And tuning back to the proposed 11th amendment to the constitution that was all the new last week - until government decided to just kind of push it under the parliamentary rug at the last minute - today the Prime Minister defended the need to define standards for elected officials:

Fact checking the PM we note that the constitution at section 58 only says that those who are under sentence of death, serving a sentence of more than 12 months at the time of election or have been convicted of election fraud are disqualified from being a member of the house.

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