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In fact, Hastie criticised the military for continuing the investigation into the mutilations, claiming that the chopping off of hands arose because “it is critical when you are fighting the Taliban that you gather evidence and do what you can to investigate the precise...

“I can say with great confidence that those soldiers involved directly with the incident were acting in what they believed to be the appropriate process laid out by Defence”.

Although Opposition Leader Bill Shorten might prefer to have support for same-sex marriage as a point of policy difference with Mr Abbott, that would deny a say to Coalition backers who want legalised gay marriage, unless they accepted all Labor’s policy offerings.

In a marathon partyroom debate on Tuesday night, the Coalition decided against granting its members of parliament a free vote on marriage equality before the general election.

CALARE MP John Cobb says he was proud to be part of the federal Coalition’s joint party room meeting that rejected a conscience vote on same-sex marriage on Tuesday night.

There is nothing to fear from equality.

And Mr Shorten has pledged that a Shorten Labor government would move to make it law within its first 100 days.

‘A Labor government will support immigration, we will support refugees and we will not reopen the lethal seaway between Indonesia and Christmas Island, ‘ Mr Shorten said.