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At a press conference in Adelaide the Labor leader, Bill Shorten, has weighed in on the same-sex marriage bill debate in parliament and the alleged hacking of Christopher Pyne’s Twitter account at 2am when it “liked” a porn video.

Asked about moves in the Coalition for greater protection of “conscientious objection”, Shorten says that Labor will “look at the religious beliefs of celebrants” to make sure that a marriage bill has “no unintended consequences for them”.

He says Labor will adopt a “commonsense” approach to amendments but the cross-party bill written by Dean Smith “pretty much gets us there” in terms of what is needed to legislate marriage equality.

On Pyne, Shorten said:



I feel for Christopher Pyne. But I think when any minister has their account hacked, but in particular when [it’s] the defence minister, this is serious. So I do think there should be some investigation and explanation. We want to make sure that important military and defence information can’t be hacked.

To be clear, the alleged hacking was of his Twitter account. Not the best platform for keeping national secrets at the best of times, I would’ve thought.