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Independent Senator David Pocock has again hit out at the government’s “rushed” industrial relations proposals but said he was unsure how long the Senate would need to pass the controversial bill.
Letter writer COLIN LYONS, of Weetangera, thinks our Legislative Assembly doesn’t sit nearly enough, especially compared to other parliaments. AFTER a recent meeting in the Legislative Assembly with one of the new members, I picked up a copy of the Sitting Calendar for 2021. I knew they didn’t sit for many weeks, but I was surprised just how little they did. So I did some international and interstate comparison. In 2018, the House of Commons sat for 122 days, the Canadian Lower House sat for 127 days, the US House of Representatives sat for 124, Japan’s Diet for 150 days, Germany’...