Michelle Grattan speaks with the Director of the University of Canberra’s Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis Mark Evans about the week in Australian politics. They discuss Senator David Leyonhjelm’s offensive comments to Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, the government’s planned GST reform, and Tony Abbott’s calls for Australia to withdraw from the Paris Climate agreement.

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