Shorten's victory will bring dangerous counter strikes from a desperate government
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
An extraordinary amount of hype and some confected hysteria preceded Tuesday’s vote on the medical transfer legislation.
The government threw everything at trying to avoid a defeat. In a last stand, it fell back on a constitutional argument – backed by Solicitor-General advice - that carried no practical weight and was simply...