Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—I advise the Senate that subsequent to the election I have been elected as Leader of the Opposition in the Senate for the Labor Party—on this occasion we are the opposition. I also advise the Senate that my Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate is Senator Stephen Conroy—well known to the chamber—and Senator Moore has agreed to serve as Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate, for which we thank her most gratefully. I further advise the Senate that Senator McEwan will be continuing as our chief whip, ably assisted in the deputy opposition whip positions by Senators Urquhart and Bilyk.

We look forward as the opposition in this 44th Parliament to holding this government to account and look forward to what I am sure will be a robust debate in this place. I do, however, congratulate Senator Abetz and those who serve as ministers of the Crown. It is a great privilege to serve as a minister of the Crown for the Commonwealth of Australia.

I also seek leave to have incorporated in Hansard the full list of Labor's shadow ministry.

Leave granted.

The document read as follows—

SHADOW MINISTRY

18 October 2013