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Australian PM confronts conspiracist lawmaker
AFP, SYDNEY
Australia’s prime minister was yesterday forced to bring a lawmaker from his own party to task for spreading COVID-19 pandemic disinformation, after a string of comments that threatened to undermine public safety.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison summoned Liberal Party lawmaker Craig Kelly after months of false claims that questioned the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, opposed lockdowns and promoted unproven treatments.
In a statement after the face-to-face meeting, Kelly said that he “agreed to support the government’s vaccine rollout, which has been endorsed by medical experts.”
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is pictured at the National Press Club in Canberra on Monday.
 Clive Palmer has given himself a whopping $5.9 million gift, as his political outfit matched the major parties in income, new documents have revealed. The Australian Electoral Commission on Monday morning released annual returns of political parties, showing the Australian Labor Party received $9.3 million in cash, its Queensland branch another $6.6 million, while the LNP racked in more than $10.3 million in 2019-20. The Federal Liberal Party also declared $13.15 million in receipts and the Nationals $1.76 million. Clive Palmer in Bundaberg. The largest single donation in the country in 2019-20 came from Mr Palmer s own company Mineralogy which gave $5.9 million. Pauline Hanson s One Nation declared $5.78 million in receipts, mostly from the Australian Electoral Commission and the party s state branches.