Senior government sources have told Sky News if convicted, the MPs could be ineligible to sit in Parliament, meaning the Turnbull government would lose its majority.
Three Turnbull government ministers have eventually withdrawn comments they made about the Victorian judiciary’s decisions on terror sentencing, but they refuse to apologise.
The three men were called to appear at the Supreme Court in Melbourne to explain why they shouldn’t be charged with contempt over comments they made in a front page article in The Australian newspaper.
The court heard the ministers sent unsolicited emails to a reporter saying Victorian judges were out of touch with reality, ‘hard left activists’ and conducting ‘ideological experiments’
Source: Fears contempt case could bring down govt
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