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Parliament should stay sitting until its work is done

28 November 2016

4:10 PM

28 November 2016

4:10 PM

Parliament Sits As Warren Truss And Andrew Robb Announce Retirement From PoliticsWhere is Professor Triggs when you want her? How could the Turnbull government be so mean and petty and also, so lacking in elementary common sense over its backpackers’ tax?

If that’s not enough, Senator Xenophon’s rash threat of horse-trading over the bill to re-establish the Australian Building and Construction Commission is surely a breach of the principles of representative democracy.

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