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 Birmingham will be absent from question time today, Thursday 13 February 2020, due to ministerial business overseas. In Senator Birmingham's absence I will represent the Minister for the Environment and the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction; Senator Payne will represent the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment and the Minister Assisting the Minister for Trade and Investment; Senator Ruston will represent the Minister for Resources, Water and Northern Australia; and Senator Cash will represent the Minister for Education and the Minister for Decentralisation and Regional Education.

I further advise the Senate that Senator Reynolds will be absent from question time today due to ministerial business overseas. In Senator Reynolds's absence I will represent the Minister for Defence, the Minister for Veterans' Affairs and the Minister for Defence Personnel, the Assistant Minister for Defence and the Minister for Defence Industry; and Senator Ruston will represent the Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts.