On Monday 29 June 2009, at Government House, Canberra, the Governor-General Ms Quentin Bryce AC presided at a meeting of the Federal Executive Council.

In the evening, the Governor-General and Mr Michael Bryce AM AE hosted to dinner: Emeritus Professor Don Aitkin AO and Mrs Beverley Aitkin; Professor Warwick Anderson AM; Mr David Crombie and Mrs Margaret Crombie; Ms Faiza El-Higzi; Mr Peter Forrest and Mrs Sheila Forrest; Mr Stephen Gageler SC and Mrs Carla Gageler; Rear Admiral Stephen Gilmore AM CSC RAN and Mrs Kate Gilmore; Ms Michelle Grattan AO; Professor Sandra Harding and Dr Kevin Harding; the Honourable Chief Justice Terence Higgins AO and Ms Gayle Yeaman; Mr David Irvine AO; Senator Barnaby Joyce and Mrs Natalie Joyce; the Honourable Dr Mike Kelly AM MP and Ms Rachelle Sakker Kelly; Mr Alan Kohler; Mr Geoffrey Larkham and Mrs Maureen Larkham; Mr David Liddy and Mrs Christine Liddy; Mr Terry Moran AO and Ms Jennifer Noyce; Professor Stephen Parker and Dr Rhian Parker; Dr Ron Radford AM; Mr Bill Robinson AO and Mrs Shirley Robinson; Mr Jim Varghese AM and Mrs Pauline Varghese; Emeritus Professor David Weisbrot and Mrs Faith Weisbrot; and Ms Helen Williams AO.