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Monthly Archives: September 2008

Senate likely to produce large reject pile

September 14, 2008 – 1:15 am

We have now seen the first two sitting weeks of the new Senate. Most attention was given to the rejection of the government’s legislation increasing the tax on luxury cars, with Family First’s Steve Fielding joining with the Coalition to knock off the Bill at the Second Reading stage, before any attempts could be made [...]

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Senate bashing makes a welcome return

September 11, 2008 – 2:12 pm

It only took one Bill being defeated in the Senate for the hand-wringing to start about mandates and legitimate government actions being frustrated by an obstructionist Senate.
Paul Kelly went into hyperbolic overdrive in The Australian, going even further than Paul Keating in some gratuitous Senate bashing.  Apparently, the new government is being “undermined by a [...]

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