Michelle Grattan speaks with University of Canberra’s Vice-chancellor Deep Saini about the week in politics. They discuss the conundrum Labor faces with the super Saturday by-elections set for the same weekend as their national conference, Pauline Hanson withdrawing One Nation’s support for the big company tax cuts, and what Andrew Hastie’s parliamentary speech about Chau Chak Wing means for Australia’s relations with China.

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