CDI appears before the JSCFADT Human Rights Sub-Committee
CDI Director Ben Reilly and Deputy Director Quinton Clements appeared before the Human Rights Sub-Committee of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade to discuss CDI's activities in the South Pacific. In a broad-ranging discussion, CDI's new focus on parliamentary and political party assistance was the subject of many questions, as were forthcoming major training activities such as the inaugural Political Party Development Course in October and the Pacific Parliamentary Forum in Samoa in December. Future linkages between CDI and the JSCFADT were also canvassed, including the potential participation of Senator Marise Payne and others in the Samoa event, and the possibility of CDI facilitating linkages between JSCFADT and analogous parliamentary committees from Indonesia and East Timor.
