Another week of parliament is over and there’s just one week of joint sittings remaining, which one dismayed Labor MP said on Thursday “leaves one more week to see how much further [lower] the bar can go”.
The bar in this case meant the “political” debate. It was somewhere at the bottom of Lake Baikal after the Indigenous voice referendum. After the past week, it’s firmly in the Earth’s core. After Labor capitulated to the opposition’s demands to toughen the restrictions on people the high court have ordered released from indefinite detention, the Coalition under Peter Dutton is gathering steam for round two.
