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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2025-02-04T14:15:00+10:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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      <name>Senate Vacancy</name>
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        <heading>Senate Vacancy</heading>
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        <name>The President</name>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT (14:44):</by>  Before I call on questions without notice, I remind members that having received a memorandum from Her Excellency the Governor notifying that a vacancy has happened in the representation of the state in the Senate of the Commonwealth, and pursuant to joint standing order No. 16, on 30 January 2025 I summoned members of the council and the House of Assembly to a joint sitting of the houses in the Legislative Council chamber at 12.30pm on Thursday 6 February 2025 for the purpose of choosing a person to fill the vacancy in the Senate caused by the resignation of Senator the Hon. Simon Birmingham.</text>
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