| Date |
Event |
Delegation members |
1 July 2001 to
15 July 2001 |
Official visits to Indonesia and the Republic
of Korea |
Dr Andrew Southcott MP
Delegation Leader
The Hon. Neil O'Keefe MP
Deputy Leader
Senator Philip Lightfoot
Mr Allan Morris MP
Mr John Murphy MP
Mr Patrick Secker MP |
1 July 2001 to
6 July 2001 |
Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference,
Wellington, New Zealand |
Senator the Hon. Margaret Reid |
27 August 2001 to
1 September 2001 |
Australian Official Observer Delegation
to East Timor |
Senator Vicki Bourne
The Hon. Tim Fischer MP
Senator Marise Payne
Mr Kevin Rudd MP |
29 August 2001 to
30 August 2001 |
Peace treaty signing ceremony in Bougainville,
Papua New Guinea |
Senator Alan Ferguson |
31 August 2001 to
7 September 2001 |
World Conference Against Racism |
Senator Aden Ridgeway
The Hon. Con Sciacca MP |
2 September 2001 to
13 September 2001 |
Twenty-second ASEAN Inter-parliamentary
Organisation General Assembly, Bangkok, Thailand and bilateral visit
to Singapore |
Mr Garry Nehl MP
Delegation Leader
Senator Winston Crane
Mr Allan Morris MP
Ms Tanya Plibersek MP |
3 September 2001 to
14 September 200 |
Forty-seventh Commonwealth Parliamentary
Conference, Canberra, Australia |
Senator Paul Calvert
Delegation Leader
Senator Lyn Allison
The Hon. Ian Causley MP
The Hon. Janice Crosio MP
Ms Annette Ellis MP
Senator Michael Forshaw
The Hon. Gary Hardgrave MP
Mrs Margaret May MP |
6 September 2001 to
20 December 2001 |
United Nations General Assembly, New York,
United States |
The Hon. Louis Lieberman MP Delegation
Leader
Senator the Hon. Rosemary Crowley |
9 September 2001 to
15 September 2001 |
One hundred and sixth Inter-parliamentary
Union Conference, Ouagadougou, Burkino Faso |
Senator Susan Knowles
Delegation Leader
Senator Brenda Gibbs
Senator Jim McKiernan |
9 November 2001 to
13 November 2001 |
Fourth World Trade Organisation Ministerial
Conference, Doha, Qatar |
The Hon. Mark Vaile MP
Delegation Leader
Senator the Hon. Peter Cook |
17 November 2001 to
21 November 2001 |
Visit to New Caledonia |
Senator Alan Ferguson |
5 January 2002 to
12 January 2002 |
Tenth Annual Meeting of the Asia Pacific
Parliamentary Forum |
Senator Winston Crane
Delegation Leader
Mr Bernie Ripoll MP
Deputy Leader
Mr Anthony Byrne MP |
5 January 2002 to
13 January 2002 |
Meeting of Presiding Officers and Clerks,
Kasane, Botswana; visit to Zambia |
The Hon. J Neil Andrew MP |
10 January 2002 to
22 January 2002 |
Official visit by Senate President Senator
the Hon. Margaret Reid to the United Kingdom, Portugal and Spain |
Senator the Hon. Margaret Reid |
11 February 2002 to
16 February 2002 |
Visit to Singapore and Malaysia to commemorate
the sixtieth anniversary of the fall of Singapore |
The Hon. Danna Vale MP
Delegation Leader
Senator Thomas Bishop |
22 February 2002 to
6 March 2002 |
Commonwealth Parliamentary Workshop on
the international trading system, St Lucia |
Senator the Hon. Peter Cook
The Hon. Geoffrey Prosser MP |
2 March 2002 to
15 March 2002 |
Visit to Zimbabwe as election observers |
Ms Julie Bishop MP
Senator Alan Ferguson
Mr Kevin Rudd MP |
5 March 2002 to
6 March 2002 |
Additional outgoing delegation to East
Timor to visit Australian troops deployed on Operation Tanager |
Senator Christopher Evans Delegation
Leader
The Hon. Graham Edwards MP |
7 March 2002 to
17 March 2002 |
Official visit by Senator the Hon. Margaret
Reid to attend the Queens Golden Jubilee Conference, London, United
Kingdom |
Senator the Hon. Margaret Reid |
14 March 2002 to
28 March 2002 |
One hundred and seventh Inter-Parliamentary
Conference in Marrakech, Morocco and bilateral visit to Kuwait |
Senator Grant Chapman
Delegation Leader
Senator Jim McKiernan
Deputy Leader (Inter-Parliamentary Conference)
The Hon. Con Sciacca MP
Deputy Leader (bilateral visit)
Senator Jeannie Ferris
Senator Brenda Gibbs |
2 April 2002 to
21 April 2002 |
Official parliamentary visit to Finland
and Germany, and official visit by Senate President Senator the Hon.
Margaret Reid only to Austria |
Senator the Hon. Margaret Reid
Delegation Leader
Senator Sue Mackay
Deputy Leader
Senator Winston Crane
Mr Michael Danby MP
Mrs Kay Elson MP
Mrs Margaret May MP |
12 April 2002 to
15 April 2002 |
Australian Official Election Observer
Delegation to East Timor |
Senator Vicki Bourne
Mr Luke Hartsuyker MP
Senator Jan McLucas
Senator Marise Payne |
14 April 2002 to
17 April 2002 |
Visit to New Zealand by the Senate Environment,
Communication, Information Technology and the Arts Legislation and
References committees |
Senator Alan Eggleston
Delegation Leader
Senator Lyn Allison
Deputy Leader
Senator Geoffrey Buckland
Senator Tsebin Tchen
Senator John Tierney |
30 April 2002 to
3 May 2002 |
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
Executive Committee mid-year meeting, Tarawa, Kiribati |
Senator the Hon. Margaret Reid |
7 May 2002 to
15 May 2002 |
Additional official delegation to the
United States and the United Kingdom |
The Hon. David Jull MP
The Hon. Leo McLeay MP |
8 May 2002 to
10 May 2002 |
Additional parliamentary delegation as
part of the Australian Government's delegation to the United Nations
Special Session on Children |
Senator the Hon. Rosemary Crowley
Senator Brian Harradine |