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Christopher Pyne on being ‘the ultimate insider’
Michelle Grattan discusses politics, and life after politics, with Christopher Pyne.
Australian politics’ ‘revolving door’ is undermining efforts to counter lobbying and potential corruption, and the regulation system is hopelessly flawed.
Former ministers Christopher Pyne and Julie Bishop are among many who have accepted jobs post-office in breach of ministerial code of conduct - but they will face a senate inquiry.
One in four former ministers go on to take lucrative roles with special interest groups after leaving politics. Our current standards regulating this practice aren’t being enforced adequately.
No matter who forms government after the next election, managing Australia’s relationship with China will continue to be a major challenge, and vitally important in a region remaking itself.
The prime minister is remaining stoic about the loss of a batch of ministers ahead of this year’s election, but in truth it points to the Coalition’s dim chances of re-election.
If the Coalition wins the election, Reynolds will replace the departing Christopher Pyne as defence minister.
The defence minister and defence industry minister are set to become the latest in a string of high-profile government MPs exiting at the upcoming election.
While many soft voters didn’t think Labor deserved re-election, they were hesitant about the Liberals under Steven Marshall.
Politics podcast: the “X factor” in the South Australian election
Labor is pitching for a fifth term in South Australia.
The five Liberal rebels are not ruling out crossing the floor to try to force a parliamentary vote.
Michelle Grattan and Deep Saini discuss what’s been making headlines this week in politics.
As the Liberals fight and manoeuvre, the Nationals are watching on appalled, privately wondering at Turnbull’s inability to control even his moderate supporters, let alone his party as a whole.
Tony Abbott’s second major public intervention this week prompted a radio interviewer to ask Malcolm Turnbull whether his leadership was under threat.
More broadly, Pyne’s self-indulgence is damaging to Turnbull because it reinforces everything the party’s malcontents on the right believe.
One of the most challenging jobs in the federal public service has opened.
Ahead of the Mid Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook, minister for defence industries Christopher Pyne said a lot of jobs were created in 2016 and Australia has the highest growth rate in the G7. Is that true?
The Australia-Japan foreign and defence ministers’ ‘two-plus-two’ talks, due to be held in Japan before Christmas, are being deferred because of Marise Payne’s recent illness.
Chaos reigned at Parliament House when key Liberals MPs went missing, and Labor staged an ambush.
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