‘I haven’t seen him’: Alan Tudge skips schools portfolio for local grants announcements

Alan Tudge with minister for Indigenous Australians, Ken Wyatt, at a press conference at Parliament House last year. Despite the looming federal election, the education minister has not given an interview so far this year. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

There is growing scrutiny over Alan Tudge’s disappearance from the campaign trail as the education minister shuns the media.

With just two weeks to go until election day, Tudge has not addressed the media once, has announced no education policy and has ignored repeated requests for interviews.