“Your Parliament – Your Voice”
From the Office of the
Speaker
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Photo taken at the Current and Former Members Lunch at La Perouse
Restaurant 15 November 2012
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On Tuesday of this week we were honoured to welcome
to Norfolk Island Secretary-General of the CPA, Dr William J. Shija, who has
travelled here with his Executive Assistant Mrs Luseane Chesham. Whilst on island, the Secretary-General has
had the opportunity to speak at a School Assembly; meet with our Youth Assembly
in the Legislative Assembly Chamber; he has been a guest at a Government House
reception held in his honour; addressed the Norfolk Language Conference with a
moving speech on “Connecting Cultures” (“Connecting Cultures” is also the theme
that was set for the CPA for 2012 by Her Majesty the Queen); he has met with
current and former Members of the Legislative Assembly; had a working meeting
with the Norfolk Island Branch of the CPA; met with Minister Nobbs and Mr Chris
Magri; enjoyed an Island Fish Fry and watched our Baunti Beauties perform in
preparation for their participation soon in the Australian Schools Spectacular;
had a tour of the Kingston & Arthurs Vale Historic Area with former KAVHA
Manager Mr Puss Anderson; met with the Museum Director Lisa Richards; met with members
of the Pitcairn Descendants Society; toured our island and viewed the
Cyclorama.
It has been an honour for Norfolk
Island to have the Secretary-General’s visit. The CPA is Norfolk Island’s “window to the
world”, and to be able to exchange such broad range of views with
Secretary-General can only be beneficial to us, as well as showing him first
hand not only our passion for our culture but also our passion for knowledge to
continuously improve our legislature and show our enthusiasm to be involved with
the CPA.
The friendships
fostered through the CPA over the past 25 years have certainly helped us
develop from a “cocooned island state” into a community with a broad
cosmopolitan outlook and attitude of the world. CPA is a body where Norfolk
Island participates in its own right and whilst the Norfolk
Island branch is proud to be part of the Australian Region, we
also cherish the ability to exercise our autonomy in voting on issues at CPA
Conferences and Seminars.
The
Secretary-General has made numerous comments throughout his time here on
Norfolk exclaiming how beautiful the island is and how he is going to be
telling people back in London and also his homeland Tanzania about our
beautiful Island in the Pacific!
We thank the Secretary-General
for taking the time to visit our island and Branch of the CPA and wish him and
Mrs Chesham a safe journey to the CPA conference in Rarotonga and a pleasant
journey back to London
Her Majesty the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
celebrations and the Jubilee Time Capsule!
We have
received wonderful news! After 18
months, the Royal Commonwealth Society’s digital time capsule that was created
to celebrate Her Majesty the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee is complete. The 80,000 entries were judged by a distinguished panel including The Honourable
Lady Jane Roberts LVO, award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Deputy
Editor of The
Telegraph Benedict Brogran and the top 60 entries were presented
to Her Majesty this week. We are very
excited to report that the Norfolk Island entry posted for 11 February 1974 and
named “A lovely day – The Queen visits Norfolk Island ”
was included in the top 60 entries, called the “Diamond (re)Collection”. The article was written by the Norfolk Island
Museum Director Lisa Richards and can be viewed at www.jubileetimecapsule.org along with the other
80,000 entries from 37,165 people from 66 countries around the world! The “Diamond (re)Collection” will be uploaded
onto a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 and will move to the Royal Collection, Windsor,
where it will be the first artefact on a tablet computer in the Collection.
November sitting of the Legislative Assembly
The next
scheduled sitting of the Legislative Assembly is Wednesday 21 November 2012 at
10 am. You will find a copy of matters
to be dealt with at the sitting elsewhere in this publication.
To read the Notice Paper, Programme, Minutes of
Proceedings and legislation tabled in the House go to www.info.gov.nf. Issued from the Office of the Speaker on 16 November
2012 and posted on the blog site http://yourparliamentyourvoice.blogspot.com
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