The former treasurer has no realistic way to contest the next election. Could he try for Kooyong later? The truth is that nobody gets a smooth elevation to the top.
Could it be that a boundary redistribution was a pretext to Fryden-float this balloon of an idea of a return to politics for the former treasurer?
Progressive women in the party are being told to know their place,or fight on the right side of the culture wars,or stay quiet. If not,they’re elbowed out and have their noses rubbed in their defeat.
To turn around Liberals’ worst level of female representation in 30 years,an outgoing ex-minister is calling for a radical rule change.
New sex discrimination commissioner Anna Cody has described as “appalling” claims by former home affairs minister Karen Andrews that an MP breathed down her neck.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called on Peter Dutton to co-operate with a government probe into the offshore detention contracts scandal engulfing the opposition leader’s former home affairs ministry.
Karen Andrews says her former department needs reshaping and time might be up for its long-serving head,Mike Pezzullo.
The number of Liberal women in the lower house in federal parliament is at its lowest level since 1993,and former cabinet minister Karen Andrews says urgent action is needed.
Peter Dutton reassured the party it was suffering the normal fortunes of the electoral cycle,but unless it can attract more women,they will be out.
After quitting the Coalition cabinet on Tuesday,the Liberal MP said the party was distracted by the Voice to parliament debate.
The reshuffle is designed to strengthen Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s campaign against the Voice to parliament.