Sussan Ley's chief of staff is a young, political animal
Shachar appeared in the Q&A audience as a chirpy questioner not once, but twice. In 2013, the fresh-faced future politico was called on by Tony Jones to lob a question to Anthony Albanese about Kevin Rudd. A year later, there he was again asking Clive Palmer about his former Liberal allegiances.
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