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TheClerk of theHouse of Representatives of theParliament ofAustralia is responsible for managing the ParliamentaryDepartment of the House of Representatives. The Clerk is a non-elected administrative officer under theParliamentary Service Act 1999.^[1]^[2] The term of the Clerk of the House of Representatives is now limited by law to 10 years. On 12 August 2019, Claressa Surtees became the first female Clerk of the House.

The Department of the House of Representatives provides services to support the efficient conduct of the House of Representatives, its committees and certain joint committees as well as a range of services and facilities for House Members in theAustralian Parliament House inCanberra,Australian Capital Territory. The Department also undertakes activities to promote the work of the House in the community and is responsible for the conduct of the Parliament's international and regional relations.^[3] The Clerk of the Australian House of Representatives conducts the election for Speaker.

The Department of the House of Representatives is not part of the Executive Government of Australia, being instead responsible to theSpeaker of the Australian House of Representatives, who has accountability obligations for the department to the House of Representatives.

Since 1999, the terms of the Clerk of the House of Representatives and theClerk of the Senate have been limited to 10 years. The change did not apply to the incumbents.

Clerks of the House

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There have been 16 Clerks of the House. The longest-serving wasFrank Green, who held the position for over 18 years.^[4] The shortest-serving was John McGregor, who held the position for 27 days. He collapsed while the House was speaking on a condolence motion for his predecessor Walter Gale, who had died in office a month earlier. McGregor was taken to Canberra Hospital where he died.^[5]

George Henry Jenkins, the clerk of theVictorian Legislative Assembly, was seconded to the Federal Parliament for its first few months and acted as Clerk of the House during that time before the position was filled permanently.^[4]

#	Clerk	Term start	Term end	Duration
–	SirGeorge Henry Jenkins CMG(acting)	1 May 1901	6 July 1901	66 days
1	Charles Cashel Gavan Duffy CMG	8 July 1901	31 January 1917	15 years, 207 days
2	Walter Augustus Gale CMG	1 February 1917	27 July 1927	10 years, 176 days
3	John Robert McGregor	1 September 1927	28 September 1927	27 days
4	Ernest William Parkes CMG	27 October 1927	22 March 1937	9 years, 146 days
5	Frank Clifton Green CBE MC	23 March 1937	25 June 1955	18 years, 94 days
6	Albert Allan Tregear CBE	27 June 1955	31 December 1958	3 years, 187 days
7	Sir Alan George Turner CBE	1 January 1959	10 December 1971	12 years, 343 days
8	Norman James Parkes CBE	11 December 1971	31 December 1976	5 years, 20 days
9	John Athol Pettifer CBE	1 January 1977	15 July 1982	5 years, 195 days
10	Douglas Maurice BlakeAM VRD	16 July 1982	30 July 1985	3 years, 14 days
11	Alan Robert Browning	31 July 1985	22 March 1991	5 years, 234 days
12	Lyndal McAlpin Barlin AM	23 March 1991	26 July 1997	6 years, 125 days
13	Ian Charles HarrisAO	27 July 1997	4 December 2009	12 years, 130 days
14	Bernard Clive Wright AO	4 December 2009	31 December 2013	4 years, 27 days
15	David Russell Elder	1 January 2014	9 August 2019	5 years, 220 days
16	Claressa Anne Surtees	12 August 2019	Incumbent	6 years, 95 days

References

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^Practice
^Parliamentary Service Act 1999
^Department of the House of Representatives
^^a ^b"Appendix 5—Clerks of the House of Representatives". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved29 December 2018.
^"Tragic Scene in Parliament - Death of Mr J.R. McGregor".The Sydney Morning Herald. 29 September 1927.

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