Executive Council; Swearing-in Ceremony; Investiture Ceremony for the Honourable James R. Clapper

On Thursday 27 September 2012, at Government House, Canberra, the Governor-General Ms Quentin Bryce AC CVO, presided at a meeting of the Federal Executive Council.

Afterwards, the Governor-General and Mr Bryce AM AE attended a ceremony at which the Governor-General administered the Affirmation of Office to the Administrator-designate of the Territories of Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands, His Honour Mr Jon Stanhope.

In the evening, the Governor-General, as Chancellor of the Order of Australia, invested the Director of the National Intelligence, the Honourable James R. Clapper, with the insignia of his appointment as an Honorary Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia. The ceremony was also attended by the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, General David Petraeus AO.