‘Whatever,let the purge begin’. Some Coalition MPs think a new parliamentary watchdog would be used to pursue vendettas,but Lidia Thorpe says it should be a lot tougher.
The crowd loved hearing about the arts minister’s love for Leonard Bernstein’s musical. They were less thrilled that Scott Morrison was in the house.
Nationals leader David Littleproud has declared he has the confidence of the party room amid rumblings of a challenge from the camp of Barnaby Joyce.
Australia’s offshore oil and gas industry is waking up to a new reality beset with higher regulatory hurdles and plunging political and community support.
The former government denied the extension of a gas permit and is now being sued in the Federal Court by private company Asset Energy.
Joyce said the Nationals risked losing its extra cabinet minister and staff they “weren’t entitled to” if he pushed back on Scott Morrison’s encroachment into the resources portfolio.
Many questions have been raised about former prime minister Scott Morrison’s move to secretly have himself appointed to several other ministries.
It is extraordinary,but not unknown,for prime ministers to inhabit multiple ministerial roles.
The Albanese government is exploring the possibility that the former prime minister may have had been appointed to other ministerial roles.
Now we know how far Morrison went to centralise power. Thinking he did not really need his ministers,he had himself sworn into their jobs.
Woodside is committed to its $17 billion Scarborough gas project but faces opposition from Traditional Custodians and a new look at carbon emissions before it gains approval to start construction offshore.