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Australia - Playing Footsie With the Politics of Race and Fear

Kimberley Kitching, Senator for Victoria, Australian Labor Party

25-Mar-19 08:05

Australia - Playing Footsie With the Politics of Race and Fear

The Australian elections are imminent, and the Labor Party, which lost the last elections in 2013, hopes to have the privilege of forming the government in Canberra once again. Ahead of the polls, we speak to Kimberley Kitching, Senator for Victoria, on the Labor Party's reform agenda, Australian politics, as well as gun legislation following the Christchurch shootings.

Presented by: Lyn Mak


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Categories:  Politics,  Law and Legal Matters,  Social Issues

Tags:  australia,  labor party,  elections,  gun laws,  christchurch,  income gap, 


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