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Vanuatu narrowly avoided a political crisis as Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau survived a no-confidence vote in Parliament on Wednesday.

The putsch was led by former prime minister and now opposition leader Bob Loughman, who urged for the immediate election of a new prime minister in a no-confidence motion submitted to Parliament.

Loughman has criticized Kalsakau’s foreign policy decisions, saying in the no-confidence motion that they had undermined Vanuatu’s independence, sovereignty, and position as a non-aligned state. Guardian Australian reported that this list of grievances included a security deal Vanuatu signed with Australia in December last year.[...]

Despite the motion not mentioning Australia directly, this is the only pact of its kind signed under Kalsakau’s leadership. It further stated that: “The Hon Prime Minister and his Government must conduct its relations impartially and not allow our independent and sovereign nation to be sucked into a game it does not want and to be used inappropriately by competing nations to exert dominance in our region.”[...]

However, despite the best efforts of the opposition, the vote failed. The no-confidence motion fell short of an absolute majority, gaining 26 votes compared to the 23 votes against. [...]

Kalsakau told a press conference on Tuesday his government would set up a capital development fund. This would be used to buy new aircraft and build roads, to boost the tourism-reliant economy. He also reshuffled his cabinet in a move designed to win support ahead of the vote.

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Australian PM announces major ministry reshuffle

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has reshuffled his cabinet, with the ministers for home affairs and immigration both reassigned. Albanese on Sunday announced his first reshuffle of ministry and cabinet since the governing Labor Party won power in 2022, coming into the lead-up to the next general election, which must be held by May 2025, Xinhua news agency reported. Under the…

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POLITICO London Playbook

DRIVING THE DAY

HARD RESET: Boris Johnson will continue the reset of his Downing Street operation this week in the hope that a new team of senior advisers and whips can restore his relationship with Conservative backbenchers and stem the flow of no-confidence letters threatening a vote on his future. Playbook is told further changes are anticipated imminently following the appointment of Steve Barclay as chief of staff and Guto Harri as director of communications over the weekend. The next phase is likely to involve a mini-reshuffle focused on the government whips office, with Chief Whip Mark Spencer expected to move to a different role and a new chief set to be appointed from the shadow whipping operation that has come to Johnson’s aid in recent weeks. As the prime minister shuffles the pack, his new team will be hoping the changes are enough to buy him some more time and prevent the number of letters sent to 1922 committee Chair Graham Brady from hitting the critical 54 threshold.

MINI-RESHUFFLE KLAXON: A small reshuffle is expected any day now. Anyone who has been following the news in Westminster since the Owen Paterson debacle in November will know Spencer’s time in charge of the whips office has been coming to an end, and a wider clearout of the whips is likely. The Sun’s Harry Cole says Spencer will get a new job, and hears a new minister for “Brexit opportunities” may be created to free up space. The Sunday Times’ Tim Shipman reported that Chris Pincher, who has been leading the shadow whipping team, and long-term Johnson ally Nigel Adams are the frontrunners to be the new chief. You would imagine Johnson may also want to take the opportunity to promote more women and secure jobs for some of the troublesome 2019 intake of MPs. The Mail on Sunday’s Glen Owen says the PM spent the weekend at Chequers calling MPs and preparing the next changes — Cole reveals he has canceled a trip to Australia due this week to complete the reorganization.

OPM of the masses: Barclay and Harri start their new jobs in No. 10 this morning. Downing Street staff expect there will be an immediate shake-up of how day-to-day life at the top of government runs in terms of things like the daily meetings. On Barclay’s wider objective of establishing a new “Office of the Prime Minister,” a government insider tells Playbook there is not yet a fixed idea of how it will be structured, though work is underway. The Times’ Chris Smyth says Johnson hopes to appoint highly rated NHS vaccines boss Emily Lawson as permanent secretary at the new department this week. Lawson was supposed to be running Johnson’s No. 10 “delivery unit” but was deployed back to the NHS to fix the booster rollout last year. In his Sunday Times column, Rob Colvile floated the idea of restructuring the Downing Street complex, from the PM’s living arrangements to the cramped and dilapidated offices to the messy and antiquated red box system.

Barclay banked: There has been some early criticism of the Barclay appointment centered around the view that he could not realistically take on the multiple roles of chief of staff, minister for the Cabinet Office, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and chair of various Cabinet committees — as well as being MP for North East Cambridgeshire. Former No. 10 chiefs of staff Gavin Barwell, Nick Timothy and Jonathan Powell were all dismissive of the idea, though ex-No. 10 aide Dan Korski noted the arrangement was good enough for former German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Ex-mandarin Jill Rutter has this long thread about how the new set-up is a “nightmare” for those who have to make it work. In any case, Playbook is told Barclay will focus on his chief of staff job and many of his ministerial duties will soon be offloaded to others, possibly at the coming mini-reshuffle.

