Will ACT give up its Ministerial roles?

The other speculation doing the circles is that rather than decide which two ACT MPs continue as Ministers, Don may have ACT surrender their portfolios, which would give ACT greater room to criticise the Government (but still maintaining a confidence and supply agreement).

Thw downsides for ACT in doing so is that two of their MPs will take a huge pay cut. Also they will lose a dozen staff or so. In return they get around $130,000 extra Leader’s Office funding.

In political terms they will lose the ability to manage government policy in their assigned portfoio areas, and the publicity they get from that.

However they would gain a greater ability to differentitate themselves from the Government, and be seen as a party focused on principle, not power.

Again this is speculation, and I doubt anyone knows for sure what Don will decide (and it will be his decision, not a caucus decision).