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Former speaker and Liberal MP Bronwyn Bishop says the Greens are a ‘disgusting’ party of anti-Semites who want to ‘destroy the country’. Ms Bishop says the Labor Party happily draws votes from the Greens and ‘nothing is said’, unlike when Liberals accept votes from One Nation. Ms Bishop says Labor wants One Nation preferences, which they receive when the Liberals ‘declare war’ on One Nation and vice versa.
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