The man who holds Novak Djokovic’s hopes of winning a 10th Australian Open | katinacurtis
Immigration Minister Alex Hawke holds in his hands Novak Djokovic’s hopes of winning a 10th Australian Open tennis title as he decides whether to allow the world no.1 to stay in the country after his visa was cancelled.
He joined both the Liberal Party and the Army Reserves as a teenager in 1995. In 2000 he left the Reserves – having achieved the rank of lieutenant – but remained a loyal lieutenant in the Liberals, working for a series of state politicians and then federal minister Helen Coonan. Prime Minister Scott Morrison appointed Hawke the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs in last December’s reshuffle.Hawke is perhaps better known as a factional powerbroker for the centre-right of the NSW Liberal Party than he is as Immigration Minister.describes his fight with James Stevens – now a federal party room colleague – for the presidency of the Young Liberals.
These days, in Parliament, he shares a desk with Victorian powerbroker Michael Sukkar, the Assistant Treasurer., including in the marginal seats of Lindsay and Reid, held by first-term MPs Melissa McIntosh and Fiona Martin.on the Liberal Party’s NSW executive and has become a divisive figure within the state division because of his tight control of factional numbers., along with Stuart Robert, that has met each sitting week since they were elected in 2007.
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