Anthony Albanese will overhaul Labor’s frontbench line-up as the party prepares for a looming election. Mark Butler is expected to be bumped from the contentious climate change and energy portfolio in the shadow cabinet reshuffle. Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon, who has been urging the party to tone down its climate policies, believes moving Butler is the right decision. “It will send the right message to our traditional base,” Fitzgibbon told ABC radio. “Mark has been somewhat over-enthusiastic in his approach to climate change policy. I believe we should see climate change as not a political opportunity but a policy opportunity.” Butler is expected to swap positions with Chris Bowen, who holds the health portfolio. “The job of every frontbencher is to serve in the portfolio allocated by their leader,” Butler told AAP on January 28. “That’s always been my position under the four leaders I’ve had the privilege of serving …
Opposition Leader Albanese Expected to Do a Shadow Cabinet Reshuffle
January 27, 2021
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