Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I inform the Senate that Senator Arbib, the Minister for Sport, Minister for Indigenous Employment and Economic Development and Minister for Social Housing and Homelessness, will be absent from question time today through to Wednesday.

Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern and Remote Australia) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thought that you were being replaced.

Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I will be getting more responsibilities, actually. During Senator Arbib's absence, I will take questions relating to the Indigenous Employment and Economic Development portfolio and to the Housing and Homelessness portfolio. Senator Conroy will take questions relating to the Sport portfolio. Senator Sherry will take questions relating to the Human Services portfolio and the Arts portfolio.