12/07/2024
Parliamentarians from the Australia and Pacific Regions have met for the 53rd Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference (POCC), hosted by Parliament of South Australia in Adelaide from 8 to 12 July 2024.
20/04/2024
The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, Hon. Greg Piper, MP and the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly, Ms Helen Minnican met with the CPA Secretary-General, Stephen Twigg at the CPA Headquarters to discuss a wide range of activities
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
The Speaker of the Parliament of Fiji, Hon. Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu led a delegation visit to the Parliaments of Australia and New South Wales in February 2024. The delegation were welcomed by the President of the Australian Senate, Senator Hon. Sue Lines and the Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives, Hon. Milton Dick, MP
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.
20/02/2024
Two ‘Table of the House’ tables have been gifted to the Cook Islands Parliament by the Parliament of Western Australia.
30/01/2024
A former Chief Justice of Australia writes about the separation of powers.