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Australia politics live: Andrew Wilkie moves motion on gambling ad free vote saying parliament ‘paralysed’ despite support for action
Independent calls on PM to respond to Murphy gambling review. Follow latest updates‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six monthsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe treasurer, Jim Chalmers, who’s doing the media rounds this morning, is next to defend the “savings” the departments have to come up with.On the Today show, he is asked: is the government being hypocritical here, considering the criticism they hurled at the Coalition for their proposed public servant cuts during the election?What the Coalition was proposing was to cut tens of thousands of jobs. What we are proposing or what we’re asking departments to suggest is ways to reprioritise their lower priority spending so that we can invest it in higher priority areas.There’s absolutely areas in the public service where we do need to think about making sure that we’re spending taxpayers money
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