Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Your Excellency, Mr Michael Small, High Commissioner, can I say to you on behalf of this chamber and indeed the parliament—and I acknowledge the presence of the senators in the chamber with us—that we echo as a parliament the sentiments just expressed by the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition and we ask that you convey to your parliament that we as parliamentarians stand shoulder to shoulder with your parliamentarians in determining that we will always stand up for the rights of our people and that we will always protect the freedom of which our leaders have spoken. We appreciate your being in the chamber today.

As a mark of respect, I invite honourable members to rise in their places.

Honourable members having stood in their places—

I thank the House.

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