How the big parties feathered their Senate nests

By Malcolm Mackerras
Updated January 4 2018 - 9:48am, first published August 18 2016 - 5:16pm
It seems the two main parties want to cheat Derryn Hinch out of the six-year terms to which he was elected on July 2. Photo: Scott Barbour, Getty Images
It seems the two main parties want to cheat Derryn Hinch out of the six-year terms to which he was elected on July 2. Photo: Scott Barbour, Getty Images

On the afternoon of Friday, August 12, I came home early from my office at the Australian Catholic University. Once settled, I turned on ABC News 24 and saw crawling on their bottom line this piece of news: "Pauline Hanson secures six-year Senate term under major parties deal".

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