The 2024 conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) is coming to Sydney! The NSW CPA Branch's nomination to host the world's largest international parliamentary gathering was endorsed on 26 August at the association's General Assembly in Halifax, Canada.
The conference will bring some 700 delegates from 53 Commonwealth countries to Sydney in November 2024, where they'll share best practice, forge connections and continue to work together to uphold and further parliamentary democracy.
Learn more about the CPA and the current 65th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference and CPA General Assembly in Halifax.
Being held in 2024, the upcoming conference will fall during the Bicentenary year of the NSW Legislative Council. Learn more about the Bicentenary.
Celebrating the announcement from left to right: Clerk of the
Parliaments David Blunt, Legislative Assembly Deputy Clerk Carly Maxwell,
President of the Legislative Council Matthew Mason-Cox, Commonwealth
Parliamentary Association Secretary-General Stephen Twigg and Speaker of the
Legislative Assembly Jonathan O'Dea.
The official opening of the 65th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in Halifax, Canada on 23 August 2022. Image courtesy of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.
