Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—I advise the Senate that Senator Payne will be absent from question time today due to ministerial business overseas. In Senator Payne's absence, Senator Birmingham will represent the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Minister for Women, the Minister for International Development and the Pacific, the Attorney-General and the Minister for Industrial Relations.