Hon Sandra Anne Carr, MLC (Member for Agricultural)
PARLIAMENT OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA INAUGURAL SPEECH Hon Sandra Anne Carr, MLC (Member for Agricultural) Legislative Council Address-in-Reply Tuesday, 1 June 2021 Reprinted from Hansard Legislative Council Tuesday, 1 June 2021 ____________ ADDRESS-IN-REPLY Motion Resumed from 27 May on the following motion moved by Hon Pierre Yang — That the following address be presented to His Excellency the Honourable Kim Beazley, Companion of the Order of Australia, Governor in and over the state of Western Australia and its dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia — May it please Your Excellency: We, the members of the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Western Australia in Parliament assembled, beg to express our loyalty to our most gracious sovereign and thank Your Excellency for the speech you have been pleased to deliver to Parliament. HON SANDRA CARR (Agricultural) [2.12 pm]: Thank you, President. I congratulate you on your election to the role of President and for the leadership that you promptly demonstrated in making the honorific of President gender neutral. I am heartened by such an immediate modernising action and look forward to working in this place under your leadership. I also congratulate Hon Martin Aldridge on his election to the role of Deputy President and, additionally, look forward to learning from his experience and leadership. I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land upon which we stand, the proud Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation. I thank them for allowing me to stand upon their land. I acknowledge the traditional leaders past, present and emerging, for they hold the memories, traditions, cultures and hopes of the traditional owners of this land.
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