It is with deep regret that I inform the Senate of the death on 28 August 2006 of the Hon. Donald Leslie Chipp AO, a senator for the state of Victoria from 1978 to 1986, a member of the House of Representatives for the divisions of Higinbotham and Hotham, Victoria, from 1960 to 1968 and 1969 to 1977 respectively, and at various times in that period a federal minister.