Andy Murray fans spark gun scare in UK

Police arrested four men suspected of brandishing a gun at Andy Murray but was a tennis racquet. Source: AAP

POLICE arrested four men suspected of brandishing a gun at tennis star Andy Murray - but later realised they were autograph hunters with a tennis racquet.

The mix up occurred in north London on Wednesday night when the Scot was in a car with his agent.

It is understood that two men got out of another car and knocked on the window of Murray's vehicle in an attempt to get him to sign a racquet, but the Wimbledon champion drove away.

Things went from bad to worse for the men as a member of the public thought one of them was carrying a gun and contacted police.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said they received a call at 1700 on Wednesday (0400 AEDT Thursday) to report a sighting of a man with a firearm in a Mercedes car in Avenue Road, Swiss Cottage.

The car was stopped in Tadema Road in Chelsea, west London and four men - aged 21, 26, 27 and 31 - were arrested on suspicion of possessing a firearm and taken into custody.

'More than 100 dead in typhoon'

A CIVIL aviation official in the Philippines says he's received a report that more than 100 bodies are lying in the streets of a central city ravaged by Haiyan.

Australia ends boat people stand-off

THE Federal Government said today it has taken a boatload of asylum-seekers at the centre of a high-seas stand-off with Indonesia.

They were later bailed until late January pending further inquiries.

"A search of the car was conducted and no trace of a firearm was found," the spokesman added.

Murray is currently recovering from back surgery.

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PM defends boat policy despite backdown

AUSTRALIA'S backdown from a stalemate with Indonesia over the turn-around of an asylum seeker boat signals a crack in the government's border protection policy, critics say.

But Prime Minister Tony Abbott insists the coalition's plan to stop the boats is working despite there being setbacks.

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison on Saturday ordered an end to a stand-off lasting more than 24 hours, where a suspected asylum seeker boat carrying more than 50 people had been intercepted by Australian authorities off the coast of Java.

Indonesia refused requests for the passengers to be taken ashore, leaving the boat people in limbo at sea under the watch of the Australian navy.

"In the best interests of the safety of the passengers and crew ... earlier this morning I requested (the) transfer (of) the persons rescued to Christmas Island," Mr Morrison said in a statement on Saturday.

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Australia ends boat people stand-off

THE Federal Government said today it has taken a boatload of asylum-seekers at the centre of a high-seas stand-off with Indonesia.

Australian authorities had responded on Thursday to a distress call from the wooden boat which was subsequently located in Indonesia's search and rescue zone.

"On two recent occasions, Indonesia has agreed to these requests and facilitated an on water transfer," Mr Morrison said of the turn back attempt.

But in the latest case, Indonesia said they would "review" the situation.

"What is absolutely clear from the events of today is that the boats are not being turned back, indeed the boats are coming to Christmas Island," opposition immigration spokesman Richard Marles said.

"The border protection policy which Tony Abbott took to the election is in tatters."

But the prime minister defended his government's approach.

"We said that we'd stop the boats, and while they have not yet stopped, they are slowing and they are stopping," Mr Abbott told reporters on Saturday.

"We will have setbacks and we will have disappointments, but we will succeed."

The prime minister refused to comment on "operational matters" relating to the latest boat interception but Mr Morrison confirmed that all passengers had been accounted for and would be taken to detention centres at Manus Island or Nauru after initial processing at Christmas Island.

The Australian Greens have called on the government to end its secrecy over border security operations, outlining plans to move a motion in parliament next week compelling the government to release details.

"Mr Abbott's excuses for secrecy are wearing thin and the Greens will use the powers of the Parliament to reinforce transparency," the minor party's immigration spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young said.

"The Coalition's turnaround policy is in tatters and it is time that Mr Abbott admitted that he had it wrong from the start."

Reports from Indonesia say there were some 63 people on the latest asylum seeker boat.

An Indonesia government spokesman said Jakarta was reluctant to accept the passengers because the boat was in working order when detected and the asylum seekers were not in danger.

