Shadow Portfolio — 12 May 2026
Bell, Angie MP's parliamentary activity on 12 May split between bipartisan cooperation and partisan attack. She backed the Public and Educational Lending Rights (Better Income for Authors) Bill as a sensible governance update, while flagging that the frozen $28 million funding pool fails to deliver the improved author incomes the bill's title promises — a gap the coalition intends to press.
In a separate chamber statement, Bell attacked the government's economic record on inflation, housing, and energy costs, a critique mirrored the same day in the Senate by One Nation's Senator Sean Bell, who framed the net-zero transition as a direct financial threat to regional communities and farmland.
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