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 Bob Carr, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, will be absent from the Senate this week. As a result, we have sought to allocate his responsibilities at question time. Senator Conroy will represent him in his foreign affairs portfolio and in his representative portfolio of trade and competitiveness. I will represent him in his role representing the ministers for defence, defence materiel, veterans' affairs, and defence science and personnel.