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In a nation where politicians insist it is time to open up and learn to live with COVID-19, Parliament House in Canberra was among the most locked-down buildings in the country on Tuesday.
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese and Prime Minister Scott Morrison during an apology in the House of Representatives.Anthony Albanese’s opposition tried every which way to demand the government debate the COVID crisis that has taken the lives of more than 600 in aged care homes this year, and has infected almost 12,000 residents and workers in more than 1100 facilities.
Liberal senator Gerard Rennick waded into this sea of exotica, promising to help fight the mandates, to get a protest letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison and to “make sure our children don’t get vaccinated”. The group, followed by police and security staff, were permitted to go no further than Kelly’s office, where they sat around for half an hour, not a mask to be seen.The Prime Minister, forced by protocol to sit in the House within a metre of his deputy, Barnaby Joyce – the fellow whoin a phone text to Brittany Higgins – comforted himself by spending almost 10 minutes congratulating the Queen on her platinum jubilee.
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