Layers added. Layers taken away.

Prime minister Tony Abbott has chomped into another onion on Thursday morning while his government struck a deal to pass sweeping new surveillance legislation.

Onions Australia

Mr Abbott met with Onions Australia at Parliament House this morning after creating a stir by biting into an unpeeled onion in Tasmania on the weekend.

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According to News Corp , it was a brown onion and Mr Abbott peeled a few bits of skin off before biting into it.

It was reportedly "tasty".

Meanwhile communications minister Malcolm Turnbull presented a revised surveillance deal struck with Labor that will see everyone's metadata collected for a period of two years.

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