The ALP Caucus has met and elected the Shadow Ministry, following the federal election.
After a split in the Left faction, Senator Kim Carr has survived a proposed demotion and will remain in an expanded shadow ministry of 32.
The factional composition of the shadow ministry is Right 16, Left 15, with one unaligned. There are 19 males and 13 females.
The NSW Right has dumped Sharon Bird and promoted Ed Husic.
In Victoria, the Right has replaced David Feeney with Clare O’Neil, who has just been elected to her second term as member for Hotham.
Following a number of mis-steps in the election campaign, Feeney, the former shadow minister for Defence, is the biggest loser in the Caucus election. [Read more…]
This is the talking points document that David Feeney left in a Sky News studio.
Feeney gave a stumbling interview to David Speers, in which he was unable to explain the party’s policy on the SchoolKids Bonus.
The interview followed days of bad publicity over Feeney’s failure to register a property he owns on his declaration of interests.
Feeney also negatively gears the property. The ALP has undertaken to end negative gearing if elected. [Read more…]
Senator Mehmet Tillem served just ten months in the upper house.
Tillem, a Labor senator from Victoria, was appointed on August 21, 2013 to fill a casual vacancy created by the resignation of David Feeney, who was preselected for the safe seat of Batman in the House of Representatives. [Read more…]