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

by leave—I inform the Senate that Senator Coonan, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts will be absent from question time today. Senator Coonan is in Adelaide delivering the keynote address at the South Korea, Australia and New Zealand Broadband Summit. During Senator Coonan’s absence, Senator Kemp will take questions relating to the Communications, Information Technology and the Arts portfolio and questions on behalf of the Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer. He will do so very capably, I am sure. Senator Vanstone will take questions on behalf of the Minister assisting the Prime Minister for Women’s Issues. I will answer questions on the Foreign Affairs and Trade portfolio.