Today we celebrated the life of former Senator Alan Eggleston fondly known to so many of us as “Eggy”. A quote from Eggy captured the spirit with which he lived his life: "It all came together in my mind when I was 11 years old; nothing stopped me doing the things I did yesterday, so, what is there I can't do tomorrow?" This was relevant when he applied to study medicine at the University of WA. When the selection panel expressed concern that his height would cause such problems as tending a patient on a high bed, he replied: “Where other doctors need to take no steps, I might have to take two. And where other doctors have to take one step, I might have to take three or four. If I find a terminally ill patient on a high bed, I will stand on a stool to care for that person. At Royal Perth Hospital I will do the same”. Alan – you were a giant of a man and as Senator Slade Brockman said - “a true dragon slayer”. You left the world a better place than you found it.