‘They would go feral’: The months-long delay in picking Stuart Robert's cabinet successor has puzzled and irritated some Coalition MPs.
NT senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, the Coalition’s Indigenous affairs spokeswoman.“They would go feral,” said one MP, who like others, asked not to be named so they could speak freely about a confidential internal process.
Bert Van Manen, the chief opposition whip, and Garth Hamilton, the economics committee deputy chairman, are considered frontrunners if the spot goes to a Queenslander.Deputy chair of the powerful security and intelligence committee, Andrew Wallace, was touted but has been picked as the Coalition MP who will be seconded to the United Nations later this year and is out of the running.
That, in turn, would create a spot for Van Manen, Hamilton or even Queensland senator Paul Scarr to take an assistant ministerial role. However, Fletcher has nominated to stand again and is committed to winning a looming pre-selection fight, while Payne has five years left on her term and has given no indication she is poised to quit.
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