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News live: Labor accuses Coalition of ‘stunt’ politics over plan to criminalise people helping Australians leave Syria
Meanwhile Save the Children says effort to ‘criminalise advocacy for Australian children’ would be extraordinary. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese says former opposition leader, Sussan Ley was “undermined” by conservative colleagues, Angus Taylor and Andrew Hastie, during her 276-day tenure in the seat.Speaking to Hit 104.9, which covers Ley’s southern NSW electorate of Farrer, the prime minister criticised the Coalition’s recent internal turmoil while praising his own side of politics. Albanese said:From day one, she was undermined by Angus Taylor and Andrew Hastie and a range of them who weren’t really working to try to get her success in the party. …It’s, I think, unfortunate that politics can be a pretty rough game, and that [Ley] was elected by the Liberal party caucus, fair and square, she was the leader, but never even got to give a budget reply. I don’t
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