ALBO’S POST-HOLIDAY RESHUFFLE
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is back from his Queensland holiday today and could be straight into sorting a cabinet reshuffle with The Sydney Morning Herald reporting senior ministers Linda Burney and Brendan O’Connor could quit the government in the next few days.
The minister for Indigenous Australians and the minister for skills and training are widely expected to announce their retirement from politics at the next election, and if they move to the backbench immediately it would leave two vacancies for Labor’s Left faction to fill, the paper says.
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