Home Affairs minister Clare O’Neil was not earmarked for the sprawling portfolio until the high-profile Kristina Keneally failed in her attempt to move to the lower house.
The Harvard-educated mother-of-three won praise this week for her emotional speech after intimate personal details of abortions were published in the latest Medibank data breach.
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