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

I inform the Senate that Senator George Brandis, the Minister for the Arts and Sport, is absent from question time today—as, I guess, is obvious. Senator Brandis is fortunate enough to be representing Australia at the World Anti-Dumping Agency meeting in Montreal in Canada. I am sure we all wish we were with him. During Senator Brandis’s absence, Senator Helen Coonan has agreed to take questions in relation to the Arts and Sport and the Education, Science and Training portfolios.