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MPsSilly?@JamesMcGrathLNPConnoisseurs!!!@GuardianAus@2GB873pic.twitter.com/gpzTfJ3MsKplane already here. Rupert or representative conducting interviews for speaker? #auspol 8.48am AESTSo Ive referenced the current Speaker,current climate targets – now to same-sex marriage. As MPs arrived at Canberra airport last night, they were greeted by a hashtag. 8.31am AESTThey’ve been caught red-handed with their hands on the income ...
This is the environment minister, and Greg Hunt,who is speaking to the ABC as we fade live this morning. This rhetorical mangle is about Labor and carbon pricing. While we were parted over the winter recess, the ALP locked in behind emissions trading, or which according to the man who once advised John Howard to adopt emissions trading (that would be Greg Hunt) is an act of unspeakable public policy wickedness. Don’t try and make sense of that story arc,it’s impossible.
Our policy couldn’t be clearer. 8.06am AESTGood morning everyone and welcome back to Canberra where our post-Bronwyn forecast is frost-free, clear skies, and with gusts of the unexpected.
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liamentarians are wandering back to the building via their approved and crosschecked taxpayer-funded forms of transport after the winter fracture (such as it was) to choose a current Speaker. Madam Speaker of course vacated her post a week or so ago over a small and barely remarked upon controversy that started with a party fundraiser and a helicopter.
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Source: theguardian.com

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