Sungroper had it's official launch on the 15th of October 2001. This was the day that Senator Natasha Stott Despoja was in town and had graciously agreed that she would come along and do a little speech at our launch. Sadly it was in the middle of an election campaign and between that and the war on terror we didn't rate that much media coverage but it was a fun day and we got to meet Natasha. David Sweet who used to be the Public Affairs Manager for AlintaGas was our MC for the day and did his job well.