Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I inform the House that the Minister for Trade will be absent from question time for the next sitting fortnight to attend meetings of APEC trade ministers in the United States and meetings of the OECD in Paris. The Minister for Foreign Affairs will answer questions on his behalf. The Minister for Veterans' Affairs, Defence Science and Personnel and Minister for Indigenous Health will also be absent from question time as he is returning from leading a veterans' delegation to mark the 70th anniversary of the Greece and Crete campaigns. The Minister for Defence will answer questions in relation to defence science and personnel, the Minister for Defence Materiel will answer questions in relation to veterans' affairs, and the Minister for Mental Health and Ageing will answer questions in relation to Indigenous health on his behalf.

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