Mr FLETCHER (Bradfield—Manager of Opposition Business) (09:04): I am very pleased on behalf of the Liberal-National coalition to join in this tribute to an acknowledgement of Judith Durham, an outstanding Australian. I do want to acknowledge the serendipitous fact that the Leader of the House is also the Minister for the Arts, and so therefore we can appropriately acknowledge an outstanding and iconic Australians like Judith Durham here in our national parliament. Judith Durham was a strong, accomplished Australian woman who made a huge global impact at a time of considerable social change and of growing Australian self-confidence. Together with the other members of the Seekers—Athol Guy, Bruce Woodley and Keith Potger—she achieved an unprecedented level of sales success for an Australian musician. The outpouring of popularity and of national pride that the success of the Seekers triggered is powerfully evidenced by the fact that their 12 March 1967 performance at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne was attended by over 200,000 people, reportedly close to 10 per cent of all people living in Melbourne at the time. Their TV special The Seekers Down Under scored the biggest TV audience ever, with an unheard of rating of 67, and they were announced early in 1968 as the Australians of the Year. Of course, that came shortly before Judith Durham announced that she would be leaving the Seekers and commencing a solo career. Of course, in later years there were some collective performances but she was largely a solo performer subsequent to that. And her achievements have rightly been recognised over the decades. The Seekers were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 1995; Judith was named Victorian of the Year in 2015 for her services to music and to a range of charities; and she and her bandmates were appointed Officers of the Order of Australia in 2014. It is interesting to look at some of the features of her distinctive success. Her voice was very widely praised for its purity. She had significant classical music training; she had a qualification of Associate in Music in classical piano from the University of Melbourne Conservatorium—an interesting parallel with more contemporary musicians, such as Kate Miller-Heidke, who bring very strong classical music training to extraordinary popular success. The significance of Judith Durham and the Seekers to the growth of our national self-awareness and self-consciousness in the 1960s, I think, cannot be overstated. To have an Australian band with 'Georgy Girl' doing so well globally and 'I'll Never Find Another You' reaching No. 1 in the UK—and of course similarly in Australia—was something that Australians at the time took great pride in and that Australians today continue to take pride in. I think that, obviously, while the loss of Judith Durham is a great national loss, the renewed attention it has brought to her extraordinary achievements and those of the Seekers is noteworthy. The lyrics of 'I'll Never Find Another You' start with: There's a new world somewhere They call the promised land And I'll be there someday In politics it's often said that we campaign in poetry and we govern in prose, and I think those lyrics contain some inspiration for politicians. Can I, on behalf of the Liberal-National coalition, express our celebration of the achievements and life of Judith Durham and our condolences to her friends and family.