Australia news live: Mark Dreyfus and Ed Husic to be dumped from Labor cabinet; Jacinta Nampijinpa Price defects to Liberals do sex

Australia news live: Mark Dreyfus and Ed Husic to be dumped from Labor cabinet; Jacinta Nampijinpa Price defects to Liberals do sex sex to

May, 08 2025 08:11 AM
08.04 BSTEd Husic and Mark Dreyfus to be dumped from Labor cabinet after factional dealTom McIlroyThe industry and science minister, Ed Husic, will be dumped from federal cabinet after a factional deal by the Labor party’s right faction went against him.Husic’s supporters have confirmed to Guardian Australia that the decision was made on Thursday afternoon and that appeals to Anthony Albanese for an intervention to save Husic failed.His dumping comes as a result of the New South Wales right faction being overrepresented at the top of the government and a push by Victorian MPs for an extra place in the ministry.The national right faction is due to meet this evening in Canberra, ahead of a full caucus meeting on Friday.Industry minister Ed Husic. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAPThe attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, is also being pushed out of cabinet, with his Victorian right faction moving to install backbencher Sam Rae and economics committee chairman Daniel Mulino in the ministry.The NSW senator and assistant minister Tim Ayres is set to be elevated in the looming reshuffle. He is personally close to Albanese, well regarded among colleagues and is a member of the ALP’s powerful national executive.Husic conceded last year that many Muslim and Arab Australians did not feel listened to by the Labor government over Israel’s war in Gaza, describing his public interventions as necessary so that people believed “that their concerns have somewhere to go to be vented and aired”.ShareUpdated at 08.33 BST
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