@poyndexter; revelations this morning about Peter Dutton's actual behaviour in Cabinet amounts to a huge body blow against a Government already struggling to remain upright as it leans on the ropes:
"... Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton absented himself from just one cabinet discussion on child care during the Abbott government and none at all under the Turnbull government, despite declaring family child-care investments, senior sources say. The Saturday Paper has obtained further details of Dutton’s declarations to cabinet, including some contained in advice from the secretary of the prime minister’s department, Martin Parkinson.
They show that while Dutton sometimes declared an interest, he only stepped out of a cabinet meeting once. …"
