Treasurer Joe Hockey has done what no minister has ever done without resigning − thrown in his lot with the opposition to implement one of their key policies. This is not about joining some benign parliamentary friendship group, such as the one promoting Men’s Sheds.
Hockey is committed to implementing Labor’s plans for a republican plebiscite by 2020, something clearly not government policy.
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