The government thought it had navigated the new normal of an expanded crossbench. Then Senator Jacqui Lambie lobbed a grenade, leaving her party two short and a senior minister stepping back. What happens when parliament returns?
Michael Ferguson is no longer laughing as he steps down from the infrastructure portfolio, and braces to deliver a tough budget.When parliament rose for the winter break, the government had managed to navigate the new normal of an expanded crossbench, while some were lauding a more collaborative approach to legislation.Then Senator Jacqui Lambie lobbed a grenade on August 15, calling for infrastructure minister Michael Ferguson to resign.That set off a chain of events.
The lower house has 35 seats. The Liberals have 14, Labor 10, the Greens five, the JLN has gone from three to one, and there are now five independents, up from three.It will be more difficult in the sense that he now needs to negotiate with more individuals, rather than being able to treat the JLN as a three-member party.
Andrew Jenner says he stands by the Jacqui Lambie Network's decision to remove Miriam Beswick and Rebekah Pentland from the party.Almost every year at budget time, opposition parties make noise about not accepting any cuts to frontline services. The budget might not have any cuts in terms of literal reductions in funding, but it could have reductions over the forward estimates, or reductions in the usual growth of spending.
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