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Latest news and comment on the Labor party and Australian politics
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Prime minister opens fire on opposition in final bid to get backpacker tax through Senate at 15% rate on last sitting day
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PM says critics don’t know ‘real job of getting things done’ and alternative to compromise was getting nothing done
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Protesters superglue hands to railing in public gallery and chant ‘Where is your moral compass?’ and other slogans in support of refugees and asylum seekers. As it happened
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Demonstrators from the Whistleblowers Activists and Citizens Alliance disrupt question time before being removed by security personnel
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Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen says Labor had sought to fix what had become a ‘rolling farce’ over the backpacker tax rate
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Mathias Cormann angrily denounces ‘cunning ploy’ – and says Coalition will not accept the amended 10.5% rate
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