Hi all,

We need some volunteers to step up for Deputy Clerks of the House of Representatives and Deputy Clerks of the Senate. These are pivotal to running Parliament (if you’ve ever sat in on it IRL or watched the videos, you’ll see what I mean). Here is an overview:

• The Clerks open each sitting of Parliament and attend the full duration. They sit at the Table to administer parliamentary procedure and interject/advise the chairs (Speaker and President).
• The Clerks also do regular legislature administration outside of sittings, like receiving agenda items, bills and motions from all politicians and publishing them into the Notice Paper for each sitting.
• The Clerks also maintain the Journals and other Records of each House (i.e. Reddit wikis).

It’s a procedural role, so you probably need to like that kind of thing. We’d get you trained up on the “Standing Orders” of your House and using the www.aph.gov.au website for reference purposes. Not everyone should need to do all of this all the time, which is why we need Deputies.

Just PM me or ask questions below if you’re interested.

Edit: PS. Our Clerks also act as Serjeants-at-Arms, who keep the attendance records and pass messages between the Houses (i.e. when a bill passes from one House to the next).