hansard reporter, a journalist and the proprietor of the Gympie Times.

Terrence Higgins' legacy, 30 years after death By Neil Prior, BBC News Wales He lived in London and worked as a Hansard reporter in the House of Commons and as a barman in the nightclub Heaven.