Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

I will explain how arrangements work within the portfolio. I haven't been in the habit of sharing individual representations that members make to ministers—but if we go down that path, we go down that path—but every member here makes representations. When I take on this portfolio and representations are made, I will have a similar arrangement to that which I had when I last took on the portfolio in 2013, which is that, for anything with respect to my electorate, I will have to make representation either to a different minister or to the secretary of my department. The responsible minister who deals with all ministerial interventions of that form, which I would make in behalf of my electorate, is the assistant minister. For anything in his electorate, he would write to me.

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