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“We're going to prevent politics from abusing the parliament and going off playing politics around the country when they should be here at work.” quote by Tony Burke — Download Open image

“We're going to prevent politics from abusing the parliament and going off playing politics around the country when they should be here at work.”

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The challenge we've got is that the Government does not have a working majority. They don't.

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Malcolm Turnbull, more than anyone, changes month to month on a range of issues.

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The claim that the Government made that there were 21 measures in it is wrong. We said we wanted to wait till we saw…

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Malcolm Turnbull got a majority in the parliament that he is trying to ignore and lock his own members of parliament into positions that…

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It's a bit much describing it as a moral challenge from a government that's tripled the deficit and added $100 billion to net debt.

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