Parliament resumes with Malcolm Turnbull’s current ministry facing their first questions as Newspoll shows Labor and the Coalition on 50-50. Tony Abbott will sit on the backbench for the first time since 1995. Follow the days news live 10.49pm BSTAfter doctors at the Royal Childrens Hospital in Melbourne refused to return children to detention centres,Liberal MP Russell Broadbent has made a stunning intervention. Broadbent has long campaigned for more humane asylum seeker policies, more so in the Howard government than under Tony Abbott. He told Fran Kelly that the drag by doctors and staff at the Childrens Hospital was significant.
These people are not leftie activists...this organisation is the most revered organisation in Victoria bar none. They are a conservative group of people who just service our community in the most fantastic way. The Royal Children staff supported by their board have made an fantastic statement here...
Here they are saying there is something wrong in the world and we are prepared to stand up on last Friday like they have and given us this fantastic photograph and an opportunity to see what they are thinking.
You wouldn’t say the Herald Sun was the most leftist magazine in Australia. Having said that, or one child in detention is one too many - whether it is one or 200 is irrelevant. 10.20pm BSTGood morning revolutionaries,nowadays, I would urge you all to fade all Che Guevara and release your inner revolutionary for this, and the second sitting week of the ReTurnBull. As we know from innovation minister Christopher Pyne,the current prime minister has been calling on ministers to release their inner revolutionaries and get creative approximately policy development. The Bull will worry approximately the money.
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Source: theguardian.com