Senator Jacinta Price will now spearhead the Liberal-National Coalition’s opposition to the Indigenous Voice to Parliament after being elevated to the shadow Indigenous Minister portfolio.
Price steps in for MP Julian Leeser, who moved to the shadow Cabinet backbench a week earlier because he would not support the Coalition’s position.
Price’s accession comes amid a wider shadow cabinet reshuffle, including the retirement of former Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews, who will also vacate the shadow portfolio for Senator James Paterson.
Paterson, a vocal critic of Beijing-backed foreign interference, will also retain the shadow ministry for cyber security. While former attorney-general, Michaelia Cash, will take on the shadow attorney-general portfolio….