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Order! I was going to advise the House earlier today that I was going to ask members to come with me across to Government House to present the address-in-reply to His Excellency the Governor-General. I will be glad if the mover, the member for Solomon, and the seconder, the member for Petrie, together with other honourable members, accompany me to present the address.

I inform the House that, accompanied by honourable members, I waited today upon His Excellency the Governor-General at Government House and presented to him the address-in-reply to His Excellency’s speech on the opening of the first session of the 42nd Parliament, agreed to by the House on 27 May 2008.

His Excellency was pleased to make the following reply:

Mr Speaker,

Thank you for your Address in Reply.

It will be my pleasure and my duty to convey to Her Majesty The Queen the message of loyalty from the House of Representatives, to which the Address gives expression.