Why bother with hated, money-grabbing MPs at all? Angry senator invokes Hitler in new Gold Pass defence

By Adam Gartrell
Updated February 17 2017 - 12:08am, first published February 16 2017 - 9:48pm
Senator Ian Macdonald has attacked 'shock jocks and lazy journalists and sub-editors'. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Senator Ian Macdonald has attacked 'shock jocks and lazy journalists and sub-editors'. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

A Coalition senator has accused his own government of caving to "populist pressure" with its crackdown on parliamentary perks and blamed "shock jocks and dishonest journalists" for stoking unfair criticism of politicians.

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