Foreign veto laws: Labor warns of ‘unprecedented power’ and lack of oversight

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Labor has fired a warning shot to the Morrison government over its planned foreign veto laws, accusing the Coalition of trying to give unprecedented power" to the foreign affairs minister without adequate oversight.

In a toughening of the opposition's position on the proposed powers to scrap certain international agreements, Labor's Senate leader, Penny Wong, told Guardian Australia the government had rushed out the proposal to grab a headline" without planning for how the law would work in practice.