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SenateTuesday 22 July 2025

PARTY OFFICE HOLDERS

Senator WATERS (Queensland—Leader of the Australian Greens) (17:07): by leave—I advise the Senate that I've been elected as the Leader of the Australian Greens— Honourable senators: Hear, hear! Senator WATERS: thank you—and that Senator Faruqi has been elected as our deputy leader. I further advise that Senator Hanson-Young continues as our excellent manager of business, Senator McKim continues as our whip and Senator Allman-Payne is our deputy whip.

Congratulations to all of those office holders and to all of those in other parties as well. I table the Greens' office holder and portfolio responsibilities list for the 48th Parliament and seek leave to have it incorporated into Hansard. Leave granted.

The document read as follows— Member or Senator Portfolios Held Larissa Waters Leader of the Australian Greens Climate Change & Energy Women First Nations Mehreen Faruqi Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens Education—Tertiary Anti-racism Climate Adaptation, Resilience and Emergency Management International Aid and Global Justice Animal Welfare Republic Sarah Hanson-Young Manager of Business in the Senate Environment & Water Arts & Communications Nick McKim Senate Whip Economic Justice & Treasury Forests LGBTIQA+ Penny Allman-Payne Party Room Chair & Deputy Senate Whip Social Services Education—Primary & Secondary Older People Transition, Regional Development & Northern Australia Sport Peter Whish-Wilson Agriculture Science, Industry & Innovation Trade & Tourism Healthy Oceans Waste & Recycling Jordon Steele-John Health & Mental Health Disability Inclusion and the National Disability Insurance Scheme Youth Elizabeth Watson-Brown Transport, Infrastructure & Sustainable Cities Assistant for Veterans Affairs Barbara Pocock Housing & Homelessness Finance Workplace Relations, Jobs & Employment Public Sector David Shoebridge Foreign Affairs, Peace & Nuclear Disarmament Defence & Veterans Affairs Home Affairs, Immigration, Citizenship & Multicultural Affairs Justice Digital Rights & IT Steph Hodgins-May Early Childhood Education Democracy Resources Assistant for Climate Change & Energy

SourceSenate, Tuesday 22 July 2025 — official recordTA-250722-senate-83b07880ab46:s019