CDI Organises Secondment of Bougainville Parliamentary Official
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| ^ Mr Donald Misang - Committee Officer with the Bougainville House of Representatives (centre), with Mr Les Gonye - Clerk Assistant Committees, Legislative Assembly, Parliament of New South Wales (left), and CDI Deputy Director Quinton Clements (right). |
As part of its support for initiatives that enable Australian State and Territory Parliaments to assist Pacific Island Parliaments, CDI arranged the secondment of an officer of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville House of Representatives to the New South Wales Parliament for a period of four weeks to work in a committee secretariat administered by the Legislative Assembly. The purpose of the secondment was for the Bougainvillean parliamentary officer to gain first-hand experience working alongside his NSW counterparts on a committee inquiry and related projects.
Mr Donald Misang, Committee Officer with the Bougainville House of Representatives, undertook this placement very successfully, working in the secretariat serving the Public Bodies Review Committee as well as observing the work of several other parliamentary committees. During his secondment, Mr Misang also worked on the development of a draft committee manual for consideration by the House of Representatives when he returns to Buka. Senior NSW parliamentary officer Mr Les Gonye acted as mentor to Mr Misang during his work in Sydney.
The costs of this secondment were shared between CDI, the CPA and the NSW Parliament.
Click on these links for Mr Misang's full report on his NSW secondment, and for more details about CDI's other recent work with Bougainville's House of Representatives, and the CPA twinning arrangement with the NSW parliament:
