From 35m ago 22.22 GMT Newspoll an ‘existential crisis’ for Liberals and 'we are now at irrelevance', Hume says Jane Hume has not minced her words this morning, and after telling Sky News this morning the Coalition needed a “reset”, she spoke to reporters in the press gallery and called this morning’s Newspoll an “existential crisis”. The Liberal senator and former frontbencher said there wouldn’t be a single Liberal elected to the House of Representatives if the poll results continued. Hume dances around the question of whether the reset means a leadership change in both parties, saying that’s a decision for both party rooms, “not just me”. We’re talking about a leadership contest between Sussan Ley and Andrew Hastie and Angus Taylor. None of them will have seats after the next election, if these polls continue, so something’s got to give. I’m not casting aspersions on any one particular leader or leadership aspirant, but at some stage we need to do something very, very different, because this is so much worse than it was just in May last year, when we had our worst election defeat in history … We are now at irrelevance. Liberal senator Jane Hume: ‘We need to do something very, very different.' Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP Share Updated at 22.37 GMT
2m ago 22.56 GMT 42% of students going hungry while on placement Independents Helen Haines, David Pocock, Sophie Scamps, Monique Ryan and Fatima Payman are pushing the government to end “placement poverty” for health workers doing their university degree placements. New survey data from the Health Students Alliance found 42% of health students are going hungry during placements. View image in fullscreen Independent Member for Indi Helen Haines speaks to the media at Parliament House, pushing for the government to end placement poverty. Photograph: Hilary Wardhaugh/Getty Images The Parliamentary Budget Office, commissioned by Haines and Pocock, costed the expansion
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