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It was a rather more gentle introduction for Ali France, the new Labor MP who defeated Peter Dutton at the last election, who gave a very moving, personal maiden speech about the obstacles she has overcome on her way to becoming an MP.
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It’s been a baptism of fire for the Australian Greens leader, Larissa Waters, who has begun her first parliamentary session in the top job with an internal crisis over the expulsion of co-founder Drew Hutton.
When asked last night on ABC’s 7.30 about the exact reasons for Hutton’s defenestration from the party, Waters said that she had not read the relevant doblockentation and that it had been dealt with “by the party”.
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Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then Krishani Dhanji will take the controls.
Larissa Waters is likely to face more questions today about the Greens’ handling of the expulsion of co-founder Drew Hutton. She told the ABC’s 7.30 last night that she had not read the relevant doblockentation on the case and had left the process “to the party”. More coming up.
An inquiry into Queensland’s child safety system begins in Brisbane today with calls for transformational change to better protect vulnerable children. The inquiry, which is expected to last 17 months and cost an estimated $20m, will investigate the system’s failures and the damage it has caused and will recommend changes. We have more coming up and we’ll bring you updates when it gets under way later this morning.
Parliament will resume as Labor takes the first steps to implement its second term agenda. The education minister, Jason Clare, is due to deliver on Labor’s election promise by introducing legislation to the lower house to slash university debt for three million Australians by 20%.
Plus the national parliament’s first question time in more than 100 days! What a treat.
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