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Marles says Tony Burke’s speech was moved, not cancelled
Marles was asked about home affairs minister Tony Burke’s delayed speech before the National Press Club about migration policies.
It’s not unusual for dates to be moved around in people’s diaries and in terms of presenting speeches of that kind. I think what’s important here in terms of migration policy is complex. It’s one that we’ve been working on since we’ve come to government.
Tony Burke will be talking about that and he’ll be talking about that at the National Press Club at the earliest opportunity.
Moving around dates in a diary for senior members of government is very routine. It happens literally all the time. The speech hasn’t been called off. A date has been changed. That literally happens every week. And there’s nothing more to it than that.
Continue reading...This article was originally published by The Guardian and written by Nick Visser.
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