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Will they or won't they (block supply)?

26 March 2016

9:00 AM

26 March 2016

9:00 AM

What a heartless man Malcolm Turnbull is. The autumn travel plans of scores of people lie in ruins. Those poor suffering souls − MPs, families and staff − must wait until winter. The taxpayers weep for them. Nonetheless, the vice regal prorogation of the Parliament and its recall on 18 April is a just reward for those delinquent senators who engaged in pointless filibustering almost up to the Palm Sunday vigil.

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