Senate Proceedings - Senator Henderson's First Speech & Senator Sinodinos's Valedictory Speech
Channel: Australian Parliament Fan
Date: 2020-05-01

Senator Sarah Henderson was appointed to represent Victoria in the Senate after Senator Mitch Fifield resigned after being appointed as the Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations. Since Senator Henderson previously served in Parliament as the Member for Corangamite, this is technically her second first speech! At least, this is her first speech in the upper house.

Senator Arthur Sinodinos has served as a Senator for New South Wales since 13 October 2011, having notably served as chief of staff to former Prime Minister John Howard between 1997 and 2006. In 2017, Senator Sinodinos took leave to recover from stage four lymphoma. Senator Sinodinos resigned from the Senate to become the Australian Ambassador to the United States after Joe Hockey's term ends. 

On 16 October 2019, Senator Henderson made her first speech in the Senate and Senator Sinodinos made his final one. The transcript of this sitting can be found here: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansard_Display?bid=chamber/hansards/c92293ca-4acc-45b9-99aa-7249ef981524/&sid=0000

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