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Australian politics live: Christian Porter threatens legal action over 'defamatory claims'
Attorney general hits back at claims made on ABC’s Four Corners; Labor secures Senate inquiry into the aviation sector; and Australia Post chair says he would have blocked purchase of luxury watches. Follow all the latest updates• Coronavirus global news – live updates• Trump fires defense secretary – US politics live• Christian Porter was warned by PM in 2017 over reports of ‘drinking with young women’ 9.29pm GMT Australia has a seat on the UN committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.Congratulations to @NStottDespoja AO - elected today to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women #CEDAW. This is the first time that an Australian will have served on the Committee in almost thirty years! pic.twitter.com/xo2vys5MzVI congratulate Ms Natasha Stott Despoja AO on her election to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.Ms Stott Despoja is the first Australian to serve on the Committee in almost thirty years, following the membership of the Hon Elizabeth Evatt AC. 9.26pm GMT Here is how some coalition MPs are dealing with the Four Corners program:So @mattjcan is on Sky describing 4 corners as “gutter journalism” for reporting concerns of former female Liberal staffer about culture in Parliament and her affair with a senior minister.Mr Canavan then adds for record he has not watched the program?"It's a consensual relationship between two adults" @Barnaby_Joyce "If you've got a problem with that, that's a role for the police or a priest, but not another politician to be arbiter of how two people feel about each other" #auspol @SBSNews pic.twitter.com/XYd3TOctg3 Continue reading...
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