Senior Libs, Nats demoted as Coalition reunites
A Senior Liberal blamed by colleagues for the Opposition’s disastrous work from home election policy has been dumped from the frontbench.
A Senior Liberal blamed by colleagues for the Opposition’s disastrous work from home election policy has been dumped from the frontbench.
Former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has railed against suggestions the new opposition cabinet will be centred on “generational change” after he was axed from the frontbench.
The horror flooding of the Mid-North Coast and Hunter which has destroyed 800 homes has been deemed “catastrophic” by insurers, who have had almost 5000 claims lodged with them already.
The head of Australia’s peak Jewish body has fired back at former federal minister Ed Husic after he called for the government to haul in the Israeli ambassador over the Gaza conflict.
The Liberals and the Nationals are both preparing for heating leadership battles amid a civil war between the two Coalition partners over the defection of Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.
First-time MPs have including four new faces have flocked to parliament following factional fracas as Albanese calls for unity within the party.
A clearly emotional Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has addressed his team of Labor MPs for the first time, warning them to focus “out” on the Australian people and not on themselves, following a series of bruising factional meetings yesterday.
The loss has prompted Opposition leader Peter Dutton to break his ‘graceful silence’ and launch an attack on the Greens.
Two high-profile Labor figures have been dumped following the party’s landslide win, which opened the door to factional wheeling-and-dealing.
The race to be the next leader of the Liberals is narrowing. But whoever it is, they have a massive task on their hands.
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