The actions of Australia's politicians in parliament come under fire on Q+A after a week that saw David Van leave the Liberals and Katy Gallagher grilled by the Coalition.
, while she was under parliamentary privilege.
But the leader of the National Party in the Senate, Bridget McKenzie, said the Coalition were right to examine the claims. Despite that, Mr Shorten said the way the Coalition went about questioning Senator Gallagher made him uncomfortable. "A lot of the issues that we've had around NDIS have been around people looking for reasons to justify people not getting into the scheme and limiting and capping support," she said.Mr Shorten then said he would look at Ms Slade's case before blaming alleged mismanagement of the NDIS by the Coalition.
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