Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance and Administration) Share this | Hansard source

I inform the Senate that Senator the Hon. Santo Santoro, Minister for Ageing, will be absent from question time today, tomorrow and Thursday. Senator Santoro is representing the Australian government at the first World Elder Abuse Awareness Day global symposium at the UN in New York. Senator Santoro will also be representing the Australian government at a memorial service to be held in Washington for the 40 US servicemen killed in 1943 in Australia’s worst aviation disaster at Bakers Creek near Mackay in Queensland. During Senator Santoro’s absence, Senator the Hon. Eric Abetz will take questions on behalf of the portfolios of Health and Ageing.