Speakers
The following have addressed a joint session of parliament:
| Date | Dignitary | Office |
|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2011 | David Cameron | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
| 26 May 2010 | Felipe Calderón | President of Mexico |
| 26 May 2008 | Viktor Yushchenko | President of Ukraine |
| 22 September 2006 | Hamid Karzai | President of Afghanistan |
| 18 May 2006 | John Howard | Prime Minister of Australia |
| 25 October 2004 | Vicente Fox | President of Mexico |
| 9 March 2004 | Kofi Annan | Secretary General of the United Nations |
| 22 February 2001 | Tony Blair | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
| 29 April 1999 | Václav Havel | President of the Czech Republic |
| 24 September 1998 | Nelson Mandela | President of South Africa |
| 11 June 1996 | Ernesto Zedillo | President of Mexico |
| 23 February 1995 | Bill Clinton | President of the United States |
| 19 June 1992 | Boris Yeltsin | President of Russia |
| 8 April 1991 | Carlos Salinas de Gortari | President of Mexico |
| 18 June 1990 | Nelson Mandela | Deputy President of the African National Congress |
| 11 October 1989 | Hussein | King of Jordan |
| 27 June 1989 | Chaim Herzog | President of Israel |
| 22 June 1988 | Margaret Thatcher | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
| 16 June 1988 | Helmut Kohl | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany |
| 10 May 1988 | Beatrix | Queen of the Netherlands |
| 25 May 1987 | François Mitterrand | President of France |
| 6 April 1987 | Ronald Reagan | President of the United States |
| 13 January 1986 | Yasuhiro Nakasone | Prime Minister of Japan |
| 7 March 1985 | Javier Pérez de Cuéllar | Secretary General of the United Nations |
| 8 May 1984 | Miguel de la Madrid | President of Mexico |
| 17 January 1984 | Zhao Ziyang | Premier of the People's Republic of China |
| 26 September 1983 | Margaret Thatcher | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
| 11 March 1981 | Ronald Reagan | President of the United States |
| 26 May 1980 | José López Portillo | President of Mexico |
| 5 May 1980 | Masayoshi Ohira | Prime Minister of Japan |
| 19 June 1973 | Indira Gandhi | Prime Minister of India |
| 30 March 1973 | Luis Echeverría | President of Mexico |
| 14 April 1972 | Richard Nixon | President of the United States |
| 26 May 1964 | U Thant | Secretary General of the United Nations |
| 17 May 1961 | John F. Kennedy | President of the United States |
| 21 July 1958 | Kwame Nkrumah | Prime Minister of Ghana |
| 9 July 1958 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | President of the United States |
| 13 June 1958 | Harold Macmillan | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
| 2 June 1958 | Theodor Heuss | President of West Germany |
| 4 March 1957 | Guy Mollet | Prime Minister of France |
| 5 June 1956 | Sukarno | President of Indonesia |
| 5 March 1956 | Giovanni Gronchi | President of Italy |
| 6 February 1956 | Anthony Eden | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
| 14 November 1953 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | President of the United States |
| 5 April 1951 | Vincent Auriol | President of France |
| 31 May 1950 | Liaquat Ali Khan | Prime Minister of Pakistan |
| 24 October 1949 | Jawaharlal Nehru | Prime Minister of India |
| 11 June 1947 | Harry S. Truman | President of the United States |
| 19 November 1945 | Clement Attlee | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
| 30 June 1944 | Peter Fraser | Prime Minister of New Zealand |
| 1 June 1944 | John Curtin | Prime Minister of Australia |
| 16 June 1943 | Chiang Kai-shek | President of the Republic of China |
| 3 June 1943 | Edvard Beneš | President of Czechoslovakia |
| 30 December 1941 | Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
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