Former Liberal Party state president Maria Kovacic will enter the Senate after edging out former state treasurer and transport minister Andrew Constance.
Former shock jock Alan Jones was set to be booted from the invite-only club. A grovelling phone call from the Qantas boss changed that.
Dutton assured MPs that the party’s opposition to the Voice would not look uncaring because the Liberals were proposing their own form of Indigenous recognition.
The timing could prove awkward for Mundine,who is a leading campaigner against the referendum for the Indigenous Voice to parliament.
A beaming Gladys Berejiklian has appeared for the first time on the election campaign trail in one of the Liberal Party’s most at-risk seats.
The former foreign affairs minister has kept a low profile since the May election,rarely appearing in the media or speaking in parliament.
Australian lobster farmers and winemakers are attracting interest from Chinese importers,the first sign of a potential withdrawal of $20 billion in trade strikes from Beijing.
The former PM said that if he had been given the information “in the way that I’ve now seen it ... then I doubt we’d be sitting here today”.
Advice stating the scheme needed legislative change had been erased from the brief presented to the Coalition’s razor gang for sign off,the royal commission heard on Tuesday.
The Ombudsman collaborated extensively with the Department of Human Services and its investigation into the agency in 2017,the royal commission has heard.
Former prime minister Scott Morrison and Marise Payne,a former minister for human services,will appear before the robo-debt royal commission in the next fortnight.