Senator ABETZ (Tasmania—Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) (02:32): I move: That the Senate— (a) notes the Speaker of the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly, the Right Honourable James Wani Igga, announced the Declaration of Independence Act for South Sudan on 9 July 2011; and (b) congratulates the world's newest state, the Republic of South Sudan, on its 1st anniversary on 9 July 2012. Question agreed to.