Person of the year SPECIAL REPORT Person of the year FEATURE Western defence delivers for feds The Liberal Party WA’s marginal seat contingent played a big role in the shock May federal election victory, while local ministers, most notably Christian Porter, are key to the government’s agenda. The western front is playing “The (Bill) would simply have requires a sensible, measured, Senate, and with the govern- Matt Mckenzie a key role in the Morrison gov- promoted compliance with Aus- approach to reform taking ment’s own initiatives helping
[email protected] ernment’s as-yet unadventurous tralia’s workplace laws and acted into account the differences in lift spending by 8.4 per cent, @Matt_Mckenzie_ agenda, with senior ministers as a deterrent to the recidivist the volume of material hosted then treasurer Joe Hockey including Mathias Cormann law-breaking of a minority group between Twitter or Facebook found himself projecting a $35.1 in the finance portfolio, of union officials,” Mr Knott said. and a traditional newspaper,” billion deficit in 2016. HRISTIAN Porter felt Linda Reynolds in defence, Further work has been sig- Mr Porter said. By the time Josh Frydenberg his chances of victory in and Melissa Price in defence nalled to simplify awards and Meanwhile, work is ongoing to handed down his 2020 budget C the seat of Pearce were industry. encourage take up of employee reform family law. earlier this year, spending had so remote in the May federal Mr Wyatt is serving as Minis- share schemes. grown a further 14.7 per cent, a election he promised to get a ter for Indigenous Australians Mr Porter’s other priorities The money men slightly reduced pace.