House of Assembly - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
2025-11-12 Daily Xml

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Parliamentary Procedure

Visitors

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: I would like to acknowledge in the gallery students from John Pirie Secondary School, guests of the Hon. Geoff Brock, member for Stuart. Welcome. Hopefully, members of parliament will behave themselves and set the appropriate standard.

The Hon. G.G. BROCK: I have already warned them.

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: You have already warned them; okay. I would also like to acknowledge the following young political leaders from America who are part of the Australian Political Exchange Council: the Hon. Kelly Gee, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia; the Hon. Preston Blakely, Mayor, Town of Fletcher; the Hon. Alex Dallman, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly; the Hon. Meghan Lukens, member of the Colorado House of Representatives; the Hon. Emerson Levy, member of the Oregon House of Representatives; Mr Jayson Ronk, Vice President, Blue Cross of Idaho; Ms Katherine Brownlee, Senior Manager, Governmental Affairs and Public Policy, American Gas Association; Mr Gilberto Soria Mendoza, Manager, Government Relations, Upstart; Mr Connor Costello, Visits Coordinator, Australian Political Exchange Council (our Sydney friend); and Mr Ariel Larkey, Australian Political Exchange Council. Welcome to our House of Assembly.

I was fortunate enough to have spent some time with them at lunchtime, and they said in American chambers, when ministers are answering questions, people do not interject. So I said to them, 'Be prepared.'