Welcome back to your weekly federal politics update, where Brett Worthington gets you up to speed on the happenings from Parliament House.

Sussan Ley likes a letter — so much so she added an extra one to her name.

In a world in which we're constantly reminded not to put things in writing, the Coalition leader is showing little opposition to putting pen to paper.

And look, if Optus's recent record is anything to go by, the old snail mail is really rising in the ranks of reliable forms of communication (and yes of course she's not literally sending her letters in the post but you get the point).

It was only a week ago that Ley was taking the unorthodox approach of writing to Republican politicians to make clear she'd reverse Australia's recognition of Palestine.

Another week, another le

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