The University of Canberra’s Michelle Grattan and Michael de Percy discuss the week in politics, including the High Court date for the dual citizenship cases, whether Barnaby Joyce and Fiona Nash should stand aside from their ministerial duties, the early signs for the same-sex marriage postal vote, Labor’s campaign on inequality, Bill Shorten being targeted as a socialist, and whether Australia would assist the US in Afghanistan.

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