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Current Affairs: Four-year parliamentary terms?

Turnbull and Shorten will meet to discuss about extending the parliamentary terms to four years.
Turnbull and Shorten will meet to discuss about extending the parliamentary terms to four years. Source: AAP

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is to meet with Labor leader Bill Shorten this week following the opposition leader's call for fixed term elections. Mr Shorten says changing to a fixed four-year term would bring the commonwealth in line with most of the states and territories. Winmas Yu reports.


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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is to meet with Labor leader Bill Shorten this week following the opposition leader's call for fixed term elections. Mr Shorten says changing to a fixed four-year term would bring the commonwealth in line with most of the states and territories. Winmas Yu reports.



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