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Asia | Politics in Australia

The prime minister feels the heat after his hand-picked speaker quits

Mrs Bishop lives by the sword

AUSTRALIA’S Parliament is about to reconvene with a prominent officeholder gone. On August 2nd the speaker of the lower house, Bronwyn Bishop, resigned over revelations that she had spent taxpayers’ money on helicopters, aircraft and limousines. “Choppergate” has roiled the conservative government and raised fresh questions about the judgment of Tony Abbott, the prime minister.

This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Choppergate”

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