Bill Shorten has launched a scathing attack on the Coalition, labelling the prime minister morally bankrupt and reliant on an insolvent senator.
The federal Labor leader addressed the Queensland ALP state conference on the Gold Coast on Saturday morning, before delegates went into debating issues ranging from an Indigenous treaty to privatisation.
Shorten said the Turnbull government was willing to risk more guns on the streets in exchange for Liberal Democrats senator David Leyonhjelms vote.
He also criticised the governments support for Family Firsts Bob Day continuing in the Senate, despite the founder of the collapsed Home Australia group saying his position was untenable while he was preoccupied with helping creditors.
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