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No sooner had Labor hit the magic 76-seat mark, it went one better. And 77 is even more magic than 76, because it relieves Labor of the need to find a Speaker of the House of Representatives.
On Tuesday Labor’s Fiona Phillips claimed victory in her NSW south coast seat of Gilmore against one of the more formidable Liberal campaigners of Election 22, former NSW transport minister Andrew Constance.
If 76 seats is a good result for Labor, 77 is a great one. With 76 seats, Labor might have faced a tricky situation whereby its appointed Speaker would have been forced to provide the tie-breaking vote in the event of a 75-75 split (admittedly an unlikely split given the nature of the crossbench). With 77, Labor can scotch any ideas of trying to lure an MP from the other side of the aisle to serve as Speaker. This avoids a repeat of the schemozzle of 2011-12 when Labor did a deal with the devil in the form of Liberal rebel Peter Slipper.
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Cruz, who blamed last week’s shooting in Uvalde on the abundance of doors at the school, said the number of doors in the US had been allowed to increase unchecked.
Source: America introduces strict new background checks for buying doors | The Shovel
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