5&5: Jim’s barber

We’ve been so busy delivering in Parliament that we ran out of time to do the 5&5 last week. Better late than never. Covering last week and this week’s Senate-only sitting.

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Tony Burke
5&5: Irresponsible and a sook

Both the House and the Senate were back for the second week of this sitting fortnight. A lot was happening this week, including a visit from Indonesia’s President-elect Prabowo Subianto.

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5&5: Hammer and sickle

The final sitting week before the winter break. My guest on the podcast this week is Minister for Industry and Science, and Member for Chifley, Ed Husic. You can listen the the latest episode here.

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5&5: Scared weird little guys

A big week in Parliament with some really important figures coming through late in the week showing unemployment down to 3.7 per cent. It means that since we came to office 790,000 jobs have been created. 

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5&5: Blank Space

Another big week, with big pieces of legislation passing. On Tuesday we also had a really important event - the 16th anniversary of the National Apology to Stolen Generations.

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5&5: The purpose of mugs

We learnt this week that the Greens Party have made a decision to team up with the Coalition against the Government’s agenda. They had a chance to vote on our Housing Australia Future Fund and instead of supporting tens of thousands of new homes – sided with the Libs and the Nats to defer a vote in the Senate. More on that later.


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