Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—I move:

That the Senate record its deep regret at the death, on 16 March 2009, of Corporal Mathew Hopkins, while on combat operations in Afghanistan, and place on record its appreciation of his service to his country, and tender its profound sympathy to his family and his colleagues in their bereavement.

Question agreed to, honourable senators standing in their places.