Grattan on Friday: Suspense over medical transfers bill goes down to the wire
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The battle over the medical transfers legislation has become something of a thriller for political tragics.
The government is desperate to head off a defeat next week on the bill. That’s just elevated the issue.
If it had let the legislation, passed by the Senate, go to the House of Representatives last year, instead of staging a filibuster,...
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