The Parliamentarian 2017: Issue Three

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COMMONALITIES IN COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENTS

COMMONALITIES IN COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENTS Two CPA Small Branches have found many similarities between their two remote jurisdictions and their Parliaments.

The recent occasion of the 2017 Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Executive Committee MidYear Meeting in Darwin in April 2017 provided an opportunity for two of our smaller Branches to compare notes. The host Branch, the

Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory, discovered that despite having the polar opposite climate of the snow-swept Northwest Territories of Canada, the two Assemblies are not so different after all. For example, the

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Northwest Territories (NT) jurisdiction spans 1,144,000 square kilometers of land, and the jurisdiction of the Northern Territory (NT) similarly encompasses 1,349,129 square kilometers of land. Also, despite the vast

Above: The Speaker of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, Hon. Kezia Purick, MLA with the symbolic crocodile skin in the Northern Territory Legislative Chamber in Darwin, Australia.


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