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Including to the rising listing of MPs selecting to stop politics on the subsequent election, Nationals MP Damian Drum has introduced he’ll retire.
Drum, who’s a former AFL coach, has labored in state and federal politics, taking the seat of Nicholls in 2016, after being in Liberal arms for 20 years.
I’m very conscious that it is a job the place something lower than 110 per cent is doing a disservice to the individuals who have put their religion in you to characterize them.
What we noticed in query time this week was the prime minister brandishing what is basically the identical draft laws the previous legal professional normal put collectively greater than a 12 months in the past … And nothing’s modified.
I might love the federal government to take a seat down with me … to place collectively a committee of each main events and the crossbench to come back collectively and get it completed for the Australian individuals as a result of the federal government doesn’t appear to want to do it by itself.
