'This is not about challenging the PM': Cory Bernardi leads 18C push

By James Massola
Updated August 31 2016 - 11:18am, first published August 30 2016 - 8:26pm
Senator Cory Bernardi has the backing of 20 senators for his proposed changes to Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Senator Cory Bernardi has the backing of 20 senators for his proposed changes to Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Conservative MPs have flexed their muscles on the first day of the new Parliament, with Liberal senator Cory Bernardi signing up every government backbench senator bar one to a motion that would re-write section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.

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