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Indonesia issues warning on asylum seekers

INDONESIA has warned Australia not to expect to continue to offload asylum seekers on its shores following a mid-ocean stand-off in waters off the coast of Java.

Negotiations between Indonesian and Australian authorities were continuing on Friday in a bid to resolve the impasse more than 24 hours after the boat carrying more than 50 asylum seekers first issued a distress call as it made its way to Christmas Island.

There have been reports from Indonesian officials that as many as 63 people had been transferred from their boat to the Australian Customs vessel, the Ocean Protector, on Friday.

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison, at his weekly briefing on Friday, denied there was a stand-off between Indonesian and Australian authorities.

"What's important is the people who are the subject of our assistance are all accounted for," Mr Morrison said.

He said he wasn't in the business of offering "micro details" on military matters.

The commander of Operation Sovereign Borders, Lieutenant General Angus Campbell, also refused to provide details about the stand-off.

"I will not comment further in relation to on-water matters," Lieutenant General Campbell said three times, after reporters repeatedly questioned him on the matter.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott defended the government's reluctance to offer details of operations at sea, saying the important thing was to stop the boats.

"The best way to stop the boats is to ensure ... we are not providing a shipping news service for people smugglers," he told reporters in Melbourne.

But Indonesian officials on Friday morning were continuing to resist appeals from Australian authorities to offload the asylum seekers at a port in Java.

A spokesman for Djoko Suyanto, the Indonesian co-ordinating minister for Legal, Political and Security Affairs, said Jakarta was reluctant to accept them because the boat had been in working order when first approached by the Australian navy vessel HMAS Ballarat.

"From what I've been told, the boat was fine and they were not in danger. If that's the case, then we reject it," Agus Barnas told AAP on Friday.

"We don't want Indonesia to be a dumping ground, but we don't want Australia to accuse us of not doing anything. We want to respect Australia.

"At least for the time being we will not accept them."

The fact that Mr Djoko's office was so heavily involved, instead of the national search and rescue agency BASARNAS, also suggests Indonesia was treating the matter as more than simply operational, and that political considerations were playing a part.

The stand-off comes amid rising tensions between Canberra and Jakarta over the spying row that has threatened to derail cooperation in various areas, including people smuggling.

Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa warned earlier this week that "the agreement to exchange information, exchange even intelligence information, in fact, to address the issue of people smuggling" would be reviewed in the wake of the spying allegations.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Friday attempted to play down suggestions of a rift in relations between Jakarta and Canberra, but also refused to provide details of the unfolding drama off Java.

Shadow Immigration and Border Minister Richard Marles said Australians were finding out more about boats from the Indonesian government than Mr Morrison.

The boat had been bound for Australia when it issued a distress call at about 5.30am on Thursday morning.

Lt Gen Campbell confirmed the vessel first called for help about 43 nautical miles south of Java inside Indonesia's search and rescue zone.

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Five fewer missing WA Senate votes: AEC

THE prospect of a fresh Senate election in Western Australia is stronger than ever, an election expert says

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) on Friday released details of the preferences on 1370 missing votes, which are the subject of an investigation by former federal police commissioner Mick Keelty.

The WA Senate result, as it currently stands, gives the Liberals three spots, Labor one, the Australian Greens one and the Australian Sports Party (ASP) one.

But ABC election analyst Antony Green said based on his calculations of the newly released preference data, the Palmer United Party (PUP) would win a seat and Labor would pick up a second seat.

The Greens and ASP would miss out.

Mr Green said the margin of the win would be one vote - the closest result in the history of Senate elections.

"This is so close that even if the votes were not missing, the result would go to the Court of Disputed Returns to adjudicate," Mr Green said on his blog.

"With votes being missing and modelling indicating the result is so close, the chances of the court overturning the result and calling a fresh election are even higher than before."

The AEC, Labor and PUP are now considering whether to petition the Court of Dispute Returns.

Mr Keelty will visit Perth on Monday to start gathering evidence and interviewing witnesses.

The investigation is expected to take two weeks.

