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Rubbing along?

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Labor MPs have learned from what happened under Rudd and Gillard…. You only have to look at the way Bill Shorten and Anthony Albanese have managed to rub along – despite a close run competition for the top Labor job and its ambiguous outcome. And if you can discount her bid for a binding vote on same-sex marriage – announced when Shorten was out of the country – Labor's right faction leader and left faction deputy leader Tanya Plibersek are presenting a united front.

Watch the Labor MPs in question time and they look like a team: heckling together, laughing together, being kicked out together.

- Why it’s time for Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard to go to the Shush House, by Judith Ireland, SMH.com.au, June 5, 2015.

3. British lawmakers on Monday will debate whether to withdraw President Donald Trump’s invitation for a state visit - an offer extended with unprecedented speed.

The debate, to be held in Parliament’s Westminster Hall, was triggered after a petition calling on the British government to cancel the state visit amassed more than 1.8 million signatures. A counter-petition urging the government to back the visit, signed by 300,000, will also be debated.

Although many of Europe’s leaders were unenthusiastic about Trump’s election victory, British Prime Minister Theresa May has sought to curry favor with the new U.S. president. May was the first foreign leader to meet with Trump at the White House, and she wasted little time in offering him the royal treatment in the form of a full state visit, at a date to be determined.