Liberal MP Andrew Hastie has pasted populist Western Australian Mark McGowan as “a prison guard looking for work” after the Premier was caught out bagging the federal MP during an official trip to China.
Tom McIlroy is the Financial Review’s Canberra bureau chief based in the press gallery at Parliament House. He was previously the AFR’s political correspondent. Connect with Tom on Twitter. Email Tom at thomas.mcilroy@afr.com