Scott Morrison
Scott Morrison is an Australian politician and member of the Coalition government. He is currently minister for immigration and border protection
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'The Speaker is not resigning': Bronwyn Bishop digs in over expenses scandalSpeaker defiant despite facing growing pressure for her resignation over travel claims and looming no-confidence motion when parliament resumes
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Julia Gillard says Australia has gone backwards in political gender gapFormer prime minister says Australia has slid in global rankings ‘as other nations have gone ahead’ and both major parties need to boost women in their ranks
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Labor's boat turnback option a 'bad karaoke version' of Coalition policyScott Morrison derides Labor as ‘very poor impersonators’ as Tony Abbott refuses to comment on whether an intercepted boat was returned to Vietnam
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Bill Shorten will win support for boat turnback policy, powerbroker predictsIt will be a close call at the ALP conference, admits Stephen Conroy, as Anthony Albanese expresses ‘grave concerns’ about the planned change
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Scott Morrison confronted by disability support protester – video
Social services minister Scott Morrison is confronted by a disability support protester during a press conference at the ACOSS national conference.
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Greens senator Larissa Waters attacked after invoking Pope on climate change – as it happenedCoalition attempts to clarify its position on education funding, while Labor has won support for a Senate inquiry into credit card interest rates. As it happened
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Coalition evades questions on claims people smugglers were paid – politics liveThe Greens help Tony Abbott secure pension reform; the mystery of payments to people smugglers rolls on; and goings on at the annual press gallery Midwinter Ball will now be off the record. All the developments from Canberra, live
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Coalition and Greens cooked up a 'filthy' deal on pensions, says LaborJenny Macklin says government’s deal with the Greens to tighten the part-pension’s eligibility test will take money out of the pockets of 330,000 pensioners
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Abbott and Hockey at odds over Labor's economic modelling of budget impactsThe prime minister says it’s fraudulent, but the treasurer says it follows the usual practice of ignoring second-round effects
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Morrison rejects modelling showing budget hits low income families hardest‘What it doesn’t take into account is the investments … to create jobs; the best form of welfare is a job,’ social services minister says
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Tony Abbott flags new laws to crack down on foreign fightersCoalition expected to introduce legislation this week which would remove Australian citizenship from dual nationals, but Labor says it won’t commit until it sees the detail
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Senate shapes up as budget blocker over pensions and family paymentsDespite the positive budget reception, concerns about long-term impacts seem to have put significant savings on a collision course with the crossbench again
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