Senate debates
Monday, 15 June 2009
Ministerial Arrangements
2:00 pm
Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
I table for the information of the Senate a revised ministry list reflecting changes to the ministry following the resignations of the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP as the Minister for Defence, the Hon. Bob Debus MP as the Minister for Home Affairs and Senator the Hon. Jan McLucas as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing.
The Prime Minister has acknowledged the contribution made by Mr Fitzgibbon, Mr Debus and Senator McLucas to this government and our reform agenda and has thanked them for their service. Personally, I would like to thank Senator McLucas for her contribution to the government in her role as parliamentary secretary, and I look forward to her ongoing contribution to the parliament and to the Rudd Labor government. I also take this opportunity to congratulate Senator Mark Arbib on his elevation to the ministry. I know he will do an excellent job as Minister for Employment Participation. I know he is looking forward to question time as much as I am.
I seek leave to have the new ministry list incorporated in Hansard.
Leave granted.
The document read as follows—
RUDD MINISTRY
9 June 2009
Title | Minister | Other Chamber |
Prime Minister | The Hon Kevin Rudd MP | Senator the Hon Chris Evans |
Minister for Climate Change and Water | Senator the Hon Penny Wong | The Hon Greg Combet AM MP The Hon Peter Garrett AM MP (Water) The Hon Lindsay Tanner MP |
| (Manager of Government Business in the Senate) | Senator the Hon Joe Ludwig | |
Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Chang | The Hon Greg Combet AM MP | |
Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Government Service Delivery | Senator the Hon Mark Arbib | |
Parliamentary Secretary | The Hon Anthony Byrne MP | |
Minister for Education | The Hon Julia Gillard MP | Senator the Hon Kim Carr |
Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations | The Hon Julia Gillard MP | Senator the Hon Mark Arbib |
Minister for Social Inclusion (Deputy Prime Minister) | The Hon Julia Gillard MP | Senator the Hon Mark Arbib |
Minister for Early Childhood Education, Childcare and Youth | The Hon Kate Ellis MP | Senator the Hon Mark Arbib |
Minister for Employment Participation | Senator the Hon Mark Arbib | The Hon Julia Gillard MP |
Parliamentary Secretary for Social Inclusion | Senator the Hon Ursula Stephens | |
Parliamentary Secretary for Employment | The Hon Jason Clare MP | |
Treasurer | The Hon Wayne Swan MP | Senator the Hon Nick Sherry |
Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law | The Hon Chris Bowen MP | Senator the Hon Nick Sherry |
Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs | The Hon Dr Craig Emerson MP | Senator the Hon Nick Sherry |
Assistant Treasurer | Senator the Hon Nick Sherry | The Hon Wayne Swan MP |
Minister for Immigration and Citizenship | Senator the Hon Chris Evans | The Hon Robert McClelland MP |
Parliamentary Secretary for Multicultural Affairs and Settlement Services | The Hon Laurie Ferguson MP | |
Minister for Defence (Vice President of the Executive Council) | Senator the Hon John Faulkner | The Hon Greg Combet AM MP |
Minister for Veterans’ Affairs | The Hon Alan Griffin MP | Senator the Hon John Faulkner |
Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science | The Hon Greg Combet AM MP | Senator the Hon John Faulkner |
Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Support | The Hon Dr Mike Kelly AM MP | |
Minister for Trade | The Hon Simon Crean MP | Senator the Hon Kim Carr |
Parliamentary Secretary for Trade | The Hon Anthony Byrne MP | |
Minister for Foreign Affairs | The Hon Stephen Smith MP | Senator the Hon John Faulkner |
Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs | The Hon Duncan Kerr SC MP | |
Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance | The Hon Bob McMullan MP | |
Minister for Health and Ageing | The Hon Nicola Roxon MP | Senator the Hon Joe Ludwig |
Minister for Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health and Regional Service Delivery | The Hon Warren Snowdon MP | Senator the Hon Joe Ludwig |
Minister for Ageing | The Hon Justine Elliot MP | Senator the Hon Joe Ludwig |
Minister for Sport | The Hon Kate Ellis MP | Senator the Hon Mark Arbib |
Parliamentary Secretary for Health | The Hon Mark Butler MP | |
Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs | The Hon Jenny Macklin MP | Senator the Hon Chris Evans |
Minister for Housing | The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP | Senator the Hon Chris Evans |
Minister for the Status of Women | The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP | Senator the Hon Penny Wong |
Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children’s Services | The Hon Bill Shorten MP | |
Parliamentary Secretary for Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction | The Hon Bill Shorten MP | |
Parliamentary Secretary for the Voluntary Sector | Senator the Hon Ursula Stephens | |
Minister for Finance and Deregulation | The Hon Lindsay Tanner MP Senator the Hon Joe Ludwig | Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy The Hon Lindsay Tanner MP |
Minister Assisting the Finance Minister on Deregulation | The Hon Dr Craig Emerson MP | |
Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government (Leader of the House) | The Hon Anthony Albanese MP | Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy |
Parliamentary Secretary for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government | The Hon Maxine McKew MP | |
Parliamentary Secretary for Western and Northern Australia | The Hon Gary Gray AO MP | |
Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) | Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy | The Hon Anthony Albanese MP |
Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research | Senator the Hon Kim Carr | The Hon Dr Craig Emerson MP The Hon Julia Gillard MP (Research) |
Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy | The Hon Dr Craig Emerson MP | Senator the Hon Kim Carr |
Parliamentary Secretary for Innovation and Industry | The Hon Richard Marles MP | |
Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts | The Hon Peter Garrett AM MP | Senator the Hon Penny Wong |
Parliamentary Secretary for Water | The Hon Dr Mike Kelly AM MP | |
Attorney-General | The Hon Robert McClelland MP | Senator the Hon Penny Wong |
Minister for Home Affairs | The Hon Brendan O’Connor MP | Senator the Hon Penny Wong |
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry | The Hon Tony Burke MP | Senator the Hon Nick Sherry |
Minister for Resources and Energy Minister for Tourism | The Hon Martin Ferguson AM MP The Hon Martin Ferguson AM MP | Senator the Hon Kim Carr Senator the Hon Penny Wong |
Minister for Human Services | The Hon Chris Bowen MP | Senator the Hon Joe Ludwig |
Each box represents a portfolio. Cabinet Ministers are shown in bold type. As a general rule, there is one department in each portfolio. However, there is a Department of Climate Change in the Prime Minister’s portfolio and a Department of Veterans’ Affairs in the Defence portfolio. The title of a department does not necessarily reflect the title of a minister in all cases.