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Janet Heard, Media24 parliamentary editor.
Janet Heard, Media24 parliamentary editor.

Expect the temperature to rise during the third term of the parliamentary year, which kicks off this week.

It has not been business as usual for honourable members from day one of the fifth Parliament. But now, more than three years later, the country is on a knife’s edge, with Parliament at the centre of the political and economic storm.

If MPs fulfil their constitutional duty to act in the interests of the people, they will take the work cut out for them very seriously.

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