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DNA casts doubt on knife in Knox case

Expert testimony has again cast doubt on whether a knife was the murder weapon used by Amanda Knox. Source: AAP

A NEW DNA test on a kitchen knife failed to conclusively prove that it was the murder weapon used by US student Amanda Knox and her boyfriend to kill her British roommate.

An expert witness testified on Wednesday that the minuscule DNA trace on the knife handle near the blade showed "considerable affinity" with Knox's own DNA.

That confirmed what was already known from two previous trials: that Knox's DNA was on the knife handle, identified through another trace.

No DNA belonging to the slain British student, Meredith Kercher, or Knox's boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito was identified. Previous genetic evidence on the blade linked to Kercher had been contested at earlier stages.

Outside the court, Knox defence lawyer Carlo Dalla Vedova said the testimony confirms his contention that the knife was used by Knox solely for preparing food.

"The report confirms that this is a kitchen knife. It is not a murder weapon," Dalla Vedova said.

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Luca Maori, a defence lawyer for Sollecito, said the trace's very existence also indicated the knife had not been washed.

"It is something very important," he said. "It is absurd to use it for a murder and put it back in the drawer."

Prosecutors deferred comment for their summations, which are due later this month.

Knox and Sollecito were convicted in 2009 in the brutal slaying of Knox's 21-year-old roommate in the apartment they shared in Perugia, and sentenced to 26 and 25 years in jail, respectively.

The conviction was overturned on appeal in 2011, freeing the pair after four years in jail.

Italy's highest court ordered a fresh appeals trial, blasting the acquittal as full of contradictions and questioning failures to retest the tiny DNA trace in light of new advanced technology.

The DNA evidence on the knife found by investigators in a kitchen drawer at Sollecito's apartment has been among the most hotly contested pieces of evidence in the original trial and now in two appeals.

Prosecutors have contended the knife was the murder weapon because it matched Kercher's wounds, and presented evidence in the first trial that it contained Kercher's DNA on the blade and Knox's on the handle.

But a court-ordered review during the first appeal in Perugia, where the murder happened, discredited the DNA evidence. It said there were glaring errors in evidence collecting, and that below-standard testing and possible contamination raised doubts over the DNA traces linked to Kercher on the blade, as well as Sollecito's DNA on Kercher's bra clasp.

Sollecito, in an emotional 20-minute-long address to the court on Wednesday, said Knox was "my first real love in my life, even if it was very late".

He acknowledged he hadn't taken seriously enough the accusations at the beginning because he was too caught up with his new romance with Knox to grasp the severity of the situation.

He said he has since been living a nightmare, and he struggled with his composure as he pleaded with the court to acquit him. "I hope I'll have the chance to live a life, a life, because at the moment I don't have a real life," Sollecito said. "That's what I'm asking you."

Prosecutors begin their summations later this month, followed by the defence in December.

A verdict is expected in January.

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NZ police probed over teen sex probe

NEW Zealand's police commissioner says the force will act on a watchdog's findings into how officers handled an investigation into a group of teenage boys who boasted online about having sex with drunk and sometimes underage girls.

In an unprecedented move, Police Minister Anne Tolley has asked the Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) to investigate after revelations four complaints were made about the Roast Busters group between 2011 and 2012.

Police said earlier this week they couldn't lay charges against the Auckland teens because no complaints had been laid.

They appealed for "a brave girl" to come forward, and on Wednesday a 15-year-old said she laid a complaint in 2011 when she was 13.

She says she was asked about the clothing she was wearing at the time in a way that suggested police thought she had been "asking for it".

Tolley summoned Police Commissioner Peter Marshall to parliament for an urgent please-explain meeting on Thursday morning.

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Marshall said he assured Tolley that the best efforts had been made by the investigation team and complaints about sexual assaults were investigated thoroughly and professionally by police.

The referral of the case to the IPCA is "entirely appropriate given the level of public interest", he said.

Waitemata District Commander Superintendent Bill Searle will also be reviewing aspects of how the investigation was handled.

