With another boat load of asylum seekers intercepted and reports there are at least 10 Coalition MPs vowing to cross the floor on the ETS there’s plenty happening in Federal Parliament. You can see our Question Time coverage after the jump.

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    • U. Nerd says:

      04:49pm | 17/11/09

      I have slipped into uber nerd and have just had a quick read of the open thread after question time.

    • Paul says:

      04:45am | 18/11/09

      It’s pretty long. What I really want to decode from all the posturing is how the powerful coal companies etc are squeezing Rudd to get more profits out of the ETS? It’s ordinary people that are going to be nailed on this not the corporations right? Can you comment on this Tory?

 

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