MINISTRY

Senator FARRELL (South Australia—Minister for Trade and Tourism, Special Minister of State and Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:00): by leave—I inform the Senate that Senator Wong, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Leader of the Government in the Senate, will be absent from question time today and tomorrow on account of ministerial business overseas.

During Senator Wong's absence, I will be the Acting Leader of the Government in the Senate. Ministers will represent portfolios at question time in accordance with the letter circulated to the President, party leaders and independent senators.