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In case you missed it yesterday, the South Australian parliament passed a motion of no confidence in deputy premier Vickie Chapman for misleading statements over her refusal of a Kangaroo Island development application, reports Max Opray from AAP.
With 23 MPs voting in favour and 22 against, the vote marks the first time in South Australian history a no-confidence motion has been passed in the lower house against a minister.
She now is tainted, she now has a proven reputation for misleading this house, and we can no longer have confidence in her for this reason.
Blatant denialism of objective evidence and plain truth does the attorney-general no favour.
A lot of bluff, a lot of bluster from those opposite, but no cognisant argument that would support this motion...
[Chapman] enjoys my 100 per cent confidence.
We don’t see it from any other ambassador here in Australia. It’s quite remarkable. It’s not just in Australia, it’s in India, Japan, in most other countries in the world, this type of diplomacy, this provocative sort of comical statements, it’s so silly it’s funny. I think the acting ambassador is reading off a script from the Communist Party. I think most Australians see through the non-productive nature of the comments and they should be dismissed in that same vein.
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