Final Sitting Week For Parliament

When Parliament resumes today a number of procedural motions are on top of the Order Paper.

Following Question Time the Appropriation (2009/10 Financial Review) Bill will be given its first reading without debate and Government Notice of Motion No 4 will be moved without debate.

This motion appoints Heather Roy to replace John Boscawen on the Parliamentary Service Commission as ACT’s representative.

The first bills up are the committee stage debates of the Electoral (Finance Reform and Advance Voting) Amendment Bill and the Parliamentary Service Amendment Bill.

New Labour MP Kris Faafoi is scheduled to make his maiden speech at 5.45 and National MP Pansy Wong, who has announced her intention to resign from Parliament, has said she will seek leave to make a valedictory speech.

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