History and tradition are important. They are important for political parties, they are important for the remembrance of our national heroes and they are important for planning our future. I could be provocative here and talk about preselections and how the going rate for preselection seems to be about $250,000, but I will leave that for another time.

I want to talk about the remembrance of our national heroes and about planning for our future. If I asked the chamber, ‘Who is the Father of the Royal Australian Navy?’ could anyone tell me who it is?