Curtailing of parliamentary debate frustrates crossbench, terse words over bureaucrat’s tears, and unlikely bedfellows on excessive-deaths motion
The week in parliament: Albanese’s attempts to appease Dutton land Labor in a political quagmire of its own makingBut there was something in the air this week in the parliament, and it wasn’t harmony.
felt her greatest achievement was New Labour, then Dutton must be feeling pretty happy with Labor’s moves in the home affairs space. Trying to out-Dutton Peter Dutton – an uber-Dutton if you will – means Labor is not winning on the politics or the policy. It is also increasingly frustrating grassroots supporters who are watching the party’s policy platform morph into something unrecognisable.This week was definitely, from my perspective, a very disappointing week in our relations with the government.
One of the most famous quotes about journalism is that it is meant to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. and O’Neil found five different ways not to answer., to take up the tear-gate baton, and he did so with gusto in Senate estimates, asking Foster whether or not the government was concerned Foster had tabled a document detailing the criminal record of people released as a result of the high court’s NZYQ decision.
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