A 13-member sport diplomacy council with former top Australian athletes aimed at boosting ties in the Pacific appears to have been quietly unwound by Labor.
The process to replace former foreign affairs minister Marise Payne in the Senate has officially begun,with two former federal MPs attempting to revive their political careers.
Senior right-wing NSW Liberals and former prime minister Tony Abbott are encouraging Zed Seselja to put his hand up to replace veteran senator Marise Payne.
Our reporters have uncovered a cache of messages,sent by Home Affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo to a Liberal powerbroker,where he tried to protect his allies and denigrate his enemies.
The Country Liberal Senator and leading No campaigner has been travelling. A lot.
Unsurprisingly,the spectacular policy fail that will define Marise Payne’s tenure as foreign minister doesn’t get a look-in in her resignation statement.
Payne is Australia’s longest-serving female senator and was the first woman to be given carriage of the defence portfolio.
Speculation is mounting the former foreign minister will announce retirement from politics imminently,sparking a hotly contested preselection for her Senate seat.
Ziggy Switkowski’s report,commissioned after the tax leak scandal,is set to drop right around grand final weekend. Talk about taking out the trash.
One of the No campaign’s leading figures,Nyunggai Warren Mundine,has emerged as a favourite to replace Liberal senator Marise Payne once she exits politics.