9 Oct 2024

Australia: Bipartisan condolence fail, Tourettes apology

From Nine To Noon, 9:50 am on 9 October 2024
Australian and New New Zealand Prime Ministers Anthony Albanese and Christopher Luxon meet in Sydney

Photo: RNZ / Angus Dreaver

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton looks at Parliament's failed attempt to mark the first anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel with a commemorative motion, after the Opposition refused to support it.

The Prime Minister was forced to make an apology to people with Tourettes after he said the Opposition were acting like they had the syndrome - all "babble, babble, babble".

And the doctor who found some disgusting results from the swabs he took of people's phones at a medical conference...

Karen Middleton is political editor of the Guardian Australia

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