Last week we had a reshuffled ministry because Bridget McKenzie had resigned over “sports rorts”. This week the instability within the Coalition continued and by the end of the week the sports rorts story was back in the news and knocking on the Prime Minister’s door.
Read MoreHere’s the #5and5 for the first sitting week of 2020:
Read MoreThe best and worst Parliament has to offer was certainly on full display during the last sitting week of 2019
Read MoreIt’s a pretty simple summary of the best and worst. Best week for Labor. Worst week for the Liberals and Nationals.
Read MoreIt was looking for a while like we could go a full two weeks without Angus Taylor being embroiled in a new scandal. But no. You can’t. Fantastic. Great move. Well done Angus…
Read MoreEvery single day this week Scott Morrison proved he can’t give straight answers to simple questions.
Read MoreWe all arrived back after a weekend where Scott Morrison had denied ever using a phrase which he had used at least seventeen times.
Read MoreThis was a week of extremes, with the best and worst of our parliamentary system on full display. Which was helpful when you want to write about the best and worst things that happened.
Read MoreIt was meant to be their three-week victory lap. But by the end of week three plenty of Government members were desperate for Parliament to just stop.
Read MoreThis was our first full week of Parliament since the election. The Government was briefing journalists in the lead up to Monday about how dominant they would be in the Parliament. Well… that’s not quite how it turned out for them.
Read MoreIf we’d won I was going to stop calling the email the #5and5 and turn it into the #6and4 because more good things happen under a Labor Government.
Read MoreThis was a week when the contrast couldn't be greater. Bill Shorten ready to lead, Scott Morrison ready to shout.
Read MoreThe Senate team led a lot of the news reports this week with some extraordinary work in Senate Estimates. The questioning of the Federal Police, Foreign Affairs, and Finance kept exposing more and more failings by the Government. And each new piece of evidence gathered in the Senate found its way straight to the floor of the House of Reps.
Read MoreIt wasn't only the first week back for 2019. It wasn't only the beginning of just 10 sitting days in an eight-month period. This was the week that we had the shortest constitutional crisis in history and the longest Question Time in history. Here’s the 5and5.
Read MoreRemember last week I hinted that this week could be even worse than last week? Here’s the #5and5
Will we ever get to the worst possible week for this Government? There’s an old Hopkins poem “No worst, there is none.”
Read MoreThe week began with Parliament at its best. And finished with, well, Parliament being Parliament.
Read MoreThis was the week to find out what happens when the advertising guy is put in charge of the nation. Mess. Chaos. Madness. Call it what you want.
I’ve skipped the attacks the Libs made on the Libs and the Nats made on other Nats. If I included their division this email would go forever. So here’s the rest of the week we just had in Parliament.
Read MoreMonday seems such a long time ago. The politics of this week has been covered everywhere and I’ll still go through much of it.
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