Senate debates Ministerial Arrangements


Mathias Cormann

Mathias Cormann WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance

2:00 pm

by leave—I advise the Senate that Senator Cash, the Minister for Jobs and Innovation, will be absent from question time today, Tuesday, 26 June, until Thursday, 28 June, inclusive due to overseas ministerial business. In Senator Cash's absence, Senator Canavan will represent the Minister for Jobs and Innovation, and the Minister for Small and Family Business, the Workplace and Deregulation; Senator Fifield will represent the Attorney-General; and Senator Payne will represent the Minister for Women, and the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service.