On Monday 15 September 2008, at Government House, Canberra, the Governor-General Ms Quentin Bryce AC...

On Monday 15 September 2008, at Government House, Canberra, the Governor-General Ms Quentin Bryce AC received the Attorney General, the Honourable Robert McClelland MP; the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Harry Jenkins MP; the Clerk of the House of Representatives, Mr Ian Harris; and the Senior Advisor to the Speaker, Mr Christopher Paterson, and assented to the first Bill passed by the Federal Parliament since she assumed the office of Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia.

In the afternoon, the Governor-General received the First Parliamentary Counsel, Mr Peter Quiggin.