Overview
- Ley confirmed the reshuffle on Sunday after Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was dumped from the frontbench last week over her comments about Indian migrants and refusal to endorse the leader.
- Finance spokesman James Paterson joins the Coalition’s formal leadership group as Ley readies a major economic address to CEDA this week.
- Melissa Price moves to shadow defence industry and defence personnel, drawing on her prior experience as defence industry minister in government.
- Tasmanian Senator Claire Chandler is promoted to the frontbench to take over the cyber security and science portfolios, while Richard Colbeck becomes Senate co-chair of the Liberal Legislative Committee.
- Cook MP Simon Kennedy is appointed to a newly created brief covering artificial intelligence, the digital economy and scrutiny of government waste.