Luke Gosling (Solomon, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I rise to pay tribute to a mentor and a great Australian, Dr Simon Longstaff AO, who is the Executive Director of the Ethics Centre. He is an applied philosopher who began working in Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory and has kinship ties to the Anindilyakwa people. He is a profoundly influential academic. 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, to the centre of corporate Australia and more broadly. I saw its amazing work as a member of the 15th group of the Vincent Fairfax Fellowship, a great ethical leadership program, from which I graduated in 2010. I've spoken many times in this House on the need to rebuild the ethical infrastructure in our nation, and that's something that the Albanese government is proudly doing. Day by day, week by week, month by month, we're getting after it. I still draw inspiration from the time that I spent with the Ethics Centre and thank them for their tireless work and their groundbreaking work that is showing that, if we improve the ethical infrastructure of our nation by 10 per cent, we'll see a massive improvement in our economy.