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

I inform the Senate that Senator Kemp, Minister for the Arts and Sport, will be absent from question time today and for the rest of this week. Senator Kemp will be absent due to his attendance on behalf of the Australian government at the soccer world cup in Germany and a sports policy summit being held in the Netherlands. We are all very jealous of him! During Senator Kemp’s absence, Senator Coonan has agreed to take questions relating to arts and sport. Senator Santoro, whom I welcome back, has agreed to take questions relating to families, community services and Indigenous affairs, and Senator Ellison will take questions on human services.