Episode 33: Malcolm’s Bankflip

Put your hands up, bend your knees, bounce around in a circle, get down with me. Oh come on, come on, it's not hard to learn. Come on, come on, it's called the U-turn.

What a week in Canberra! Malcolm Turnbull backflips and announces a banking royal commission, but is happy to let everybody else take the credit. What does this U-turn, and Labor’s likely Queensland election victory, mean for his leadership?

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Also, the same-sex marriage bill passes the Senate, and Labor senator Sam Dastyari resigns as opposition deputy whip in the Senate after an ~ explosive ~ recording emerges.

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Plus, Alice chats to Labor front bencher Linda Burney about the government rejecting the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

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