Passing the marriage equality bill through the lower house, travelling to remote India to meet with the Dalai Lama; it's business as usual for Senator Derryn Hinch
Wow. I wasn’t living in Australia for The Dismissal. I wasn’t in Canberra when Gillard rolled Rudd and then vice-versa, nor when Turnbull dispatched Abbott.
The tension, the excitement, the adrenalin rush, must have been palpable.
It was all back-door deals and prime-ministerial jumping castles in Canberra this week, writes Senator Derryn Hinch.
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