It may be only the middle of February but it feels like a year’s worth of news has already occupied the halls of parliament house in Canberra.

From the fires to the Coronavirus, sports rorts and Banaby Joyce’s thwarted comeback - there hasn’t been much space for long term agendas during the first parliamentary sitting period of 2020.

On this week's episode of Please Explain, David Crowe and Stephanie Peatling join Tory Maguire to dissect the first six weeks of 2020 for the Government and what it means for the year ahead.

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