Luke Simpkins (Cowan, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I have had the pleasure of being in Barrington, and it is a most excellent part of the country. To know that someone of such significance in this country’s history has come from such a pretty place—but not exactly the biggest place—is another one of those great examples of how someone’s background possibly contributes to the effort that they put in.

We have had a number of references tonight to what Teddy Sheean did. With his corvette, the Armidale, having been torpedoed twice—and I understand it received a bomb blast as well—he strapped himself to the aft Oerlikon machine-gun and continued that fight. We also know that HMAS Sheean was named after him.

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