Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Henderson, I'd like to thank you personally for coming to the Sydney Institute last week to listen to my speech on trade. It was great to see you, and you might want to tell your colleagues the offer I made very publicly at that meeting.

In our government, we're an action government, and you've seen that in everything we've done—certainly in my space, the trade and tourism space and as the SMOS. But there is something unique about our prime minister in that he has trust in his ministers. So if he appoints you to be a minister then he gives you the responsibility of looking after that—