Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Payman. Of course, I'm not going to commit another minister to a particular meeting. That probably wouldn't be a very well-received thing to do. But I'm sure Minister Burke will consider your request. I know that he is very deeply engaged in his portfolio since taking it on a couple of weeks ago, and I know that, like all of us—all of the cabinet and all of the ministry—he is very much looking forward to going to Western Australia, a state that we know expressed a lot of support for a Labor government at the last federal election and that we have maintained regular contact with, either because, in some cases, we live there or because we visit there regularly. So I'm sure Minister Burke, like all of us, will be very keen to be at the cabinet meeting, and I'm sure he'll take up your request and consider it.