ACT’s Zed Seselja gets financial services portfolio
The financial services industry has a new minister in the first Morrison Government cabinet – ACT Liberal Senator, Zed Seselja.
Seselja, a lawyer and former member of the ACT Legislative Assembly, has been named as assistant minster for Treasury and Finance and will be working under the new Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg and assistant treasurer, Stuart Robert.
He succeeds Kelly O’Dwyer who been promoted into the Cabinet as the Minister for Jobs, Industrial Relations and Women.
Seselja was regarded as one of the key backers of failed Prime Ministerial aspirant, Peter Dutton.
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