John Hogg (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I advise honourable senators that the New Zealand High Commission has agreed to make a condolence book for the Christchurch earthquake available at Parliament House for members and senators to sign. The book will be available this morning between 10 o’clock and 12 noon in the glass link way in the President’s suite, and I invite senators to sign it.

I have been asked about the prospect of other people signing the book. The book is very limited in size—that was not our decision; it was the choice of the New Zealand High Commission. Hence signing will be restricted in this instance to senators, as members have signed a similar or the same book on another occasion.