Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says, “a bloke standing on a bit of grass” at the site where the government cancelled the lease of a second Russian embassy does not represent a national security threat.
It’s been another bruising week of political debate about the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, after the referendum bill cleared parliament on Monday. Federal political report Lisa Visentin has drawn the threads together inThe Coalition will argue there is an alternative pathway to constitutional recognition in a bid to set Labor up to take the blame for an unsuccessful referendum.
The government will portray the Voice as being narrowly focused on addressing Indigenous disadvantage and the Coalition’s attacks as a scare campaign. Russia’s High Court injunction, lodged on Friday, argues that the government did not have just grounds to terminate the lease. A spokesman for Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil said: “Russia’s challenge to the validity of the law is not unexpected. This is part of the Russian playbook.”
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