Yesterday Jeremy Hanson made a not overly sincere offer to expand the Ministry from five to six.
Here at RiotACT we noted this would banjo the committee system in the Assembly.
Chief Minister Gallagher has joined that refrain:
“Just one week ago the opposition leader refused to support an increase to the size of the Legislative Assembly, against [...]

The Liberal Leader Jeremy Hanson is cunningly offering legislation to expand the Ministry to a sixth Minister.
Before The backbenchers get too excited it’s worth noting Jeremy’s not doing this out of the goodness of his heart:
“Over the past month we have heard the calls from Katy Gallagher on how over-worked her current Ministers are and [...]

In the wake of the world’s worst leadership spill yesterday the Ministerial blood is flowing thick and fast.
All the whips are gone and will need relatively senior blood into their positions.
Simon Crean is gone. Richard Marles is gone. Chris Bowen is gone. Kim Carr is expected to go. Martin Ferguson is quitting on TV right [...]

Sine Jon Stanhope’s departure the difficulties of Katy Gallagher’s team in mastering the Cheif Minister’s website have been a source of ongoing humour and fascination.
Today the Liberals have kindly pointed out to us that despite Chris Bourke having been made a minister some weeks ago there’s no mention of him on the Ministers Page.
A harmless [...]

The Canberra Times has inside word that after a diabolically bad week Chief Minister Gallagher is spreading the ministerial load by bringing the fast tracked green MLA Chris Bourke to the Cabinet table.
Apparently he’ll be taking the education portfolio, not health.

The PM has come up with her new cabinet and ministerial portfolios. And the winners are…
Drumroll please…
Movers and Shakers (and all the other office relocation specialists in town), the printers and the signwriters.
DEEWR gets a worse acronym after going totally vocational by losing Childcare and the Schools part of Education – Jobs, Skills and Workplace [...]

As a result of John Hargreaves resignation from Ministry becoming effective on 31 October, Joy Burch inherited the portfolios of Disability and Housing, Ageing, Multicultural Affairs, Corrections and Industrial Relations Portfolios, and wielded that portfolio for all of nine days.
According to Stanhope’s press release and ABC Online, she’s lost Corrections and Industrial Relations, but [...]

The following email is doing the rounds purporting to be from the former Liberal MLA Steve Pratt to the departing Labor Minister, John Hargreaves. I’m not sure how much of it is true, or even what some of it means. But I do think it warrants public scrutiny. Enjoy:
From: Steve PRATT
To: John.Hargreaves@parliament.act.gov.au
Sent: Monday, October 12, [...]