Labor has been holding talks all day and has agreed on three principles. All the day’s events, live
And that is where we are going to call it quits tonight.
But fear not – we’ll be back in about 12 hours. It is going to be that sort of year, me thinks.
Scott Morrison and Marise Payne will hold a press conference at 8.45 tonight to talk about Hakeem al-Araibi.
Tim Wilson, in his hurry to ‘help’, has overreached and anyone can see his position isn’t tenable
If it wasn’t already obvious, we have entered the “whatever it takes” stage of proceedings.
The Coalition wants to get back into the contest, and is on the hunt for the knockout blow, or blows. The core objective at the moment is to get the whole country roiling about Labor’s “retirement tax” (that isn’t a tax, just like the carbon tax was never a tax despite what Tony told us).
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