Georgia Drake, Sally Lavers and Samantha Moody will be based in Apia, Samoa for the next 12 months.
They are in the country under the youth stream of the Australian Volunteers for International Development program, an Australian government initiative.
They are all on assignment with the Office of the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly (O.C.L.A) as part of the Samoa Parliamentary Support Project (S.P.S.P).
Ms. Lavers and Ms. Moody are both graphic designers, volunteering to assist Parliamentary community engagement through the development of communications design alongside the local team. Ms. Lavers will be in the Hansard team as a Print Media Design Advisor. She will provide advice and conduct training in communications and design for the new Palemene newspaper.
Ms. Moody will work with the Community Relations team as a Graphic Design Officer. She will be assisting the team in creating a range of promotional media for schools, youth, women and the general public about the workings of the Parliament of Samoa.
Ms. Drake will be based in the Legal and Research Office as the Legal Research Advisor. She will provide assistance and training in local staff’s provision of legal research and legal advice to Parliamentary Committee members.
Ms. Drake and Ms. Moody come from Sydney and Ms. Lavers comes from Canberra. Ms. Drake has been working as a lawyer in Sydney for the past two years following a year spent working as a researcher for a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
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Ms. Moody completed her studies at the College of Fine Arts in Sydney and graduated with a double major in graphic and jewellery design.
She has been practicing as a graphic designer and illustrator in Sydney, working for a range of corporate and private clients.
Ms. Lavers completed her double bachelor’s degree in Communications and Media Studies and Graphic Design at the University of Wollongong, and has worked in both communications and graphic design for various Australian companies across a wide range of disciplines.
All three women are very excited to be here, and looking forward to working with local staff at the Office of the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly.
The staff of O.C.L.A in turn appreciates the opportunity to learn from the attachments.
The Speaker of Parliament and Chairman of the S.P.S.P Board, La’auli Leuatea Polata’ivao expressed gratitude to the government of Australia for making these attachments possible especially the continuous and generous support to the development of the Parliament of Samoa, extended not only through the S.P.S.P but also the Pacific Parliamentary Partnership (PPP) coordinated by the International and Community Relations Office of the Parliament of Australia.
Special mention also went out to Ms. Frances Schuster and the Austraining International Office for facilitating the attachments.
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