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ASPG Annual Conference 2009 - Pacific Islands Participation &
Parliamentary Secondment Program
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| ^ Solomon Islands & Samoa @ the ASPG 2009 Annual Conference | Parliament House | Hobart. (l to r) Prof Richard Herr - ASPG Tasmanian Chapter | Mr Uitime Tala | The Hon Kevin Rozzoli AM - ASPG President | Hon Lufilufi Moefaauo MP | Mr Noel Matea | Hon Isaac Inoke Tosika MP | Mr Quinton Clements. |
CDI Deputy Director Quinton Clements, participated in the Australasian Study of Parliament Group (ASPG) annual conference at Parliament House in Hobart, Tasmania from 17 to 19 September 2009. The conference theme was The Changing Face of Parliamentary Opposition – Independents, Parties and Houses. A large group of Australian and New Zealand current and former parliamentarians, parliamentary officials, journalists and academics attended the conference, and CDI sponsored the attendance of two parliamentarians and two officers from Solomon Islands and Samoa to the ASPG conference. They were:
- Hon. Isaac Inoke Tosika MP, Member for West Honiara & former Minister for Police and National Security, National Parliament of Solomon Islands;
- Hon. Lufilufi Moefaauo MP, Member for Territorial Constituency of Anoama’a East & Associate Minister for Local Government, Legislative Assembly of Samoa;
- Mr Noel Matea, Research Officer, Committee Secretariat, National Parliament of Solomon Islands; and
- Mr Uitime Tala, Committee Clerk, Legislative Assembly of Samoa.
In facilitating the participation of the Samoan delegation, CDI is supporting the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA)-initiated twinning arrangement between the Tasmanian and Samoan Parliaments. Further, as part of CDI's ongoing support for initiatives that enable Australian State and Territory Parliaments to assist Pacific Island Parliaments, and in conjunction with the ASPG, CDI is sponsoring a one week attachment program for Mr Matea and Mr Tala with the Parliament of New South Wales directly following the conference.
Through this type of activity, CDI continues to support the ASPG in its goal of actively engaging with the parliaments of the Pacific. In 2006 CDI sponsored the attendance of delegations from Solomon Islands and Fiji at the ASPG conference in Wellington, New Zealand. In 2007 CDI sponsored the attendance of delegations from Papua New Guinea, Bougainville and Solomon Islands at the ASPG conference in Adelaide and the participation of two parliamentary officers in a two week attachment program with the South Australian, Commonwealth and ACT parliaments. In 2008 CDI sponsored the participation of two parliamentarians and two officers from Papua New Guinea at the ASPG conference in Brisbane and a two week attachment program for the parliamentary officers with the Queensland Parliament.
Click on these links for more details, and note that full reports from the Samoan and Solomon Islands participants to the 2009 ASPG annual conference will be posted on this page in the near future:
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