Michael Danby (Melbourne Ports, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

I will speak briefly on Les Murray until the minister who was meant to be here at 12 o'clock shows up. I am sure the government will see that he gets his skates on. Les Murray comes from a wonderful tradition of Hungarian immigrants to Australia. I was happy, and fortunate, to be part of that subculture, not through my own family but through family friends—the dear departed Stephen and Magda Curtis. We watched soccer; we enjoyed it. Les Murray was a great figure who all of the Hungarian-Australian community admired, including the family friends who I grew up with. This is a chance for me to remember my dear family friends, Stephen and Magda Curtis, who came from the same great contributing tradition of refugees from the Hungarian revolution that Les Murray came from.

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