Alan Tudge ‘technically’ still member of cabinet, Scott Morrison says

PM grilled again on education minister's future after previously saying Tudge would not return to frontbench

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Scott Morrison has said the sidelined education minister, Alan Tudge, is technically" still a member of his cabinet, but is not receiving a ministerial salary.

After Labor insisted voters deserved to know whether Tudge would be a fully fledged minister if the Coalition won re-election, Morrison told ABC Radio the Victorian MP stood aside for his own health and family reasons, and when he is ready to return to the cabinet then he will".

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