Shadow Aged Care Minister Clare O’Neil says she welcomes a bit more competition in Australian politics.
“What you’re seeing now is the Liberals can’t pretend to be doing the right thing on climate change when they’ve got these very well-informed independents who are challenging some of their senior people.
“We should never suggest that there’s illegitimacy to new political parties and political movements rising up, and I think they’re having a really important impact on the quality of debate.”
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