Procedure and House Affairs committee  He would not necessarily; that's right. It's much more organic when you have a discussion with aboriginal people about what's coming out of their mouths, which is not necessarily something they are reading from.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, the situation is the same. When we did our survey a little more than a year ago, all the legislatures only allowed the speaking of a language other than English by leave. We're the only one we know of that actually has a standing order now that has a set of rules around it. W

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Okay. Best of luck. Thank you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There are rules of the court, for example; an aboriginal interpreter service will be used for a person who is appearing before a court and needs to speak in their first language, their aboriginal language. The aboriginal interpreter service is a well-funded, large service, with

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That would be highly disorderly. That would be a matter for the assembly itself to determine. Of course, the Speaker has pulled up the member from Nhulunbuy. The member from Nhulunbuy has done that on one occasion. The Speaker didn't interrupt him; she let him speak and afterwa

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There is a written form. It's interesting. When we look at all this, the way that the Inuit language is being put into syllabic form is very interesting, but of course here it has just been a transliteration using the European alphabet. There is, then, a written form, but of co

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We have 25 seats in our Parliament. In our Parliament we have six aboriginal members, in this assembly.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In the country, I'm not sure.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In Northern Territory, we have an estimate that it's between 100 and 130 languages or subdialects of aboriginal languages, but when we are talking to people in East Arnhem, they will have subdialects and there will be a community not far from another community that will speak a d

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In the Australian Parliament I don't think so. There's certainly not here in the Northern Territory Parliament. We don't have any infrastructure in place that provides a booth or services or earpieces or any of that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That is correct; there is a standing order that would permit that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You have to provide what you said, whatever that is, and it's on trust. It's not done by an independent service.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  They are to speak in English first or table a copy of the English words first. This was the matter of controversy, as to whether it should be first in English or first in your own language. The member from Nhulunbuy has said he speaks in his own language first, and English comes