What we learned; Sunday, 22 January
With that, we will wrap up the blog for the evening. Stay safe and dry out there!
Here were today’s major developments:
Jim Chalmers and Peter Dutton have butted heads today on the Indigenous voice to parliament. The treasurer said Dutton had “reached for the Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison playbook” and was seeking to sow division rather than genuinely desiring more detail on the voice.
The opposition leader hit back, suggesting “Bob Hawke or John Howard would never have conducted themselves this way”.
New Zealand’s new prime minister Chris Hipkins used his first address today to thank his predecessor Jacinda Ardern as an “inspiration to women and girls everyone”. He promised to focus on “bread and butter” issues that “people care about”.
Two National Disability Insurance Scheme providers and five people associated with them have been banned from providing services to people with a disability, following fraud claims.
And the NSW Coalition is on track to lose the March state election as premier Dominic Perrottet’s popularity wanes. A YouGov poll, published in The Sunday Telegraph, shows the government well behind in both first preference and two-party preferred standings.
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The people have spoken – and they really like tennis.
A record 94,854 people attended the @AustralianOpen yesterday.
— Steve Dimopoulos MP (@Steve_Dimo) January 22, 2023
