Politics latest: Labor backs Whyalla move, 'considering' China's Darwin Port lease
The Albanese government has backed SA Premier Peter Malinauskas forcing the Whyalla steelworks into administration, as Richard Marles says Labor is 'considering' the issue of China's 99-year lease of the Darwin Port.
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