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th 100 anniversary issue 1920-2020 TheParliamentarian Journal of the Parliaments of the Commonwealth 2020 | Volume 101 | Issue One | Price £14 SPECIAL CENTENARY ISSUE: A century of publishing The Parliamentarian, the Journal of Commonwealth Parliaments, 1920-2020 PAGES 24-25 PLUS The Commonwealth Building Commonwealth Votes for 16 year Promoting global Secretary-General looks links in the Post-Brexit olds and institutional equality in the ahead to CHOGM 2020 World: A view from reforms at the Welsh Commonwealth in Rwanda Gibraltar Assembly PAGE 26 PAGE 30 PAGE 34 PAGE 40 CPA Masterclasses STATEMENT OF PURPOSE The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) exists to connect, develop, promote and support Parliamentarians and their staff to identify benchmarks of good governance, and Online video Masterclasses build an informed implement the enduring values of the Commonwealth. parliamentary community across the Commonwealth Calendar of Forthcoming Events and promote peer-to-peer learning 2020 Confirmed as of 24 February 2020 CPA Masterclasses are ‘bite sized’ video briefings and analyses of critical policy areas March and parliamentary procedural matters by renowned experts that can be accessed by Sunday 8 March 2020 International Women's Day the CPA’s membership of Members of Parliament and parliamentary staff across the Monday 9 March 2020 Commonwealth Day 17 to 19 March 2020 Commonwealth Association of Public Accounts Committees (CAPAC) Conference, London, UK Commonwealth ‘on demand’ to support their work. April 24 to 28 April 2020 Mid-Year meeting of the CPA Executive Committee, Assam, India May 27 to 30 May 2020 49th CPA British Islands and Mediterranean Regional Conference, Valletta, Malta June 22 to 27 June 2020 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), Kigali, Rwanda including: Commonwealth Youth Forum (21-23 June); Commonwealth Women’s Forum (22-23 June); Commonwealth People’s Forum (22-24 June); and Commonwealth Business Forum (23-25 June) July 10 to 18 July 2020 45th CPA Caribbean, Americas & Atlantic Regional Conference, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos 18 to 24 July 2020 58th CPA Canada Regional Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 20 to 23 July 2020 CPA Pacific and Australia Region Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference (POCC), Fiji 20 to 26 July 2020 51st CPA Africa Regional Conference, Abuja, Nigeria 2021 12 to 18 January 2021 65th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada The CPA calendar fosters the exchange of events and activities between CPA Regions and Branches. For further information on any events, please contact the CPA Branch concerned or the CPA Headquarters Secretariat. CPA Branch Secretaries are asked to send notices of CPA events to [email protected] in advance of the publication deadline to ensure the calendar is accurate. CPA Masterclass topics include: Disaster Risk Reduction | Gender and Parliament | Gender Budgeting | Women’s and Gender Caucusing | The role of male MPs as ‘agents of change’ CPA Small Branches Climate Change Toolkit for | Corporate Leadership for Parliamentarians | Parliamentarians and Local Government | Parliamentarians Separation of Powers in Relation to Parliament | Trade and the Role of Parliamentarians • Strengthening Parliamentarians as effective actors in the The CPA Masterclasses are available online via the CPA website. climate change agenda. www.cpahq.org/cpahq/cpamasterclasses • Accessible introduction to the key issues facing Legislatures at the frontline of climate change. • Practical guide for Parliamentarians to further progress at Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) the domestic and international level. Email: [email protected] | Tel: +44 (0)20 7799 1460 | www.cpahq.org Visit www.cpahq.org/cpahq/SBclimatechange to download a copy or email [email protected] Twitter @CPA_Secretariat | Facebook.com/CPAHQ Updated February 2020 CONTENTS: THE PARLIAMENTARIAN 100th anniversary issue CONTENTS 2020: ISSUE ONE The Parliamentarian 1920-2020 PAGE 20 PAGE 24 PAGE 18 PAGE 29 The Parliamentarian: Annual subscription Journal of the Parliaments VIEWS & NEWS & FEATURE PARLIAMENTARY (four issues) of the Commonwealth COMMENT PHOTOS ARTICLES REPORTS UK: £44 inc. postage. Volume 101 Worldwide: £46 surface post 2020: Issue One Editor’s Note View from the CPA CPA News The Parliamentarian Election Reforms: Votes Parliamentary Report £52 airmail The Parliamentarian Page 4 Small Branches News reports include: centenary for 16 year olds and Featuring parliamentary ISSN 0031-2282 Chairperson • 38th CPA Australia and A century of publishing institutional reforms at and legislative reports from Price per issue View from the CPA How can the smallest Pacific Regional Conference The Parliamentarian, the the Welsh Assembly