A new ministerial line up will be announced on Sunday as the government seeks to build momentum against the Coalition.
Malarndirri McCarthy and Murray Watt are set to be promoted in a ministerial reshuffle Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will use to refresh his front bench as he seeks to build momentum against the Coalition ahead of the next federal election.
Senator Brown resigned from her portfolio responsibilities due to health reasons but will remain in parliament. Her resignation follows those ofKey to the prime minister’s reshuffle is a reset in the home affairs and immigration portfolios where Labor has been under pressure over its response to the High Court’s contentious NZYQ ruling that freed asylum seekers from indefinite detention last year.
Giles will remain in the outer ministry, however, possibly with the portfolio of veterans affairs and defence materiel, while O’Neil, an ambitious minister, could be moved to housing, another area where the government has failed to dominate public debate on an issue that is white-hot among voters. NSW MP Andrew Charlton and Victorian MPs Kate Thwaites, Jess Walsh, Jana Stewart and Raff Ciccone are also in the mix for promotion, according to sources who asked not to be named so they could discuss the reshuffle.Finance Minister Katy Gallagher said the new line-up would allow the government to take fresh faces to the next federal election, due in the first half of 2025.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton continued to demonstrate the Coalition’s determination to go after the performance of O’Neil and Giles.
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