NSW Legislative Assembly – 5 November 2026
5 November 2026
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NSW Legislative Assembly Parliament of New South Wales
01:18:54 - 01:19:21
Speaker 2
Welcome to Australia's oldest parliament and welcome to this, the New South Wales Legislative Assembly chamber. I'll start by paraphrasing the acknowledgment of country that our Speaker gives at the beginning of every sitting day from the Speaker's chair. I acknowledge the traditional owners of the country upon which the Parliament is located, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. I also acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands that members of this chamber represent and I thank them for their custodianship of country. My name is Simon Johnston.
01:19:21 - 01:19:38
Speaker 1
I'm the Serjeant-at-Arms here in the Legislative Assembly. It's I'm also one of the parliamentary officers and clerks at the table, so it's very uncomfortable for me to be standing in the center of the chamber and to be talking to you when I'm usually hiding down there behind the counter.
01:19:38 - 01:21:02
Speaker 2
So, I'm here to introduce this third in a series of three Legislators at War sessions, in the absence of the Speaker, the Honourable Greg Piper, and the Clerk, Helen Minnican, both of whom are attending a, returning from a regional roadshow workshop out in the regions in Orange, as it happens. So, they would love to be here, in particular the Speaker is a big supporter of the work that Nathan, who I'll introduce shortly, has done looking at the history of this fascinating place. Some of you here will have attended the two previous sessions and some of you who are related to Nathan have probably heard more about it than others. The first session focused on the outbreak of World War II, oh sorry World War I, and the Gallipoli Campaign, and the deaths of two Legislative Assembly members who are commemorated on the plaque behind you there: Lieutenant Colonel George Braund and Sergeant Edward Larkin. The second session focused on the 1916 Australian conscription debate, and its impact on New South Wales politics.
It's an area I didn't know anything about and was very surprised by and very informed by, so I thank Nathan for that session. This third session moves us on to 1917. World War I is still continuing, that's not a spoiler. And I'll leave, I'll leave the details of that to our presenter, and our presenter is Nathan Anderson. Nathan's one of the Legislative Assembly's Chamber Support Officers.
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