Via The Australian:
Julia Banks has announced she will sit as an independent for the rest of the parliamentary term, plunging Scott Morrison further into minority government.
Ms Banks said she had quit the Liberal Party but would give the government support on key issues of confidence and supply.
That would be this, at SBS:
Cabinet Minister Kelly O’Dwyer has told colleagues the Liberals are widely regarded as “homophobic, anti-women, climate-change deniers” during a crisis meeting of federal Victorian MPs.
Ms O’Dwyer has launched an extraordinary spray against Liberal officials and “ideological warriors” for hijacking the party’s positions on social issues during a post-mortem of the disastrous Victorian state election result.
Bring on the negative gearing reform.
