A royal go to is on the playing cards as a part of a program of occasions to mark the two hundredth birthday of the NSW Parliament.
The “much-anticipated” tour in 2024 would be the spotlight of bicentenary celebrations for Australia’s first legislative physique, the NSW Legislative Council, which is now also referred to as the higher home.
An announcement issued by the NSW Parliament didn’t say which royals shall be visiting however there was earlier hypothesis that King Charles will journey to Australia early in his reign.
“It was through the first royal tour to Australia in 1954 that Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II paid a go to to the NSW Parliament and christened it Australia’s ‘Mom Parliament’,” the assertion issued on Tuesday mentioned.
The Legislative Council was established in 1823 and held its first assembly in 1824.
“In celebrating the bicentenary of the Legislative Council, we rejoice its function in our parliamentary democracy,” NSW Governor Margaret Beazley mentioned.
Legislative Council President Matthew Mason-Cox mentioned the institution of the parliament was “Australia’s magical Magna Carta second, the primary restraint on the autocratic energy of the early governors that has developed into parliament as we all know it at the moment”.
A program of occasions shall be held main as much as the two hundredth anniversary of the council’s first assembly in 2024.