Marshall and Searle have apologised to the girl whose formal complaint was not publicly acknowledged by police.

"However, I am now satisfied that her complaint was very thoroughly investigated, but this case did not meet the evidential threshold required for prosecution," Marshall said.

Police welcomed any IPCA investigation and "will act on any learnings it may identify", he said.

Meanwhile, Assistant Police Commissioner Malcolm Burgess will be sent to Waitemata to review the policing district's processes after officers failed to tell their bosses about the complaint.

Top Auckland cop Detective Superintendent Andy Lovelock is also assessing the Roast Busters file to decide what steps police should take next.

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Former ACCC boss says sell Australia Post

THE federal government should sell Australia Post, a former head of the competition watchdog says.

Graeme Samuel, who chaired the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) from 2003 to 2011, told a business lunch that Australia's postage services don't belong in government hands.

"Why it is that we own Australia Post when you've got so many other providers, private providers of carriage of mail and services?" Professor Samuel said.

Professor Samuel also criticised opponents of US food giant Archer Daniels Midland's proposed $3.4 billion takeover of GrainCorp.

The government gives billions of dollars to foreign companies investing in the motor vehicle industry to support local jobs, but may also block a US company from owning a major grain industry business, he said.

The Nationals are opposed to the GrainCorp deal, and Treasurer Joe Hockey is due to make a decision on December 17.

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Govt job index falls for second month

THE federal government's leading employment index has fallen for two consecutive months after revisions, suggesting it is too early to expect sub-trend employment growth in coming months.

The leading jobs indicator anticipates movements in the growth cycle of employment, with a turning point confirmed after six consecutive monthly moves in the same direction.

The indicator of employment fell 0.011 index points in November to minus 0.153 points.

"It is too early to tell whether employment will continue to grow more slowly than its downwardly revised long-term trend rate of 1.2 per cent per annum over coming months," the Department of Employment said on Wednesday.

The index has four weighted components: ANZ Newspaper Job Advertisements, Dun and Bradstreet Employment Expectations, the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Leading Index of Economic Activity and the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Consumer Sentiment Index.

Official labour force data for October will be released on Thursday.

Economists expect the number of people employed to have grown by just 5000 in October compared to September, pushing the jobless rate up to 5.7 per cent after a surprise fall to 5.6 per cent in the previous month.

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Trial MS medicine changed my life: patient

An experimental new drug has improved the lives of those living with multiple sclerosis. Source: AAP

NOT long ago, Stephen Mudgway was in terrible pain and slept most of the day, his quality of life ruined by a dreadful form of multiple sclerosis (MS).

Now, thanks to an experimental new treatment, he has energy and is able to get out and about.

"I enjoy life," he says.

Just a few months ago, Mr Mudgway, who has secondary progressive MS, was so fatigued he slept more than 20 hours a day and took six different medicines, including 40mg of codeine on some days.

Now, apart from a weekly dose of the treatment, he pops only one pill a day.

He sleeps for a restful eight hours each night. He can do his buttons, pull up his zip, watch TV, read a book and transfer himself from his wheelchair to his bed.

He has regained the coordination needed to steer his electric wheelchair.

"I can hold a normal conversation and meet new people," he says in a 30-minute telephone interview from his New Zealand nursing home.

The treatment, MIS416, is developed by New Zealand company Innate Immunotherapeutics, which has moved its operations to Australia for placebo-controlled trials on 100 people.

Close to a year ago, Mr Mudgway took part in a small three-month trial, which involved having the bacteria-based medication pumped into his veins once a week.

He and most the other participants experienced rapid improvements to their quality of life.

But these ended when the trial stopped, says Mr Mudgway.

"I went back to how I was. Even worse," he says.

He then waited six months for permission to carry on treatment on compassionate grounds.

There are no approved therapies for secondary progressive MS, says Dr Matthew Miles, CEO of MS Research Australia.

"MS is a complex disease. But we are now convinced there is an auto-immune component. Particularly in the early stages."

