{"id":716129,"date":"2026-06-05T04:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/716129\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T04:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:01:10","slug":"tasmanian-minister-madeleine-ogilvies-portfolios-redistributed-to-other-ministers-after-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/716129\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasmanian minister Madeleine Ogilvie’s portfolios redistributed to other ministers after resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tasmanian government will not appoint a new cabinet minister to replace Madeleine Ogilvie, instead redistributing her portfolios to other ministers.<\/p>\n

Deputy Premier Guy Barnett will take on the environment portfolio, while Parks Minister Nick Duigan will add heritage, Jane Howlett will take over arts, and the science and digital innovation portfolio goes to Felix Ellis.<\/p>\n

Premier Jeremy Rockliff said in a statement that the reduction in the number of ministers, along with associated staffing changes, would lead to a saving of more than $1 million a year.<\/p>\n

Backbencher Marcus Vermey will become Parliamentary Secretary of Small Business and Community and Multicultural Affairs.<\/p>\n

Ms Ogilvie resigned last week over allegations she had misled parliament.<\/p>\n

The allegations about misleading parliament related to an answer she provided at a budget estimates hearing last year.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ms Ogilvie was asked whether she had been involved in any Supreme Court action in the previous 18 months.<\/p>\n

She said: “No”.<\/p>\n

But it was revealed in parliament last week that she was a party to proceedings that she had initiated.<\/p>\n

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Madeleine Ogilvie was a minister for four years. (ABC News: Ebony ten Broeke)<\/p>\n

When she resigned, Ms Ogilvie said she had answered the question “poorly” and did not want the government to be distracted by the matter.<\/p>\n

Government treating Tasmanians ‘with contempt’, Labor says<\/p>\n

Responding to the cabinet reshuffle, Labor’s Ella Haddad said shifting around Ms Ogilvie’s portfolios “does not answer a single question about the scandal engulfing Premier Rockliff’s government”.<\/p>\n

“It says everything that the Liberals are reportedly refusing to hold a press conference or take questions on camera about today’s reshuffle,” she said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Tasmanian minister Madeleine Ogilvie to move to the backbench<\/a><\/p>\n

Tasmanian government minister Madeleine Ogilvie will move to the backbench after accusations she misled parliament.<\/p>\n

“They are doing everything they can to avoid answering questions about the legal fees scandal and treating Tasmanians with utter contempt.”<\/p>\n

Before Ms Oglivie’s resignation, she was part of an 11-member cabinet.<\/p>\n

The new cabinet will feature a team of 10 ministers.<\/p>\n

Ms Ogilvie had been a Liberal government minister for four years.<\/p>\n

Before that, she was an independent, and prior to that a Labor MP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tasmanian government will not appoint a new cabinet minister to replace Madeleine Ogilvie, instead redistributing her portfolios…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,31817,44,298699],"class_list":["post-716129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-madeleine-ogilvie","tag-news","tag-tasmanian-parliament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}