Crossbenchers urge Coalition and Labor to make deal on Nauru as hung parliament looms

Cathy McGowan says bipartisan solution needed as Rebekha Sharkie says current situation ‘untenable’

Cathy McGowan and Rebekha Sharkie are urging the major parties to reach a deal on getting children off Nauru as the crossbench flexes its king-making muscle anticipating the likely hung parliament after the declaration of the result in Wentworth.

McGowan, the Victorian independent, told Guardian Australia on Monday: “The Labor party has got to move on this and the government has got to move. We need a bipartisan solution.”

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