Submarine-like devices are being deployed into Adelaide's wastewater network throughout metropolitan Adelaide, as the Marshall Liberal Government further.
She and Todd Muller were facing questions from the gallery on their way into caucus about the lack of racial diversity in their front bench, when Kaye volunteered out of nowhere that Paul Goldsmith – possibly the whitest man in the world – actually descended from Ngāti Porou stock. In the chaotic minutes that followed, Goldsmith confirmed twice to media he was not in fact Māori, including when Kaye asked him directly in front of the cameras. Paula Bennett, who Kaye had recently replaced, spoke for almost all of the political class when she broke into laughter.
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Beehive Diaries: Speaker Trevor Mallard, the legal bills and the H word
11 Dec, 2020 02:42 AM
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What s good for the goose is good for the Mallard The word hypocrite is banned in Parliament, but not in Beehive Diaries and Speaker Trevor Mallard has found himself charged with it after he settled a defamation case against him for describing a former staffer s actions as amounting to rape .
Mallard settled the case out of court, but would not reveal any further details, saying it was subject to a non-disclosure agreement.