Further reading: Barclay’s appointment may not have immediately won the confidence of Twitter, but then the only audience that matters at the moment is Tory MPs. To most Westminster observers the former Brexit secretary might be slightly, well, boring, but he is liked across the Tory Party after slowly earning respect in several top jobs over the past few years. My POLITICO colleague Annabelle Dickson has a new and very timely profile of the man of the moment out this morning. Annabelle writes that while Barclay is not often spoken about as a big-hitter, parliamentary colleagues point to a no-nonsense and details-driven approach to politics evident since his early days as an MP on the public accounts committee. Barclay has a “quieter demeanor” than many colleagues, but a “sort of precision,” one MP reckons.

Rishi business: For Playbook’s money, the most interesting angle on Barclay’s appointment is that he is one of Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s closest allies in government. Sunak has taken a pasting from Cabinet colleagues in the papers over the past few days. One Cabinet minister told Saturday’s Times that he should be sacked for being so “blatant” about plotting against the PM. The Sunday Times’ Caroline Wheeler and Tim Shipman had more strong criticism of the chancellor, with one source blasting: “He has behaved in a childish, immature and petulant way. No one will ever elect someone so duplicitous as leader.” So what does it mean that Barclay — the man the Westminster rumor mill has tipped as Sunak’s future chancellor — is now running Johnson’s No. 10 team? In a crucial new line, the Mail on Sunday’s well-informed Glen Owen revealed Sunak was “closely involved” in the discussions with Johnson over the No. 10 changes. The key takeaway from the Barclay appointment could be that it is intended to improve relations between No. 10 and No. 11 and dissuade Sunak from wielding the knife.

Completing the set: Former Sky boss and current MP Andrew Griffith starts as No. 10’s new head of policy, replacing the resigning Munira Mirza. Lynton Crosby associate David Canzini is expected to be appointed to a formal role as a political adviser to the PM with responsibility for liaising with backbenchers in the coming days, the Sunday Times’ Gabriel Pogrund reported in an insidery piece on how Crosby and his allies will be working with the new operation. Then there is the inner guard of highly trusted Johnson aides that exists outside of official structures and is increasingly relied upon by the PM, as outlined at the top of the Shippers/Wheeler/Pogrund long-read.

Harri-kiri: Johnson’s new director of comms Guto Harri has wasted no time getting stuck in, directly trolling Johnson’s nemesis Dominic Cummings on Twitter within hours of landing the job. Harry Cole says Harri will take a harder line against the PM’s critics, with the new comms boss blasting the “appalling behavior” of “a powerful unelected official cultivating a high profile, disagreeing with the PM, undermining Cabinet, picking on SpAds and hiring weirdos” on Saturday. The new stance was also evident in Carrie Johnson’s response to Tory peer Michael Ashcroft’s book serialized in the Mail on Sunday, with her spokesperson’s statement that she is the target of a “brutal briefing campaign” by “bitter ex-officials” leading the BBC story and most others on the subject. A government insider told Playbook that Harri “doesn’t give a sh*t” about any mud flung at him and is happy to take a combative approach defending the PM.

Some of that mud: The MoS’ Glen Owen had a handy run-through of all Harri’s public comments criticizing Johnson over the past few years. Allies of Harri hope MPs will agree the PM needs a critical friend who has extensive comms experience. Some of that past experience may cause problems, though — Harry Cole has a top scoop revealing Harri lobbied the government on behalf of controversial Chinese tech giant Huawei, and was “directly involved in talks with senior ­officials trying to head off the landmark ban” on the firm from being involved in the U.K.’s 5G network. Harri resigned from his role at Hawthorn Advisers last night. Deputy Labour Leader Angela Rayner senses the first of many attacks: “We can’t have the revolving door from lobbying to Government see potential ­national security issues arise. We need full transparency from Guto Harri about all contact he had with Government in his ­former role and who his clients were.”

Will there be a vote? Tory MPs who spoke to Playbook over the weekend said the Barclay and Harri appointments would, as one put it, “only buy time,” and that Johnson still had to deliver on a raft of promised changes and “meaningful reform” to his operation to avoid a confidence vote very soon. As the reshuffle and new appointments are announced this week, you can bet that the other story playing out in the background will be the continuing ticking up of no-confidence letters. Many MPs spent the weekend considering their options and it seems plausible that more letters will go in as they return to Westminster from their constituencies. The immediate question is whether we get to 54 letters and a vote of confidence this week. The Sunday Times had some intel from Johnson’s shadow whipping operation putting the number at between 35 and 45. The i’s Jane Merrick reckons more than 100 Tory MPs will vote against Johnson in a confidence vote. Though since 180 need to vote to remove him, that suggests the rebels are still some way off. (Your evergreen caveat that we don’t know, it can all change and it’s all to play for.)

Also today: Cummings is apparently dropping more gear about the funding of the Downing Street flat refurb on his Substack. An early test for the new No. 10 comms team.

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New WA health minister in cabinet revamp

New WA health minister in cabinet revamp

Rookie minister Amber-Jade Sanderson will assume responsibility for Western Australia’s COVID-19 response under a cabinet reshuffle announced by Premier Mark McGowan. Ms Sanderson, who has been in cabinet for just nine months, replaces deputy premier Roger Cook in the critical health and mental health portfolios. It comes after a bruising year for Mr Cook, who has served as either health minister…

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Tarnished by Bailout, Greek PM Eyes Reshuffle Before Election (Reuters) Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is poised to announce a cabinet reshuffle this week to freshen up a government lagging in the polls as the effects of painful bailouts still bite a year before a national election.

