Mark Butler has vowed to reintroduce the government’s controversial changes to private health insurance, but the opposition has told him to ‘take the hint’ after rejecting the bill. Meanwhile, Ukraine has said it was blindsided by disruption to Starlink.
BUTLER WON’T TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER
As the prime minister and treasurer were trying to convince everyone there was absolutely no issue between them yesterday, the health minister was having difficulties of his own.
Mark Butler has vowed to reintroduce his private health insurance changes to the Senate today, despite the upper chamber voting yesterday to effectively throw it out of parliament.
The Greens joined with the Coalition and crossbench senators to back a motion to strike the bill from the parliamentary agenda.