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How Pauline Hanson fractured the Coalition

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Australian Senators Vote No to Vaccine Discrimination

Five senators from within the coalition crossed the floor to vote for pauline hanson's proposed bill, this anti vaccine mandate bill. The senate on monday overwhelmingly rejected the hanson bill, forty four votes to five. Now the revolt has spread to the lower house, with two queensland nationals, george christianson and lewis o'brien, threatening to cause chaos in this sitting fortnight. But there was one voice in the senate that cut through a lot of the noise - tasmanian independent jackie lamby. Here she accused the morrison government of double peak on vaccinations,. She said the prime minister needed to stop playing both sides because it was dangerous

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