Health Minister Greg Hunt is expected to announce his retirement from federal politics on Thursday.
Federal Liberal Party figures told The Australian Financial Review Mr Hunt – who was first elected to Parliament in 2001 – would use the last parliamentary sitting day of 2021 to announce that he will not to recontest his Victorian seat of Flinders.
Minister for Health and Aged Care Greg Hunt. Alex Ellinghausen
He will remain as Health and Aged Care Minister until the election, due by May 2022, ending 20 years in politics.
The former environment, industry and sport minister has repeatedly said he intends to contest the election. But possible preselection candidates have been positioning themselves to contest the Mornington Peninsula seat in the event he does announce plans to retire.
Mr Hunt holds the seat with a margin of 5.6 per cent and easily held off a challenge from Liberal turned independent Julia Banks at the 2019 election.
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