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Back in the economics committee, the deputy chair, Labor MP Andrew Leigh is asking questions now. Leigh asks Philip Lowe whether he agrees with the OECD that the fiscal stimulus rolled out during the pandemic should not be withdrawn prematurely?
Lowe answers carefully, given the government is already in the process of withdrawing the stimulus.
South Australia has finally abolished the ‘gay panic’ defence.
That was a legal defence, which allowed men to argue in court they were ‘provoked’ into violence by an unwanted sexual advance from another man.
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