Published: December 06, 2018
Filibuster on medical evacuations allows final sitting day to end before vote Coalition was expected to lose
Labor has waved through the Morrison government’s encryption bill, capping off a day of high political drama where the prime minister managed to avoid a de facto vote of no confidence in the Coalition in the lower house.
A Senate filibuster thwarted efforts by the non-government parties to pass legislation that would have removed refugees from Nauru and Manus Island, forcing a situation where an incumbent government would have lost a substantive vote for the first time in almost 90 years.
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