All the staff at ICRAR were deeply saddened today to hear of the untimely and tragic death of Steve Rawlings. Steve was a leader of the international effort to build the SKA and had served as the international project scientist, head of the European SKA consortium and in other major roles that promoted and pushed forward the SKA science case and vision. Several staff members at ICRAR were working with Steve on SKA projects and he was supervising Jacinta Delhaize in her PhD project. Steve and I were talking just a week ago about furthering the relationship between Oxford and ICRAR, particularly to create more opportunities for PhD students. Steve was a person of significant vision who wanted to achieve the international benefit that will flow from the SKA. He was a great researcher, communicator and scientific leader. We will all miss him greatly.