Myanmar Generals Had ‘Genocidal Intent’ Against Rohingya, Must Face Justice--U.N. (Reuters) Myanmar’s military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya with “genocidal intent” and the commander-in-chief and five generals should be prosecuted for orchestrating the gravest crimes under law, U.N. investigators said on Monday.

New Australian PM Gets to Work; Government Support Plummets (Reuters) Australia’s new prime minister toured drought-hit farms on Monday to show voters after a week of turmoil the government was back to work, but a leading opinion poll showed it now faces an even greater chance of electoral defeat after changing leaders.

Iran and Syria Sign Deal for Military Cooperation (Reuters) Iran and Syria signed a deal for military cooperation in a meeting between the defense ministers of the two countries in Damascus, the Tasnim news agency reported on Monday.

China Targets Rumors, Religion in Updated Party Rules (Reuters) China’s ruling Communist Party has issued a revised set of regulations governing members’ behavior, threatening punishment for spreading political rumors and recommending those who cling to religious beliefs be asked to leave the party.

East China Floods Cause Over $1 Billion in Damage This Month (Reuters) Heavy flooding caused by a typhoon and tropical storm in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong killed 14 people and caused 10 billion yuan (1.14 billion pounds) in direct economic losses this month, the China Daily said on Monday.

World Court Hears Iran Lawsuit to Have U.S. Sanctions Lifted (Reuters) Iranian lawyers will ask the International Court of Justice on Monday to order the United States to lift sanctions ordered by the Trump administration against Tehran.

In Familiar Dance, Turkey Warms to Russia as US Ties Unravel (AP) Relations between Turkey and Russia are cozy, prompting worries in the West of a potentially critical rift in the NATO alliance. But Turkey’s president may be engaged in a balancing act, tactically turning to Russia as ties with the United States further deteriorate over the detention of an American pastor.

Myanmar Postpones Verdict for Jailed Reuters Reporters (AP) A Myanmar judge on Monday postponed the verdict against two Reuters journalists accused of illegally possessing official documents in a case that has drawn attention to the faltering state of press freedom in the troubled Southeast Asian nation.

Israel to Reopen Gaza Crossing After Week of Calm on Border (AP) Israel’s defense minister has announced he will reopen the country’s main personnel crossing with the Gaza Strip following a week of relative calm along the border.

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Opposition home affairs spokesperson to sit on backbench before retiring at next electionFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Liberal MP Karen Andrews has...

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Australia's Prime Minister announces cabinet reshuffle

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday announced a Cabinet reshuffle following a series of damaging allegations.

Morrison said Linda Reynolds will leave the role of Minister of Defence and will replaced by Peter Dutton, who was previously Minister of Home Affairs.

Christian Porter will leave as Attorney General and Minister for Industrial Relations and will be replaced by Michaelia Cash.

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Sanderson takes health in WA reshuffle

Sanderson takes health in WA reshuffle

NEW-LOOK WESTERN AUSTRALIA CABINET Mark McGowan – Premier; Treasurer; Public Sector Management; Federal-State Relations Roger Cook – Deputy Premier; Minister for State Development, Jobs and Trade; Tourism; Commerce; Science Sue Ellery – Education and Training Stephen Dawson – Emergency Services; Innovation and ICT; Medical Research; Volunteering Alannah MacTiernan – Regional Development;…

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Australia PM shifts rape-accused minister in cabinet reshuffle

Australia PM shifts rape-accused minister in cabinet reshuffle

Christian Porter – who denies rape – is no longer attorney general but will remain in the cabinet. from BBC News – World https://ift.tt/3sAF30A via IFTTT

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Australia politics live: Morrison considers cabinet reshuffle, NSW MP Michael Johnsen denies rape allegation | Australia news

Australia politics live: Morrison considers cabinet reshuffle, NSW MP Michael Johnsen denies rape allegation | Australia news

I want to thank the member who brought this to my attention a couple of days ago, and there are three principles to the Australian vaccination program, firstly, that it is free, secondly, that it is voluntary, and thirdly that it is universally available, with enough vaccine for every Australian three times over. With regards to the specific question that you raised, I have received an example…

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Australia politics live: Morrison considers cabinet reshuffle, NSW MP Michael Johnsen denies rape allegation

Australia politics live: Morrison considers cabinet reshuffle, NSW MP Michael Johnsen denies rape allegation

Join Hafta-Ichi to Research the article “Australia politics live: Morrison considers cabinet reshuffle, NSW MP Michael Johnsen denies rape allegation” Christian Porter set to be shifted and Linda Reynolds dumped in changes to Coalition frontbench; Australia considering Myanmar sanctions. Follow all the developments live Speculation grows about cabinet reshuffle Michael Johnsen to take leave…