Prime Minister Scott Morrison has finalised his inner circle of advisers and is planning a series of brainstorming sessions for policy development that will ramp up by the year’s end.

All key positions for Morrison’s new team have now been finalised, following the appointment of the national security expert Andrew Shearer as cabinet secretary this week. 

Since the May election, the Prime Minister’s office has conducted a series of policy brainstorming sessions on issues including plastic waste, veterans affairs and Indigenous suicide.