New Ipsos poll puts Coalition ahead of Labor 53% to 47% on a two-party preferred basis as former Senate leader Eric Abetz unleashes on the Canberra press gallery. All the day’s developments from Canberra 8.39am BSTEstimates is just getting into stride now after a day of limbering but I mediate we’ll fold the Politics Live tent for this evening. Today has been all the things a day in national politics always is: live,real, special, or rowdy. 8.04am BSTThe PM&C officials (with ears ringing) have now been excused. In the chair currently is the new National Security Legislation Monitor,Roger Gyles. He’s just told the committee he’s signed off today on a new report to the prime minister on section 35P of the Asio act – this is the section that criminalises publication of information approximately special intelligence operations. This is the section that media organisations want repealed on the basis that criminalising publication is a draconian curb on speech. We’ll all be very interested to see that report, and this timeline means it should be in the public domain by the halt of the year.
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Source: theguardian.com