Portfolio promise from Pitt

DOMINIC GEIGER future cabinet discussions about a number of different matters.”

Mr Pitt listed one of his major achievements while in the role as the creation of “ministerial champions” for Queensland’s discrete indigenous communities.

“That can only enhance the broader government’s understanding of the issues people are facing,” he said.

A Labor Senator between 2008 and 2014, Mr Furner said although he might be new to the Palaszczuk cabinet, he wasn’t a “new kid on the block” in terms of indigenous affairs.

“Seeing the ninth Closing the Gap report this week ... we need to do better and tirelessly work until we do close the gap on those initiatives,” Mr Furner said.