Alan Tudge will not return to his post as education minister, although an independent inquiry concluded there was “insufficient evidence” to find he bullied or harassed a former staffer.
Vivienne Thom, who conducted the inquiry, said the evidence available to her was limited by the decision of the former staffer, Rachelle Miller, not to participate.
If Tudge had been returned to his ministerial duties the controversy would have been reignited, in an election when Scott Morrison will be under fire over issues to do with women.
