Alan Ferguson (SA, Deputy-President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The President has received a letter from the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Abetz) nominating a senator to be a member of the Council of the National Library of Australia, consequent on the retirement of Senator Trood.

Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—I move:

That, in accordance with the provisions of the National Library Act 1960, the Senate elect Senator Humphries to be a member of the Council of the National Library of Australia on and from 1 July 2011, for a period of 3 years, consequent on the retirement of Senator Trood.

Question agreed to.