Editor’s Note
Young people at a Bermuda school engage with Hon. Randolph Horton, JP, MP, Speaker of the House of Assembly of Bermuda during a CPA Roadshow visit.
Senator Floyd Morris (Jamaica) shares his considerable knowledge of establishing a model political communication strategy for people with disabilities, using his own experiences as a Parliamentarian and his extensive research in this area. Mr Tom Duncan (Australian Capital Territory) is the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly of the Australian Capital Territory and is the current Regional Secretary for the CPA Australia Region. He shares a paper initially presented to the 47th Presiding Officers’ and Clerks’ Conference in Tonga in July 2016, on ‘Parliament and the Numbers’ which examines the challenges for parliamentary democracies in their composition. Pradeep Kumar Dubey (Uttar Pradesh, India) is Principal Secretary at the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly in India and shares his article on Climate Change and how Parliamentarians can play a role. Marianne Conaty (Northern Territory, Australia) is the Deputy Clerk of the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory of Australia and provides an interesting report on a visit by a delegation from the Northern Territory of Australia to the Niue Parliament outlining the outcomes of a Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Secretariat Technical Assistance Programme for the Parliament of Niue. The Parliamentary Report and Third Reading section in this issue includes parliamentary and legislative news from Canada Federal,
India, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Australia Federal. The CPA Headquarters Secretariat is gearing up for the 62nd Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (2016 CPC) in London, United Kingdom from 11 to 17 December 2016. This conference will also has a number of additional conferences and meetings including: CPA Executive Committee; CPA General Assembly; 35th Small Branches Conference including the Election of the Chairperson of the Small Branches; 4th Triennial Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians Conference including the Election of the Chairperson of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians; and the Society of Clerks-at-the-Table (SOCATT) Meetings. Updates on the 2016 CPC can be found at: www.cpahq.org/cpahq/ annualconference2016. Full reports of the 62nd Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (2016 CPC) will appear in The Parliamentarian in 2017. We look forward to hearing your feedback and comments on this issue of The Parliamentarian, on the issues of concern to Parliamentarians across the Commonwealth and to receive your future contributions in 2017. Jeffrey Hyland Editor, The Parliamentarian editor@cpahq.org
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