Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance and Administration) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—I am pleased to inform the Senate that Senator Stephen Parry has been elected as Government Whip in the Senate, replacing Senator Jeannie Ferris, and Senator Julian McGauran has been elected as Deputy Government Whip in the Senate.

Opposition Senators:

Opposition senators interjecting—

Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance and Administration) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I congratulate Senator McGauran.

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Paul Calvert (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! I am glad that Senator McGauran has received those congratulatory messages from the opposition side of the chamber.