Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Usually I say, ‘I inform the House we have present in the gallery,’ but I understand that today we have in the gallery behind me, the press gallery, Miss Kartika Sari, the international reporter of Rakyat Merdeka and, more importantly, the Indonesian winner of the 2008 Elizabeth O’Neill Journalism Award. Of course, that award is in memory of Liz O’Neill, the public affairs officer at the Australian Embassy, Jakarta, who tragically died in the March 2007 plane crash in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. On behalf of the House, I extend to Kartika a very warm welcome. Selamat sukses on your work in progressing the political dialogue between the Republic of Indonesia and Australia.

Honourable Members:

Hear, hear!