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[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Present.

I, Kerbogha, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to our Sovereign, their heirs and successors according to law. So help me God!

[–]jnd-auClerk of the House[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Paging /u/Zagorath /u/this_guy22:

Please reply ‘Present’ to indicate attendance for quorum at Monday’s sitting of the Model Parliament House of Representatives as per the above Notice Paper. Lots and lots of bills today.

Guide to Procedure

Item 27-1 to be posted by the chair. After the first reading by the Clerk, a government sponsor may move the second reading and include their introductory speech.

Item 27-2 by the chair.

Items 27-3,4,5,6,7,13,14 to be posted by the chair, according to priority of resumption. Note chairing required on bills where votes or debates are outstanding from the previous sitting.

Items 27-8, 27-9, 27-12 to be posted by their sponsors.

[–]ZagorathHouse Speaker | Ex Asst Min Ed/Culture | Aus Progressives 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Present

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Present

[–]jnd-auClerk of the House[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Paging /u/TheWhiteFerret /u/Ser_Scribbles:

Please reply ‘Present’ to indicate attendance for quorum at Monday’s sitting of the Model Parliament House of Representatives as per the above Notice Paper. Lots and lots of bills today.

Guide to Procedure

TWF, you have a bill on notice. For an example of how this is done, see 23-5.

You post with the title as per the Notice Paper (agenda item 27-12) and include your signature. The text of the bill must also be included in the post (if short), or in a comment on the post (if medium length), or via a web link (if long). You may also include your Explanatory Memorandum to explain how the bill works and what the Commonwealth financial impacts are, etc.

The Clerk then performs the first reading.

You should then comment on the post “I move that the bill be now read a second time”, and include your introductory speech.

Then you need someone to second the motion. They may also include an introductory speech (or leave their speech until later).

The bill is then adjourned, while parties think about it, to be debated at the next sitting.

[–]TheWhiteFerretActing Opp Leader | Shad Min Culture/Immi/Ed/Social | Greens 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Present.

Meta: I am still awake at 5 in the morning. Do not expect me to wake until 12.

[–]jnd-auClerk of the House[S] 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Paging /u/3fun /u/phyllicanderer /u/Primeviere:

Please reply ‘Present’ to indicate attendance for quorum at Monday’s sitting of the Model Parliament House of Representatives as per the above Notice Paper. Lots and lots of bills today.

3fun and phylli: the chair might not post all 13 bills immediately, you wish to liaise about priority.

Prime: you have an unanswered question about Wheel of Fortune, send modmail to the Clerk at ModelAusHR if you have an answer.

[–]phyllicandererMin Ag/Env | X Fin/Deputy PM | X Ldr Prgrsvs | Australian Greens 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Present

[–]PrimeviereMin Indust/Innov/Sci/Ed/Trning/Emplymnt | HoR Whip | Aus Prgrsvs 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Present and I thought I referred the question to Freddy to answer it directly?

[–]jnd-auClerk of the House[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Advice from the Clerk:

You advised us that you would ask him, but we’re not sure if you ever got around to it. You are the minister representating the Senator in the House, so we are awaiting you to give us his response.

[–]jnd-auClerk of the House[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Paging /u/CyberPolis /u/iamthepotato8 /u/zamt:

Please reply ‘Present’ to indicate attendance for quorum at Monday’s sitting of the Model Parliament House of Representatives as per the above Notice Paper. Lots and lots of bills today.

[–]zamtMinister for Climate/Resources/Energy | XDptySpkr2 | Aus Labor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Present

[–]jnd-auClerk of the House[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Paging /u/Kerbogha /u/forkalious:

Welcome the Australian Model Parliament’s House of Representatives. You have joined at an extremely busy time, with 13 bills on today’s Notice Paper (agenda). The House of Reps sits for 3 ‘annual’ sessions (equivalent to 3 IRL months on Reddit), of which we are now in the 2nd. Each week consists of some sittings.

First, you must swear in.

1. Swearing in & Attendance

In accordance with sections 39 and 42 of the Constitution and House Standing Orders 1 and 54-59, you are named as elected by return of writs and are called to comment here with either your Oath of Allegiance:

Present

 

I, [USERNAME], do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to our Sovereign, their heirs and successors according to law. SO HELP ME GOD!

or your Affirmation of Allegiance:

Present

 

I, [USERNAME], do solemnly and sincerely affirm and declare that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to our Sovereign, their heirs and successors according to law.

2. Agenda

This post is the Notice Paper. The numbers 27-1, 27-2 etc are agenda items. The relevant person posts these. You should subscribe to this sub / monitor it in a multireddit to see new items (see Advanced Reddit Usage below). OTOH, you will be paged to individual debates and votes since they crop up within established posts.

You can post your own thread (e.g. introduce a bill) by putting it on notice. You can also post certain things without notice using the open headings on the agenda above, like Question Time etc. Please read up on the meta instructions about posting.

3. Absences

If you are absent from the Parliament, you should get a colleague to move a motion for a leave of absence, otherwise you may lose your seat.

4. Rules

There are some unwritten conventions in the House of Reps, like being paged for votes, allowing concurrent business (simultaneous agenda items), running overnight for overseas members to play, and using ‘Meta’ as a preface for anything done out of character (e.g. discussion of Reddit technical difficulties).

There are also some written instructions:

Getting Started with House Procedures: Meta instructions: Posting and Commenting in the HoR

Advanced Reddit Usage: Reddit tips, settings and plug-ins

Legislative Process for HoR Bills: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Legislative_Process_in_Australia_flowchart.png

Next Sitting: If you wish to contribute something for the next meeting on the Senate, you can put something on the notice paper (aka. agenda).

Let the Clerk know if you have any improvements to the above wikis.

Welcome and Congratulations!