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We are about to embark on the final parliamentary sitting week of the year, and it promises to be ugly. Speaker Anna Burke will earn her money.

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The complete collapse of the Government’s measures to discourage boats loaded with asylum seekers from reaching our shores has the Coalition even more fired up than usual.

Julia Gillard no longer seems to have any defence against the charge that Labor opened our borders to people smugglers when it dismantled the Howard government’s policies.

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  • JoniM says:

    06:32pm | 25/11/12

    @Christian Real According to John Black (ex AWU and ALP rep) today, your mate K Rudd apparently now has 40 nervous caucus votes since the latest Gillard scandal revelations ! I wouldn’t waste your time trying to get rid of Abbott, the Coalition knows he will soon only have to… Read more »

  • marley says:

    01:41pm | 25/11/12

    @Christian Real - fair enough. I don’t see any particular reason why aborigines should all have the same views on issues.  Heaven knows, there’s a lot of difference in experience and viewpoints.  I just don’t get why you would castigate Abbott for wanting aborigines with different types of backgrounds to… Read more »

 

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