Turnbull pulls plug on China treaty under pressure from Labor

By James Massola, Tom McIlroy, Fergus Hunter
Updated March 29 2017 - 11:53am, first published 11:49am

A Turnbull government plan to quietly ratify the China-Australia extradition treaty has collapsed, with mounting opposition from the Coalition backbench and Labor's decision to oppose the treaty causing the government to withdraw it from Parliament.

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