§ First Report of the Select Committee brought up, and read;
§ Leave to the Committee to make a Special Report.
§ Special Report brought up, and read, as followeth:
§ Your Committee have also examined the Petition of the people of the State of Western Australia, through the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of Western Australia, for legislation to enable them to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Australia, presented to the House on the 17th day of this instant December. As it appears to your Committee uncertain whether the House should receive this Petition, they have not included it in their Report, but recommend that a Select Committee be appointed to consider the Petition and to report upon the advisability of its reception by the House.
§ Report and Special Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed.