With pressure mounting on the ministerial system and the Chief Minister facing a vote of no confidence in the States, Senator Alan Breckon has tabled a proposition that would allow almost all States Members to serve as ministers or assistant ministers, and which would force ministers to consult panels of three to five assistant ministers before making decisions.
Senator Breckon’s proposition, due for debate on 6 July, follows a damning report which claimed that ministerial government needed a major rethink and could not be fixed by ‘tinkering around the edges’.
• See Friday’s JEP for full story.
