Retrograde Quote by George Brandis

“I think it would be frankly a retrograde thing for Pauline Hanson to be elected to the Senate.” quote by George Brandis — Download Open image

“I think it would be frankly a retrograde thing for Pauline Hanson to be elected to the Senate.”

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That was an extremely unhelpful thing for Bill Shorten to say because those of us - and as the Attorney-General I've been closely involved in this along with my colleague Nigel Scullion, the Minister for Indigenous Affairs - what we have been trying to do for some years now, throughout the life of the Coalition Government in fact, is to…

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If there were to be a Labor-Greens government, that would be the end of the Adani mine, that would be the end of coal mining in central Queensland, and that would be the end of their best shot at economic prosperity in the future.

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