Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce, Companion in the Order of Australia, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, entered the chamber and, taking her seat on the dais, said:

Honourable senators:

I am present to administer to senators elected to serve in the Senate from 1 July 2011 the oath or affirmation of allegiance, as required by section 42 of the Constitution.

The Clerk: I lay on the table the certificates of election of senators elected to serve in the Senate from 1 July 2011.

Governor-General: Will honourable senators please come to the table as their names are called by the Clerk to make and subscribe the oath or affirmation of allegiance.

New South Wales—Concetta Fierravanti-Wells. John Philip Faulkner, William Daniel Heffernan, Matthew James Thistlethwaite, Fiona Joy Nash, Lee Rhiannon

Queensland—George Henry Brandis, Joe Ludwig, Barnaby Joyce, Jan McLucas, Larissa Waters, Brett Mason

South Australia—Alex Gallacher, Mary Jo Fisher, Anne McEwen, Sean Edwards, Penny Wright, David Fawcett

Tasmania—Helen Polley, Eric Abetz, Christine Milne, Anne Urquhart, Stephen Shane Parry, Lisa Singh

Victoria—Michael Ronaldson, Richard Di Natale, Stephen Michael Conroy, Bridget McKenzie, John Madigan

Western Australia—Mathias Hubert Paul Cormann, Christopher Vaughan Evans, Christopher John Back, Glenn Sterle, Judith Anne Adams, Rachel Mary Siewert

The abovenamed senators made and subscribed the oath or affirmation of allegiance.

Her Excellency the Governor-General retired—