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Criticism poured in from all sides as soon as he presented his cabinet on Sunday afternoon and by Monday morning he had decided his position was untenable.

“This case is familiar to the Court and involves the increasingly familiar and untenable phenomenon of lower courts disregarding this Court’s orders on the emergency docket,” he said.

The company argues that union demands are untenable, with the company already offering competitive pay and benefits.

Given the parliamentary business minister has a fairly key role in engaging with opposition parties, Hepburn's position was simply untenable.

It left Selles' position untenable and he was removed from his position on Sunday morning, with a club statement saying the decision had been made following a "disappointing start" to the campaign.