Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and follows the answer he gave to my previous question. I refer the Deputy Prime Minister to his decision to abandon the member for Dawson and allow her to be removed from the ministry following the defection of Senator McGauran. Will the mass defection of the Queensland division of the National Party cause a further reorganisation of the ministry? If one National Party defection caused the loss of one seat at the ministerial table, how many Nationals ministers will now go—

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