Mr ABBOTT (Warringah—Prime Minister) (14:24): I move: That the House record its deep regret at the death on 7 January 2015 of the Honourable Keppel Earl Enderby, QC, former Attorney-General in the Whitlam government and Member for the Australian Capital Territory and Canberra, and place on record its appreciation of his service in this parliament, and tender its profound sympathy to his family. Much is made of the generation of Whitlam government ministers and the fact that they experienced years, if not decades, of frustration in the wilderness of opposition before entering government in 1972. But Kep Enderby was not one of them. Kep Enderby entered the parliament as the member for the Australian Capital Territory in June 1970, having had a successful and a fulfilling career in the law. Just 2½ years later he became a minister in the Whitlam government. He held various ministries and, for nine months was Attorney-General in the Whitlam government, serving until the dismissal in 1975. He was, as the member for the Australian Capital Territory and then the member for Canberra, as you would expect, a passionate advocate for the national capital. In his maiden speech he decried the inequality of residents of the ACT and those of the Northern Territory, because ACT residents had no representation in those days in the Senate. He fought for that representation throughout his time in the parliament. Kep Enderby introduced the Family Law Act, giving Australians no-fault divorce and setting up the Family Court. He also appreciated the challenges that Indigenous Australians faced during those times. When Senator Neville Bonner was told in a country pub in Victoria that he would not be served, Kep Enderby threatened prosecution. As Minister for the Capital Territory he was instrumental in the decriminalisation of homosexuality. As the minister for the territory he had a unique interest in that he was the member for Canberra and a local resident, as well as the minister. That, of course, was all to change in October 1973, when Gough Whitlam, the Prime Minister, called him to say that he would be moved to a new portfolio as part of a reshuffle the next day. Knowing that he had hours left in his treasured portfolio, apparently the minister and his staff worked through the night renaming 50 Canberra street names after left-wing poets, philosophers and revolutionary leaders from around the world. Luckily, his time in the parliament was short. He lost his seat in the 1975 landslide. Some said that he returned to the law after politics, but, in many respects, he never really left the law. In 1982 he was appointed a New South Wales Supreme Court judge. He served on the bench until 1992 and, from 1997 to 2000, he chaired the Serious Offenders Review Council. He had a full life before serving in this parliament. He was in the Royal Australian Air Force during the last year of the Second World War. He worked as a postman and studied law at Sydney University and did his master's at the London School of Economics. He won the New South Wales amateur golf championship in 1946 and the following year came third in the Australian Open. In 1951 he entered the British Open and came second in the amateur competition. He was a man of parts. He was a man of many talents. One of his passions was the Esperanto movement. He believed that if the world had one language it would lessen conflict. He was in fact president of the universal Esperanto movement during the late 1990s. I will not try to say anything in Esperanto. I have enough trouble with English, let alone Esperanto! But I certainly do extend the coalition's sympathy and the sympathy of this parliament to his wife of 50 years, Dot, and to his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.