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As we head off for a wheatgrass shot, what have we learned from this parliamentary day?
The latest on the AEC comes ahead of a parliamentary hearing tomorrow.
The Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters will continue its investigation into the lost WA ballot papers.
It will take evidence from Mick Keelty for an hour in the morning.
A hearing with acting Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers is planned for next week.
This talk has come just in time.
The AEC has also just released a statement announcing it will make a payment of $2,000 each to 44 candidates endorsed by political parties who stood for the West Australian Senate last September.
"Defective administration resulted in the need to hold a new WA half Senate election," the AEC says.
(Eighteen other candidates have already had their money refunded as they had achieved 4 per cent or more of first preference votes.)
In an exclusive story from Jonathan Swan, we learn that the Australian Electoral Commission faces two more audits after the bungled WA Senate vote.
There has already been one investigation by former AFP commissioner Mick Keelty.
But there will be one further audit examining the "transport and storage" of ballot papers last year.
And that's gotta to be worth a wink.
Not me.
I'm the shadow parliamentary secretary for Western Australia.
Who the hey is 'Madam Seeker'?
Trust me, Cory.
I find your views about families just as weird as you find mine.
There's this French word I know that is really appropriate right now.