Barnaby Joyce – who,along with Andrew Hastie,aired the issue during debate about Priya’s Bill last week – accused Ley of being disingenuous and misrepresenting their concerns.
Liberal Senator Jonno Duniam said he would do his part to calm debate but warned that Labor’s silence on migration targets was helping fuel conspiracies.
Nationals leader David Littleproud said his MPs had come to a unanimous position and would instead aim to bring down Australia’s carbon emissions in line with the rest of the world.
Four Coalition MPs have renewed a debate over “late-term abortions” in federal parliament,raising concern that laws guaranteeing paid leave for parents of stillborn children will be used by mothers whose pregnancies are terminated.
The acclaimed post-punk band’s name comes from a term for sexual slavery in concentration camps.
The real-time register could operate similarly to how energy companies provide live information and maps about outages on their websites.
Candidates with the biggest financial backing failed to get elected at the May election as Climate 200 and individual donors poured a record $27 million into community independent campaigns.
The fundraising vehicle tripled its number of donors to 33,000 people,and received $5 million between seven key contributors,as it expanded to back 35 candidates.
The home affairs minister acknowledged Australians were “deeply feeling the housing shortage” while lashing the opposition for taking a fact-free approach to public debate.
The sandstone university was the only institution to be knocked back in its bid to host a share of 17,500 extra foreign student places.