The first cabinet meeting on 29 April took place without a cabinet submission.
The cabinet submission was co-sponsored by the Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, and the attorney general, George Brandis.
Notwithstanding those bruising communications between Turnbull and Rudd, Bishop was asked to work up a cabinet submission that would be considered by the government after the election.
Hariri justified his sudden cabinet submission by stating that the opposition does not have the right to indefinitely hold the government to ransom.
Some ministers believe the detail of the citizenship legislation should be presented to cabinet for final decision, given that the last discussion occurred around a vague proposal without a cabinet submission or any kind of documentation or any legal advice.
The September 1987 cabinet submission produced little evidence to suggest this had occurred; indeed it noted that "the evidence suggests that local influences rather than tax measures dominate in metropolitan markets".
Bishop prepared a cabinet submission knowing the prime minister had some reservations about Rudd, but she proceeded, with consultation, in the expectation that he would follow the bipartisan practice of elevating former prime ministers to international roles.
In his November 1986 cabinet submission on the Mark III version of the Prices and Incomes Accord, Keating argued for a "two-tiered" wage system with a flat increase for all and a second capped increase based on productivity improvements.
