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

I inform the House that the Minister for Veterans' Affairs, Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, Minister for Indigenous Health and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on the Centenary of Anzac will be absent from question time today. He is attending the presentation of the Unit Citation for Gallantry that we both just referred to in the remarks relating to the Vietnam memorial, so he is at Enoggera in Brisbane with the Governor-General. The Minister for Defence will answer questions in relation to defence science and personnel. The Minister for Health and Ageing will answer questions in relation to Indigenous health and the Minister for Defence Materiel will answer questions in relation to veterans' affairs and the Centenary of Anzac on his behalf.

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