Senate debates
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Ministerial Arrangements
5:02 pm
Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
by leave—I have the honour to inform the Senate that, following the election held on 24 November 2007 in which the Australian Labor Party was elected to government, the Governor-General commissioned the Prime Minister to form a government. Ministers and parliamentary secretaries were appointed on 3 December 2007. For the information of honourable senators, I have a list of the full ministry. The document lists all ministers and parliamentary secretaries and the offices they hold. It shows those ministers who comprise the cabinet and provides details of representation arrangements in each chamber. I seek leave to have the document incorporated in Hansard.
Leave granted.
The document read as follows—
FIRST RUDD MINISTRY
Cabinet
Prime Minister | The Honourable Kevin Michael Rudd, MP |
Minister for Education Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Minister for Social Inclusion Deputy Prime Minister | The Honourable Julia Eileen Gillard, MP |
Treasurer | The Honourable Wayne Maxwell Swan, MP |
Minister for Immigration and Citizenship | Senator the Honourable Christopher Vaughan Evans |
| Vice-President of the Executive Council | Senator the Honourable John Philip Faulkner |
Minister for Trade | The Honourable Simon Findlay Crean, MP |
Minister for Foreign Affairs | The Honourable Stephen Francis Smith, MP |
Minister for Defence | The Honourable Joel Andrew Fitzgibbon, MP |
Minister for Health and Ageing | The Honourable Nicola Louise Roxon, MP |
Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs | The Honourable Jennifer Louise Macklin, MP |
Minister for Finance and Deregulation | The Honourable Lindsay James Tanner, MP |
Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government Leader of the House | The Honourable Anthony Norman Albanese, MP |
Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate | Senator the Honourable Stephen Michael Conroy |
Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research | Senator the Honourable Kim John Carr |
Minister for Climate Change and Water | Senator the Honourable Penelope Ying Yen Wong |
Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts | The Honourable Peter Robert Garrett, AM, MP |
Attorney-General | The Honourable Robert Bruce McClelland, MP |
Minister for Human Services Manager of Government Business in the Senate | Senator the Honourable Joseph William Ludwig |
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry | The Honourable Anthony Stephen Burke, MP |
Minister for Resources and Energy Minister for Tourism | The Honourable Martin John Ferguson, AM, MP |
Outer Ministry
Minister for Home Affairs | The Honourable Robert John Debus, MP |
Assistant Treasurer Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs | The Honourable Christopher Eyles Bowen, MP |
Minister for Veterans’ Affairs | The Honourable Alan Peter Griffin, MP |
Minister for Housing Minister for the Status of Women | The Honourable Tanya Joan Plibersek, MP |
Minister for Employment Participation | The Honourable Brendan Patrick John O’Connor, MP |
Minister for Defence Science and Personnel | The Honourable Warren Edward Snowdon, MP |
Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy Minister Assisting the Finance Minister on Deregulation | The Honourable Dr Craig Anthony Emerson, MP |
Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law | Senator the Honourable Nicholas John Sherry |
Minister for Ageing | The Honourable Maria Justine Elliot, MP |
Minister for Youth Minister for Sport | The Honourable Katherine Margaret Ellis, MP |
Parliamentary Secretary for Early Childhood Education and Childcare | The Honourable Maxine Margaret McKew, MP |
Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Procurement | The Honourable Gregory Ivan Combet, AM, MP |
Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Support | The Honourable Dr Michael Joseph Kelly, AM, MP |
Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Development and Northern Australia | The Honourable Gary Gray, AO, MP |
Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children’s Services | The Honourable William Richard Shorten, MP |
Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance | The Honourable Robert Francis McMullan, MP |
Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs | The Honourable Duncan James Colquhoun Kerr, SC, MP |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister | The Honourable Anthony Michael Byrne, MP |
Parliamentary Secretary for Social Inclusion and the Voluntary Sector Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Prime Minister for Social Inclusion | Senator the Honourable Ursula Mary Stephens |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Trade | The Honourable John Paul Murphy, MP |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing | Senator the Honourable Jan Elizabeth McLucas |
Parliamentary Secretary for Multicultural Affairs and Settlement Services | The Honourable Laurie Donald Thomas Ferguson, MP |
MINISTERIAL REPRESENTATION
Minister | Representing |
Senator the Honourable Chris Evans Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Leader of the Government in the Senate | Prime Minister Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Minister for Housing Minister for Sport |
Senator the Honourable John Faulkner Special Minister of State Cabinet Secretary | Minister for Trade Minister for Foreign Affairs Minister for Defence Minister for Veterans’ Affairs Minister for Defence Science and Personnel |
Senator the Honourable Stephen Conroy Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate | Treasurer Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government Assistant Treasurer |
Senator the Honourable Kim Carr Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research | Minister for Education Minister for Resources and Energy Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy |
Senator the Honourable Penny Wong Minister for Climate Change and Water | Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Minister for Social Inclusion Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts Minister for the Status of Women Minister for Employment Participation Minister for Youth |
Senator the Honourable Joe Ludwig Minister for Human Services Manager of Government Business in the Senate | Minister for Health and Ageing Attorney-General Minister for Home Affairs Minister for Ageing |
Senator the Honourable Nick Sherry Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law | Minister for Finance and Deregulation Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Minister for Tourism Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs |
I would also like to inform the House that Senator Kerry O’Brien has been appointed Government Whip in the Senate and that Senator Dana Wortley and Senator Ruth Webber have been appointed Deputy Government Whips in the Senate.
I would like to congratulate all our frontbenchers on their election to the roles of ministers and parliamentary secretaries and place on record my thanks to other members of the government team who served on the front bench—some of them over a long period of time—over the years we were in opposition for the contribution they made to the election of the Rudd Labor government. I would also like to congratulate the Northern Territory and ACT senators on their re-election to the parliament, and I would like to acknowledge the election of Senator Minchin as Leader of the Opposition in the Senate—a job which I hope he holds for many years—and Senator Abetz likewise as Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate.
Mr President, I thank you for the manner in which you conducted the welcome to country ceremony today and I thank the officers of the parliament for their cooperation in facilitating it. I think it brought great credit to the parliament and its officers. I also acknowledge the role that Senator George Campbell played as a whip and thank him for his services.
There is one final thankyou: I understand that one of our favourite attendants, Lorna Lane, is giving it away at the end of the week. On behalf of the government, I would like to acknowledge her contribution to the parliament and wish her all the best.