The University of Canberra’s Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics, including what the same-sex marriage plebiscite is doing to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, whether it’ll be an issue at the next election, Bill Shorten’s new tax proposal on family trust distributions, and the leak of the transcription of the conversation between US President Donald Trump and Turnbull earlier this year over the refugee swap deal.
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