Ms GILLARD (Lalor—Prime Minister) (14:08): I move: That the House record its deep regret at the death on 31 March 2012, of Senator Judith Anne Adams, Senator for Western Australia, and place on record its appreciation of her public service, and tender its profound sympathy to her family in their bereavement. Senator Judith Adams was a woman of rare courage. She was elected to the Senate in 2004 and again in 2010, and spent seven years in the service of her party and her state in that place. What made her public service all the more remarkable is that Judith Adams was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998. Senator Kroger's moving obituary to her colleague and friend described Judith Adams's life in recent years as: … a decade of battling, managing and living with cancer … In every sense these were years spent living, not dying. Sadly, those years finally ended on 31 March, in the company of her family. Senator Adams had friends across the aisle, and her loss is keenly felt by her colleagues of all political persuasions. Others in the House knew her much more closely than I did and will speak with great feeling today, as they should. But I speak for the government of Australia when I say to Judith's friends here and elsewhere that we are sorry for your loss. Judith Adams was a midwife and she was a nurse; a wife and mother; a woman of the land and advocate for the regions; and a senator for the West. And she was a brave Australian woman who battled, managed and lived with cancer, and whose contribution to public life through all those years must inspire the tens of thousands of other Australian women who are living with breast cancer today. It was reported that at Judith Adams's funeral, former MP Wilson Tuckey delivered a eulogy saying that she had arrived in the O'Connor electorate with such little fanfare that he could not exactly recall when it was. Perhaps that is so, but the hundreds of mourners who honoured Judith Adams will certainly remember when she left them, and so will all members of this House. On behalf of the government I offer my condolences to Judith's sons, Stuart and Robert, her wider family and her friends.