Canada, Trinidad and Tobago, UK: £14 Issued and published by the Chairperson Parliaments deliver with their in South Australia Journal of Commonwealth A historic Act in the Welsh United Kingdom, Sri Lanka, Worldwide: £15 surface post International Secretariat of the £16 airmail Looking to the limited resources to deepen • CPA Small Branches Parliaments, 1920-2020 Assembly brings institutional New Zealand, Uganda, Commonwealth Parliamentary Commonwealth's future democratic governance? Workshop on Sustainable Page 24 changes Australia and India Association (CPA), CPA Disclaimer and the importance of youth Page 10 Economic Development in Page 34 Pages 48-75 Headquarters Secretariat, Opinions and comments engagement Malta Delivering a Common Richmond House, Houses of expressed in articles and Page 6 View from the Acting • Launch of the CPA Small Future: Connecting, How Parliamentarians Parliament, London CPA Secretary-General Branches Climate Change Innovating, can engage the public CPA DIRECTORY reviews published in The SW1A 0AA, United Kingdom. View from the Reflecting on 100 years of Toolkit for Parliamentarians Transforming through petition Parliamentarian are those of Commonwealth Women The Parliamentarian and the • 25th Conference of Speakers The Commonwealth system reforms CPA Organisational the individual contributors Tel: +44 (0) 20 7799 1460 CPA's role in parliamentary and Presiding Officers of the Secretary-General marks The modernisation of Structure and should not be attributed Parliamentarians (CWP) th Email: [email protected] Chairperson development Commonwealth in Canada the 100 anniversary of this parliamentary petition CPA Executive Committee to the Secretariat of the www.cpahq.org th Association. Creating a new vision for Page 12 • 10 Commonwealth Youth journal and looks ahead to systems in New South Wales Members, Commonwealth Twitter @CPA_Secretariat the Commonwealth Women Parliament in India the CHOGM 2020 in Rwanda Page 38 Women Parliamentarians Facebook.com/CPAHQ th Contributors Parliamentarians • 7 CPA India Regional Page 26 (CWP) Steering Committee Thank you to all contributors Page 8 Conference in Uttar Pradesh Promoting global Members and CPA Regional Mr Jarvis Matiya • 68th Westminster Seminar Building equality in the Secretaries for this issue. CPA Acting Secretary-General on Effective Parliaments in Commonwealth links Commonwealth Pages 76-77 London in the Post-Brexit A group of Parliamentarians Printed in: United Kingdom Mr Jeffrey Hyland • 28th Asia-Pacific World are seeking to promote CPA Branch Directory by Warners Midlands, PLC; Editor, The Parliamentarian Parliamentary Forum in The Deputy Chief Minister global equality for LGBT+ A full directory of all CPA New Delhi, India by Jainco [email protected] Australia. of Gibraltar looks at future citizens Branches Art India; and Singapore Pages 14-23 links being built in the Page 40 Pages 78-85 by Times Printers Private Main images: CPA Commonwealth Limited. Headquarters Secretariat Commonwealth Page 30 The need to eradicate and Shutterstock images. Women inequality in South Additional images: CPA Parliamentarians Africa Branches and Members. News and Events A view from the South African Front cover images: Jeffrey Reports from CWP activities Human Rights Commission Hyland/CPA Headquarters around the Commonwealth Page 42 Secretariat. Pages 44-47 2 | The Parliamentarian | 2020: Issue One | 100th anniversary issue 1920-2020 The Parliamentarian | 2020: Issue One | 100th anniverary issue 1920-2020 | 3 EDITOR’S NOTE EDITOR’S NOTE MARKING 100 YEARS OF PUBLISHING THE PARLIAMENTARIAN, THE JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENTS The Editor’s Note When this journal was first published in January 1920 as the ‘Journal These Commonwealth values have developed over many years of Parliaments of the Empire’, the world was a very different place and and are codified in the 2012 Commonwealth Charter and the CPA the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), which had been has continued to demonstrate its commitment to promote and founded in 1911, was a small group of nations and territories. The last ensure that these Commonwealth democratic principles and values 100 years have seen the CPA’s membership grow are “upheld, nurtured and implemented to the to 180 Branches in 54 Commonwealth countries highest standards.” Please turn to page 24 to read a feature article on 'A century of publishing The Parliamentarian, and includes more than 125 sub-national states, The Commonwealth Secretary-General, the Journal of Commonwealth Parliaments, 1920-2020'. provinces and territories, all with their own Parliaments Rt Hon. Patricia Scotland, QC writing in this or Legislatures. issue of The Parliamentarian recognises the Through this period, the journal has evolved role of the CPA and its
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