It comes as Scott Morrison backtracked on the Federal Government’s support for Clive Palmer.

The Federal Government on the weekend revealed it would no longer be involved in the High Court challenge to WA’s border, because the situation regarding the seriousness of the pandemic had changed.

But Anthony Albanese demanded more answers about this backflip.

“One of the questions to be asked of the prime minister in terms of accountability is why is it that the Attorney-General, who is WA-based, as well as the Prime Minister, said they had no alternative but to support Clive Palmer’s high court challenge last week, but this week have reversed that position,” he said.

“How is it possible that both those things are okay? Either last week the government was simply wrong when it said that it had no choice, or they’ve got some other advice saying that it’s okay for them to pull out of their support.”

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