The Liberal MP is on the brink of extinction
Key points:
- Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says the party does support constitutional recognition
- He says the Liberals will advocate for the policy of regional and local voices they took to the election
- At least one Liberal MP has confirmed they do not agree with the party’s position
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton announces the Liberals’ formal opposition to the federal government’s model for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, after a party room meeting in Canberra.
Source: Liberal Party confirms it will oppose the Indigenous Voice to Parliament – ABC News
On Saturday, Defence Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles observed “there are precious few moments when you get to be in the presence of history”. He’s not wrong, the Aston byelection result was historic. But it was a historic result rendered less surprising though not less significant by the political conditions fashioned by the true architect of the modern Liberal Party’s enduring malaise: Howard.
Source: How the ghost of John Howard haunted the Aston byelection.
"Clive Palmer has enlisted the help of his previous political opponent and former attorney-general Christian Porter in a $296 billion case against the Commonwealth for its alleged role in blocking compensation of his rejected mining project. The unlikely duo have heaped blame on the Australian government, claiming it was significantly involved in the execution of a WA law that prevented any payout to Palmer for a Pilbara iron ore project rejected by the state’s government. Porter will lead a band of 10 lawyers (himself included) to take on the Commonwealth.Geoffrey Watson SC, director of the Centre for Public Integrity and former counsel assisting the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), said it was appalling that a former Commonwealth attorney-general would appear to sue the Commonwealth.“The role of an attorney-general has been the Commonwealth’s senior lawyer privy to all its secrets and its legal strategies. To then try and turn that into a market commodity appals me,” he told Crikey.“It feels like a betrayal.”
"Clive Palmer has enlisted the help of his previous political opponent and former attorney-general Christian Porter in a $296 billion case against the Commonwealth for its alleged role in blocking compensation of his rejected mining project.
The unlikely duo have heaped blame on the Australian government, claiming it was significantly involved in the execution of a WA law that prevented any payout to Palmer for a Pilbara iron ore project rejected by the state’s government.
Porter will lead a band of 10 lawyers (himself included) to take on the Commonwealth.
Geoffrey Watson SC, director of the Centre for Public Integrity and former counsel assisting the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), said it was appalling that a former Commonwealth attorney-general would appear to sue the Commonwealth.
“The role of an attorney-general has been the Commonwealth’s senior lawyer privy to all its secrets and its legal strategies. To then try and turn that into a market commodity appals me,” he told Crikey.
“It feels like a betrayal.”
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