John Hogg (Queensland, Deputy-President) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—I present the report of the 38th Conference of Presiding Officers and Clerks, which was held in Raratonga, Cook Islands, from 7 to 14 July 2007, together with the report of proceedings. I seek leave to move a motion to take note of the document.

Leave granted.

I move:

That the Senate take note of the report.

The report is quite comprehensive, so I will be very brief. I would like to put on the public record my thanks to the President for giving me the opportunity to attend in his place this meeting of Presiding Officers. The Senate was represented by Dr Jacqueline Dewar, representing the Clerk of the Senate, and Senator Alan Ferguson in his capacity as the Australian regional representative of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.