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Politics live: November 21, 2013
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As the first sitting fortnight makes a hasty escape to the airport (let's get out of here), what have we learned from the day?
- Be careful on Twitter. Especially if you are going to compare people to adult entertainment performers;
- Keep calm in a diplomatic crisis. That's what Alexander Downer reckons; although
- Some people in Indonesia are not particularly calm, if flag burning is any indication;
- Labor think they're onto something really clever with the "Abbott Axe". The rest of us are less convinced; and
- Greg Hunt not only repeals taxes, he also cracks jokes.
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"Mr Abbott is stupid," "Abbott you hurt my heart."
These are some of the signs that have been carried outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta today.
Several hundred protestors gathered and burnt paper replicas of the Australian and US flags.
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As Tony Abbott ponders what to write back to SBY, a former Indonesian "spy master" (what a job title!) has accused the Indonesian President of exaggerating the phone tap problem.
Abdullah Mahmud Hendropriyono has also insisted that tapping phones of MPs was a routine part of "black intelligence".
Michael Bachelard reports, "Hendropriyono, the head of Badan Intelijen Negara until 2004, has been thrust into the Australian political debate because of a TV interview he gave in 2004, in which he admitted to bugging Australian politicians.
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You have to admire Bowen's ability to find a positive angle.
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Back to the debt ceiling issue for a moment.
The Treasurer and his Shadow are conducting a debate via the small bird this afternoon.
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While all of this has been going on, Clive Palmer has been in Perth.
He used is trip west to announce a High Court challenge to the Western Australia Senate vote. Palmer has previously flagged his party would mount a challenge.
Last week, the Australian Electoral Commission announced it would petition the court to have the Senate result voided.
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The carbon tax repeal bills have passed the House of Representatives.
It did not go to a vote but passed on the voices.
The bills are now off the Senate, where the Greens and Labor oppose the repeal (and have the numbers to do so).
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Operation Senate Call back
The Greens have announced they will try and recall the Commander of Operation Sovereign Borders, Angus Campbell, and the head of the Immigration Department, Martin Bowles, "after both consistently failed to answer questions during this week's Senate Estimates hearings".
The Immigration portfolio appeared on Tuesday.
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