The medicine pumped into Mr Mudgway's veins uses two types of bacteria to regulate his immune system and reduce inflammation in his nervous system.

"It gives the body an opportunity to rebalance and repair," says Dr Gillian Webster, who heads the development team.

"There are two layers of benefit. One is fairly immediate, which improves the patient's quality of life. The acute pain goes, the vision improves, muscle strength improves.

"There is also a definite delay in progression."

But it is highly unlikely Mr Mudgway will regain use of his legs, she says. It is not a cure.

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Ethical bar too high for ministers:Barnett

WA Premier Colin Barnett continues to defend his controversial treasurer, Troy Buswell (pic). Source: AAP

THE ethical bar for ministers may now be set too high, the West Australian premier says, after his controversial treasurer and transport minister, Troy Buswell, came under pressure for helping to get his son an appointment for a driving test.

It emerged on Monday Mr Buswell had tasked his office to ring the WA Department of Transport to arrange a driving test for his son.

They succeeded in getting an appointment in October 2012, on a day when no regular driving tests were scheduled in his hometown of Busselton, according to the public sector union.

Opposition transport spokesman Ken Travers said Mr Buswell's actions were a breach of the Ministerial Code of Conduct and he should be sacked.

But Colin Barnett said Mr Buswell's son had received no preferential treatment, and hit back at his minister's critics.

"The bar is too high now - any father, any mother is going to help out their kid to get a driving test," Mr Barnett told radio Nova 93.7.

"There was nothing improper or wrong.

"He's a dad, it's his son. Lots of people ring Troy's office to voice that frustration and Troy's office will ring through and make sure they get a response.

"Troy's son was treated no differently than anyone else."

Mr Buswell's office revealed figures showing his staff had contacted the Department of Transport 51 times last year on behalf of people struggling to book driving tests, including eight requests from Labor MPs and 19 from coalition members.

Mr Barnett said after his experience, Mr Buswell had also tried to ram home the issue to senior transport officials.

"Troy told me he has got some of the senior people from Transport, put them in the boardroom and told them to ring up and make an appointment for a driving test.

"An hour later, no response - so I think he made the point."

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Obeid's hidden interests 'deplorable'

Ex-NSW MP Michael Costa will give evidence at the ICAC as it continues an inquiry into Eddie Obeid. Source: AAP

EDDIE Obeid's failure to reveal secret family interests in lucrative harbourside businesses he lobbied ministers over is deplorable, former NSW treasurer Michael Costa has told a corruption inquiry.

Mr Costa on Monday told the Independent Commission Against Corruption that Obeid had subjected him to "low intensity lobbying".

The one-time Labor powerbroker had argued retail lease holders at Circular Quay were treated unfairly and the government had made unfulfilled promises, Mr Costa said.

The inquiry earlier heard Obeid's family owned a cafe and two restaurants at the quay, controlled through a company owned by a family trust.

Relative and associate John Aboud acted as the face of the company.

The Circular Quay leases, which earned the Obeids about $2.5 million annually, were due to go to public tender on expiry in 2005.

But the lessees were against this and engaged a lawyer and a property specialist.

Obeid also lobbied several ministers on their behalf, it's been alleged.

Mr Costa was ports minister from January to August in 2005 and was a member of Obeid's powerful Terrigal faction.

"(Obeid) told you that the people down at the quay were being treated unfairly - did he ask you to do anything specific about that?" counsel assisting the inquiry Ian Temby asked Mr Costa.

"He never asked me to do anything specific," he replied.

"I would describe this as, in terms of lobbying, low intensity."

Then he took a swipe at his former faction leader.

"If Eddie Obeid had leases or a financial interest in any leases at Circular Quay, he had an obligation, both a political and an ethical obligation, to advise anyone that he was lobbying," Mr Costa said.

"In addition there was a responsibility to have it on his pecuniary interests.

"Not doing that is, I think, deplorable."

Former senior bureaucrat Steve Dunn was questioned on Monday morning and denied Obeid made known his family's ownership of the enterprises.

