Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—I inform the Senate that Senator Wong, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, will be absent from question time this week for personal reasons, and Senator Farrell, the Minister for Trade and Tourism, will be absent from question time this week on account of ministerial business overseas. In the absence of Senator Wong and Senator Farrell, I will be the Acting Leader of the Government in the Senate and ministers will represent portfolios at question time in accordance with the letter circulated to the President, party leaders and independent senators.