 I'm very pleased to be in Melbourne to join about 300 volunteers at the returned Australia Volunteer Network. Wonderful to see so many volunteers who have had marvellous experiences overseas, coming back, sharing their experiences and hopefully wanting to go off overseas again on some future posting. It's really good to have so many people coming here. I think we've always got about 300 people who have come to Melbourne to be part of this. Not only to share their experiences but also to workshop and to look at ways that potentially they can personally develop from their experience. The volunteer program started in 1952 and it started small but it's really grown. We've had about 13,000 people, 13,000 alumni from this program and that's absolutely fantastic. Most of our volunteers operate in the Indo-Pacific area, as one would expect. This is our region. This is where we operate most of our overseas development assistance and our volunteers come from right across the spectrum. They're professionals, they're technicians, they're teachers, they're doctors, you name it and we've got them because they're plugging into vitally important roles of providing technical assistance. They volunteer because they want to volunteer. They volunteer because they love what they're doing and that of course exudes not just confidence but warmth, understanding and very much results in building those vitally important people to people. Our volunteers are the face of Australia abroad. What we really would like is for people to come back home and tell their story. We want them to talk about their positive experiences, to encourage other people, to want to think about being a volunteer.