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Via the AFR:
Scott Morrison’s new ministry demotes or ignores some key plotters in the coup against Malcolm Turnbull, rewards his own backers but also embraces the conservative policy agenda by appointing a Population Minister and removing emissions reduction as a consideration of energy policy.
Mr Morrison and his deputy and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg have also appealed to the party’s conservative base by bringing back the Industrial Relations portfolio, to be held by cabinet minister Kelly O’Dwyer, and returning Small Business to cabinet under Michaelia Cash.
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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
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