Page 2054 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 21 June 2011
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And this from his fitness instructor:
I have been looking after Jim’s fitness for nearly 4 years. He was the most dedicated and disciplined client I have had over the past 20 years. He would only miss a session if he had Open Family meetings or out of the country. He would be here at 7am every day no matter how little sleep he had had due to his heavy commitments. He would never complain about being tired, and would always put in a good solid hard effort for at least an hour. I know this will surprise many because of the myth that you have to be thin to be fit. What a myth that is, Jim was remarkably fit and strong. He was here at my centre putting in the effort right up until Friday and we walked again Saturday before he and his wife Margaret left for RPA.
We developed a close and strong relationship and I will miss him desperately.
All his friends at Partners in Health are shattered by the news of his passing.
He was enormously proud of his boys Damien and AJ and had wonderful support from his wife Margaret.
Jim would say every morning as he left the gym for work that he was as happy as a worm coming home from fishing. I miss that worm every moment of every day.
Jim is the saddest loss the ACT has ever had.
Lisa
Another posted by Lesley:
I knew when we were young and wild, I knew you when we had reached middle age and had slowed down, I know you were a man that had a heart of gold and man that worked so hard for his family and “Canberra”. God Bless. Thinking of Margaret and son’s AJ & Damien and their partners.
There are numerous comments on that website, and I encourage all of the members here to get on to the Canberra Times and read them. I seek leave from the Assembly to table the remainder of those comments, which I have copied.
Leave granted.
MR HANSON: I table the following tributes:
Mr Jim Murphy AM—Tributes.
In conclusion, again, to Margaret and to the boys, our commiserations on your sad loss. I did not know Jim well; I had only met him a few times. What an incredible Canberran.
MRS DUNNE (Ginninderra): I would like to rise briefly to pay tribute to Jim Murphy as a great man and a great Canberran and a great family man. Like Mr Coe, I knew
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