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Dan Tehan, who has been elevated to trade minister in the federal cabinet reshuffle, brings ‘incredibly strong credentials’ to the portfolio, Scott Morrison says. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP Scott Morrison has handed the trade portfolio to former diplomat Dan Tehan and elevated a key ally, Alex Hawke, to the immigration portfolio, while demoting Richard Colebeck, the aged care minister who had an infamous memory lapse concerning the number of coronavirus deaths during Victoria’s second wave. The prime minister unveiled the lon...

The most important changes in Scott Morrison’s limited reshuffle are centred on two vital and controversial issues – aged care and trade – that will severely test the government in coming months. Aged care has been elevated to cabinet and put in the safe hands of Health Minister Greg Hunt, who has performed strongly during the pandemic. The current Aged Care Minister, Richard Colbeck, retains responsibility for aged care services, including delivery of residential and home care packages and the regulation of the sector. With the royal commission due to deliver its final report in Februa...

While the Nationals’ frontbencher David Littleproud has made a public overture for the trade portfolio to return to the junior Coalition partner in the reshuffle, colleagues regard that push as connected to ongoing, unresolved, leadership jockeying within the Nationals rather than a serious pitch. There was speculation at the beginning of the month that trade could go to either Tehan or to the employment minister and Western Australian Liberal, Michaelia Cash, but people now think Tehan is in the box seat, and Cash could pick up education. Tehan, a Victorian Liberal from a regional seat, is...

The government will inject a further $1 billion into aged care, most of it for home care packages, in Thursday’s budget update. Prime Minister Scott Morrison is also likely to elevate the troubled policy area to cabinet, in his imminent ministerial reshuffle. Some 10,000 home care packages will be provided, costing $850 million, in the latest funding – 2500 packages will be released across each of the four levels of care. The funds – announced Wednesday and included in Thursday’s Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook – come ahead of the final report of the royal commission into a...

Currently without a win in 5 bullets league games hovering precariously above the relegation zone performing far below their potential one time world champion klinsmann has until may to get the club back on course. now a call in or a court battle has begun in france that's after a famous chef lost a coveted michelin star over allegations he used cheddar cheese in his souffles mark vaile claims the downgrade from 3 to 2 stars left him very depressed and he denies using chad in the recipe the flamboyant chef is renowned for his so-called but tannic or cooking incorporating locally sourced wild h...