No Regrets: Australia’s Longest Serving Finance Minister Quits Politics

Finance Minister Mathias Cormann departs the Senate at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia on Oct. 6, 2020. Sam Mooy/Getty Images

Australia’s longest serving finance minister has officially resigned to contest the leadership of a powerful global economic advisory body.

Mathias Cormann, who entered the Senate in 2007, has no regrets from his time in federal politics.