"Anyone who was in that situation should have declared their interest," Mr Dunn said.

He acknowledged he had a "specific interest" in the leases after speaking to Obeid.

But he refuted Mr Temby's assertion this interest was because he was seeking to favour Obeid.

"These were matters which were of interest to Mr Obeid," he said.

"I do not believe I was doing anything for him that I would not have done for another person making similar representations."

Another former ports minister, Carl Scully, is due to give evidence on Tuesday.

The inquiry is expected to continue for two weeks.

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Egypt's Morsi arrives at court for trial

EGYPT'S deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi has arrived at a Cairo courthouse to face trial for inciting the death of protesters during his single year of turbulent rule, police say.

Morsi was flown in on Monday by helicopter to the police academy in east Cairo where the trial is being convened, and 14 defendants he is being tried with were also present, said Cairo security chief Osama al-Soghayar.

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Long wait ahead for WA voters

Deputy PM Warren Truss says any fresh Senate poll in WA should be held as soon as possible. Source: AAP

WEST Australians may have to wait until next year to find out if they have to return to the ballot box for a fresh Senate election, a constitutional expert warns.

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) announced on Saturday that Greens Senator Scott Ludlam and the Australian Sports Party's Wayne Dropulich had been elected to the Senate after a controversial partial recount in WA.

The announcement came as former Australian Federal Police commissioner Mick Keelty continued his investigation into 1375 missing votes.

Palmer United Party leader Clive Palmer immediately flagged a High Court challenge after his candidate Zhenya "Dio" Wang and Labor's Louise Pratt missed out, despite having been successful in the initial count.

Once the writs for the Senate election are returned to the WA governor early this week, there is a 40-day window for legal challenges to be lodged.

The High Court, sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns, would decide whether a new election should be held.

University of Queensland Law Professor Graeme Orr said it might be months before the court could consider the matter, although it might sit over Christmas if necessary.

"It would be too quick to (happen within) the 40 days because you have to get all the evidence together and (the full bench of) judges together," he told AAP.

Prof Orr said parties lodging a challenge had to supply a statement of claim outlining their evidence, which would take time to compile.

He pointed to the Queensland election in July 1995, in which a court challenge was lodged in August, before a decision came out in December ordering a by-election.

The by-election took place in February 1996.

Labor Deputy Leader Tanya Plibersek said Mr Kelty's investigation must be allowed to run its course, but did not rule out Labor pushing for a fresh poll.

"I think it's obviously very important Western Australians are confident that they got the senators they voted for," she told reporters in Sydney.

"But the question of how we can have that confidence is one for a few days' time when the investigation is complete."

She described the situation as a "very unfortunate incident", but said the AEC had a reputation for being the best and most reliable in the world.

Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said any new Senate election in WA should be held as soon as possible.

The situation of missing votes was a debacle.

"The whole event is a huge embarrassment for the Australian electoral system and we must make sure it doesn't happen again," Mr Truss said.

Senator Ludlam allowed himself a brief moment of celebration on being declared re-elected, but is not certain his victory will stick.

"We are really in uncharted territory," he said.

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Free vote on gay marriage likely:Turnbull

COMMUNICATIONS Minister Malcolm Turnbull believes the coalition is likely to grant MPs a conscience vote if a gay marriage private member's bill comes before federal parliament.

Mr Turnbull said on Saturday there was a mood in the coalition party room for a free vote on the issue.

"As to whether there would be a majority in favour of same-sex marriage in the House of Representatives and the Senate, I don't know," he told Network Ten.

He said he believed if the coalition had allowed a conscience vote when the issue was debated in the last parliament it would have made no difference to the outcome.

"There nonetheless would not have been the numbers to get it passed," Mr Turnbull said.

He reiterated his support for gay marriage.

Australian Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young flagged her party would re-introduce a private members bill on gay marriage when parliament resumes in a fortnight.

"This parliament can achieve marriage equality but it will take all sides working together to make it happen," she said in a statement.

She put the call out for politicians from other parties to co-sponsor the bill.

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