julie bishop on insiders, page-28

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    even if tony crook sits on the cross bench on tuesday, he will still be part of coalition.
    If he votes against one coalition policy I will be very surprised.
    If toes the line on coalition policy he is member of the coalition I say.
    73-72 still stands.
    there are now four indpendents and one green (bandt)
    windsor
    oakeshott
    wilkie
    kattor

    one labor member is the speaker
    so labor actually has 71 now
    kattor is likely to go with coalition so that gets us to 74
    oakeshott, windsor, wilkie, bandt will go with labor
    71 plus 4 = 75
    75-74
    no pairing
    so if plibersek has a month off or rudd is overseas that will bring the numbers to 74-74
    the speaker has the casting vote so I suppose most labor bills will get through, if not all.
 
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