The government's razor-thin majority in the House of Representatives is a recipe for instability and backbenchers will be able to hold the government to ransom, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has claimed.
An unapologetic Attorney-General George Brandis says that the greatest driver of former judge Brian Martin's decision to step down from the royal commission into Northern Territory juvenile detention was the unwanted attention on his daughter.
Senator Cory Bernardi has also bragged Labor frontbenchers were personally congratulating him for effectively blocking Mr Rudd's global ambitions.
Pauline Hanson's One Nation party has officially won its second Senate seat, claiming one of two final Senate spots in Western Australia. The other seat was won by the incumbent Greens Senator Rachel Siewert.
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