By Amy Remeikis
The (expected) extra week before the election is called means Labor will double its efforts in estimates, while the government moves on the budget hard sell. All today’s events, live
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Labor senator Murray Watt has been trying to ask Home Affairs department secretary Michael Pezzullo about a traffic incident involving an injured Canberra cyclist.
Liberal senator Ian Macdonald, who chairs the Senate’s legal and constitutional affairs committee, interrupted Watt and ruled the line of questioning out of order because he says it is irrelevant to department expenditure and is a personal matter.”
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There is speculation that one of the reasons the government has delayed calling the election is to continue taxpayer funded advertising in the meantime.
Labor has claimed the government is spending $600,000 on ads. Where does that figure come from?
Source: Government would support civil action against animal activists, Morrison says – politics live
