On the first day of the new parliament after Tasmania's 1998 state election, new and returning members were too excited to notice one person enter the House of Assembly with a strange object tucked under her arm.
The buzz of chatter abruptly turned into gasps when lone Greens MP Peg Putt unfolded a flimsy camp chair and plonked it into the gap between the government and opposition benches, and sat down.
