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Barnaby Joyce declares the COVID parliament curbs democratic rights

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce has condemned the slimmed down, part-virtual COVID parliament as living “in a half life” and compromising democratic rights.

“No disease in 2020 should interfere in your parliamentary democratic rights. Parliament in a half life is not a parliament, it is merely a rather large building, kind...

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