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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Paul Karp

Government defends flurry of appointments to key roles of former Coalition staffers and MPs

Energy minister Angus Taylor
Energy minister Angus Taylor has made a flurry of appointments, including for his former energy adviser. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The Morrison government has appointed more than 30 former Coalition ministers, MPs, staffers and donors to taxpayer-funded jobs in the last six months alone.

Scott Morrison and senior ministers have defended the appointments, but Labor has argued it’s a case of history repeating after a large number of partisan appointments before the 2019 election and stacking of the administrative appeals tribunal with 85 people linked to the Coalition since 2013.

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