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Abbott Says It’s Situation Normal: A Government Without A Senate Majority

Prime Minister Tony Abbott says there is nothing unusual about the situation his government finds itself in with the Senate.

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Abbott said there was nothing unusual about a government not having a majority in the Senate. He pointed to the 13 years of the Hawke and Keating governments and all but one of John Howard’s four terms as examples. “No, we have got situation normal which is a Senate where the Government does not have a majority in its own right,” Abbott said.

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