"When a Prime Minister cancels a parliamentary week for no apparently good reason, there is usually a very pressing concealed reason.
Try the very survival of the Turnbull government."
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/why-would-malcolm-turnbull-cancel-parliamen...
The SMH news article goes on to say:
"Should just a few extra dual citizens be revealed, the government wouldn't have the numbers to withstand a parliamentary assault from the opposition (assuming the opposition didn't also produce several dual citizens of its own).
The opposition could then win a vote of no confidence in the government....and the Prime Minister would have to visit the Governor-General and request an election be held forthwith.
But if the House's penultimate sitting was cancelled, leaving only one week before the end of the year, as Turnbull has now managed?
Why, the December 1 citizenship timetable wouldn't be agreed. It would be pushed out till 8pm on Tuesday, December 5, at the earliest. The opposition, thus, would have only two days before the end of the parliamentary year to try to bring down the government."
So, yet again we can't believe what the govt (Mr Turnbull) is saying as his stated reasons appear not to reflect reality. (that's a diplomatic way of saying 'He's lying'.
