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Barnaby Joyce is waving goodbye to the Nationals. (ABC News: Luke Stephenson)
Welcome back to your weekly federal politics update, where Courtney Gould gets you up to speed on the happenings from Parliament House.
As parliament wound up for the year, Labor joked two ghosts of Christmas past stalked the hallways.
The first, Malcolm Turnbull, was back for the unveiling of his prime ministerial portrait. The second, was Turnbull's former deputy prime minister, Barnaby Joyce, who confirmed his exit from the Nationals.
It's been more than seven years since Turnbull last addressed a crowd at Parliament House, on his final day as prime minister.
‘They’ve lost their way’: Turnbull unveils portrait, lets rip at former party
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For a moment, just a moment, it looked as if Anthony Albanese could break down in tears. On the final parliamentary sitting day of a long election year, the prime minister was speaking at the unveiling of Malcolm Turnbull’s official prime ministerial portrait.
Albanese wanted the crowd to know something about Malcolm the man, not just the politician.
“On a very personal level, there was a moment, nothing to do with politics, where Malcolm and [wife] Lucy, to me, showed their character, where they reached out to me at a difficult time in my personal life, and just had me to dinner,” Albanese said. “No one knows about it.”
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Crossbench MPs are not happy at the prospect of a secretive new committee of federal parliament to consider the Aukus nuclear submarine deal and Australiaâs involvement in military conflicts.
Labor and the Coalition are preparing to pass legislation to establish a joint house and Senate committee on defence, with a makeup mirroring the powerful parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security.
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