Thanks Deputy Speaker.

I rise to pay tribute to a mentor and a great Australian, Dr Simon Longstaff, the Executive Director of The Ethics Centre.

He is an applied philosopher who began working in Groote Eylandt and has kinship ties to the Anindilyakwa people.

Profoundly influential, as the businesswoman Carol Schwartz noted: ‘I don’t know one CEO or chairman in corporate Australia who has not worked with Simon Longstaff.’

In 1991, Simon joined the Ethics Centre, a not-for-profit that is bringing ethics to the centre of people’s lives.

I saw their amazing work first-hand as a member of the fifteenth group of the Vincent Fairfax Fellowship, an ethics leadership program, from which I graduated in 2010.

I have spoken many times in this House on the need to rebuild the ethical infrastructure of our nation, and that is something which the Albanese Government is proudly doing.

I still draw inspiration from the time I spent with the Ethics Centre and thank them for their tireless work, which includes thought leadership and Ethi-call, a helpline for ethical issues.

Thanks Deputy Speaker.