The prime minister’s dinner-time criticism of his trade minister shows his frustration but does tiny for party morale ahead of the Canning byelection
Tony Abbott held one of his regular dinners with MPs in his prime ministerial dining suite on Tuesday. Andrew Robb was there,the trade minister who has pulled off the three free trade deals which sit at the top of every list of this government’s achievements. The prime minister proceeded to aggressively castigate his senior minister one source said “dump on” him – for the government struggling to “sell” the benefits of its China free trade agreement and because the government’s taxpayer-funded advertising campaign to spruik the deal has been slow to eventuate and is not running in the lead-up to the Canning byelection in Western Australia, despite repeated assurances that it is “in the can”. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com