Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus and his shadow, Michaelia Cash, are both volatile characters. When they met this week to discuss the Government’s draft religious discrimination bill, an incendiary issue in the best of circumstances, sparks flew.
After a few minutes, Cash stormed out, with subsequent conflicting claims of who’d behaved badly. Whatever the truth of this unedifying “she said, he said” dispute, the more important point is that the religious discrimination legislation looks near-dead, albeit not yet cremated.
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