26/03/2024
Historic Speech by the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, Presentation of the Parliamentary Leadership Taskforce Annual Report, Death of Sitting Member: Peta Jan Murphy and Death of Former Member and Governor-General, Hon. Bill Hayden, AC. Also includes Parliamentary Reports from the CPA Australia Region and the Third Reading report.
25/03/2024
If Parliaments don’t engage with young people, that’s over a third of the population that aren’t part of the conversation. Having young people as part of the conversation can only positively extend into their adult lives as these foundational experiences carry them through. In this article, I will share what we’ve learnt from young people, and what young people have told us through our youth engagement work at the Parliament of Victoria.
19/03/2024
Celebrating 162 years of existence on 28 August this year, the following is a potted history of the establishment and successive iterations of what is now the Tasmanian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Accounts.
14/03/2024
The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Headquarters held a special meeting of Commonwealth Speakers and Presiding Officers held at Speaker’s House at the UK Parliament, following the Commonwealth Speakers Summit 2024 for Commonwealth Day and the 75th anniversary of the Commonwealth.
10/03/2024
If Parliaments don’t engage with young people, that’s over a third of the population that aren’t part of the conversation. Having young people as part of the conversation can only positively extend into their adult lives as these foundational experiences carry them through. In this article, I will share what we’ve learnt from young people, and what young people have told us through our youth engagement work at the Parliament of Victoria.
06/03/2024
In the Australian House of Representatives (the House), the use of unparliamentary language is governed by Standing Orders relating to Disorder. The Standing Orders outline the following instances of Disorder:
23/02/2024
A delegation from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Headquarters met with the Parliament of Kiribati (Maneaba ni Maungatabu) this week as part of a CPA Benchmarks self-assessment.
30/01/2024
A former Chief Justice of Australia writes about the separation of powers.
08/01/2024
The Committee on Children and Young People at the Parliament of New South Wales has marked a historic milestone as the first-ever all-female Parliamentary Committee.
The appointment of an all-female membership to an important oversight Committee is an example of pioneering women lawmakers progressing women's roles in the state Parliament.
06/01/2024
Speakers and Presiding Officers from across the Commonwealth have met in Kampala, Uganda for the 27th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC) which took place from 3 to 6 January 2024.
03/01/2024
Happy New Year from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Secretariat. 2023 was a very busy year for the CPA, culminating in December with our online conference on the Fourth Industrial Revolution. And I am delighted that this month, January 2024, we're launching our new Parliamentary Handbook on Artificial Intelligence, as part of our work on technology and innovation. This will be a busy and important year for the Commonwealth and indeed for the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.
08/12/2023
I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Commonwealth (Latimer House) Principles on the Three Branches of Government in this issue of The Parliamentarian. I do so from an Australian perspective on the separate but interacting functions of the Parliament and the Judiciary in making laws and interpreting them.