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Best Federal Politics photos of 2020
The bushfires that bore down on holidaying Australians and blanketed much of the east coast in smoke as the year began were not yet out before the coronavirus pandemic took hold. It has been for many, as Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese put it bluntly in Parliament, the year from hell.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison greets NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian ahead of a Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting held at Bankwest Stadium in Parramatta.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese and Julie-Ann Finney depart after a doorstop interview on veterans suicide, at Parliament House in Canberra..Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison, with fogged glasses from wearing a mask, during a visit to Datapod - a data centre facility in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon and Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce having a heated discussion after Fitzgibbon gatecrashed Joyce's doorstop interview in the press gallery, at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Chief Medical Officer Professor Brendan Murphy sanitise their hands before entering a National Cabinet meeting to discuss COVID-19 coronavirus, at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Senator Lidia Thorpe is sworn-in in the Senate, at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Christine Holgate, Group Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Australia Post, during a Senate estimates hearing at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Bob Katter MP buys $19,000 worth of gold off Edward Cummings during a press conference about the restriction on cash bill at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison tours the bushfire affected regions of the Blue Mountains including Bilpin (pictured), Dargan and the Grose Valley.Credit:Wolter Peeters
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Senator Richard Di Natale embraces his children Luca and Ben and his wife Lucy Quarterman after he addressed the media during a press conference to announce his resignation as leader of the Australian Greens, at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton addresses the media during a doorstop interview at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese wearing a Rabbitohs mask exits the press gallery at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Prime Minister Scott Morrison arrive for post-Budget day breakfast television interviews on the front lawn of Parliament House in Canberra. Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Treasurer Josh Frydenberg in his office ahead of this year's federal budget which is to handed down at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison wearing a mask departs the chamber at the end of Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Shadow NDIS Minister Bill Shorten and Prime Minister Scott Morrison during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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New Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe with a Message Stick memorialising the 441 First Nations people who have died in custody. Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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Senators Jacqui Lambie and Pauline Hanson during a division in the Senate at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese addresses the media during a doorstop interview at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen