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| Joe Hockey delivers his final speech to parliament – politics live | Joe Hockey delivers his final speech to parliament – politics live |
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| 10.43pm BST22:43 | |
| The government is expected to introduce the legislation giving effect to the families package at 9am in the House. | |
| 10.39pm BST22:39 | |
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| Nate Silver: | |
| If you’re being purely empirical — well, nobody quite like Trump has won a party nomination before, or even come all that close to it. So there’s some universe where his chances are 0 percent. | |
| 10.17pm BST22:17 | |
| Labor’s families spokeswoman Jenny Macklin has also been on AM about the families package. Macklin says the revised package is a significant backdown by the government, and that’s progress, but she maintains some “first read” concerns. The new package still hurts some current benefit recipients. | |
| We don’t believe in robbing one set of families to pay another. | |
| Macklin also picks up Morrison’s point that this benefits revamp is to pay for a new childcare package. Where is it? | |
| Where is their childcare package? They announced it in May, no-one has seen it. | |
| 10.12pm BST22:12 | |
| The treasurer Scott Morrison has been doing the rounds of breakfast TV and radio this morning. He’s just washed up in the AM studio. Host Michael Brissenden is pressing Morrison on the losers from the revised family payments deal. | |
| Morrison doesn’t want to talk about losers. He wants to talk about freeing up money to spend on childcare. | |
| The treasurer: | |
| What we are doing is ensuring the money we are spending on family benefits is better directed. | |
| Q: People expecting a bonus payment in July won’t be getting it? | |
| If a payment has outlived its purpose, why would we continue to spend money on it? | |
| Brissenden asks whether or not he has the votes to pass the package in its current form. Morrison says he’s working on it. He says everyone needs to strive to achieve the ‘new politics’ – oppositionism is the old politics that most of us have put behind. | |
| I’m sorry, I know the rule of contemporary politics is we are all supposed to exist credulously in some permanent present tense, but it’s going to take me quite awhile to adjust to Scott Morrison disavowing oppositionism. | |
| 10.02pm BST22:02 | 10.02pm BST22:02 |
| See you Joe: a pre-valedictory round-up | See you Joe: a pre-valedictory round-up |
| Shalailah Medhora | Shalailah Medhora |
| The government’s economic team has been out in force this morning, talking up the new changes to the financial system. They’ve also been talking up the contribution of their colleague, former treasurer Joe Hockey, who will give his valedictory speech today, around 11am. | The government’s economic team has been out in force this morning, talking up the new changes to the financial system. They’ve also been talking up the contribution of their colleague, former treasurer Joe Hockey, who will give his valedictory speech today, around 11am. |
| The finance minister, Mathias Cormann, who was snapped alongside the the treasurer smoking a cigar after the ill-received 214 budget, has called Hockey a “very good friend. It’ll be sad to see him say goodbye to the parliament,” Cormann told ABC Radio. “I wish him and his family all the best.” | The finance minister, Mathias Cormann, who was snapped alongside the the treasurer smoking a cigar after the ill-received 214 budget, has called Hockey a “very good friend. It’ll be sad to see him say goodbye to the parliament,” Cormann told ABC Radio. “I wish him and his family all the best.” |
| The small business minister, Kelly O’Dwyer, hailed Hockey’s “stellar” career. “Not many people get to have a 20 year career in this place, and he has,” O’Dwyer told Sky News. “I think he can walk out of this place with his held high,” she added. “I can’t speak highly enough of him.” | The small business minister, Kelly O’Dwyer, hailed Hockey’s “stellar” career. “Not many people get to have a 20 year career in this place, and he has,” O’Dwyer told Sky News. “I think he can walk out of this place with his held high,” she added. “I can’t speak highly enough of him.” |
| The man who took Hockey’s job in the revamped Turnbull ministry, Scott Morrison, has hit back at suggestions he stabbed Hockey in the back. “That is a ridiculous question and it is quite offensive actually,” he told Channel Nine’s Karl Stefanovic. Despite the acrimonious change in leadership, Morrison insists the two have a “professional” relationship. “There is no bitterness that goes on from these things. It is not Joe’s nature, it is not mine,” he said. | The man who took Hockey’s job in the revamped Turnbull ministry, Scott Morrison, has hit back at suggestions he stabbed Hockey in the back. “That is a ridiculous question and it is quite offensive actually,” he told Channel Nine’s Karl Stefanovic. Despite the acrimonious change in leadership, Morrison insists the two have a “professional” relationship. “There is no bitterness that goes on from these things. It is not Joe’s nature, it is not mine,” he said. |
| 9.55pm BST21:55 | 9.55pm BST21:55 |
| Welcome to Wednesday | Welcome to Wednesday |
| Good morning blogans, bloganistas, and welcome to wet Wednesday. I predict today in the people’s house will be brisk. | Good morning blogans, bloganistas, and welcome to wet Wednesday. I predict today in the people’s house will be brisk. |
| Mike Bowers was up early to catch up with the former treasurer Joe Hockey as he enjoyed a morning coffee in Manuka on his last day in the parliament. | Mike Bowers was up early to catch up with the former treasurer Joe Hockey as he enjoyed a morning coffee in Manuka on his last day in the parliament. |
| Hockey was gatecrashed not only by Mikearoo, but also a couple of Labor types – Ed Husic and Jason Clare. The member for north Sydney is a convivial sort. It doesn’t look like he minded. Hockey is expected to make his valedictory speech later on today, around 11am, and we strongly suspect his next destination will be Washington, replacing Kim Beazley, who will return to Australia after a very long stint in the United States. | Hockey was gatecrashed not only by Mikearoo, but also a couple of Labor types – Ed Husic and Jason Clare. The member for north Sydney is a convivial sort. It doesn’t look like he minded. Hockey is expected to make his valedictory speech later on today, around 11am, and we strongly suspect his next destination will be Washington, replacing Kim Beazley, who will return to Australia after a very long stint in the United States. |
| But Malcolm Farr from news.com.au says this morning don’t expect Tony Abbott to follow Hockey anytime in the near future. “Joe Hockey today waves goodbye to 19 years in Parliament, fellow Liberals are alerting each other: Don’t expect Tony Abbott to do the same any time soon. The former PM remains angry after four weeks on the backbench and has not shed a belief he can get his old job back from Malcolm Turnbull.” | But Malcolm Farr from news.com.au says this morning don’t expect Tony Abbott to follow Hockey anytime in the near future. “Joe Hockey today waves goodbye to 19 years in Parliament, fellow Liberals are alerting each other: Don’t expect Tony Abbott to do the same any time soon. The former PM remains angry after four weeks on the backbench and has not shed a belief he can get his old job back from Malcolm Turnbull.” |
| Just me sighing? No. Excellent. Onwards, upwards. | Just me sighing? No. Excellent. Onwards, upwards. |
| Fresh from releasing its response to the Murray report yesterday, Team Turnbull is powering on today with a new offer on family benefits reform. My colleague Lenore Taylor reports this morning that single parents and single income families will get lower government benefits when their youngest child turns 13 under a revamped families package that abandons many of the cuts proposed in the Abbott government’s 2014 budget in order to get some savings through the Senate. We expect various announcements today confirming that – and we’ll see what Labor and the cross bench has to say. There’s been horse trading at twenty paces in the red room over the past couple of weeks. | Fresh from releasing its response to the Murray report yesterday, Team Turnbull is powering on today with a new offer on family benefits reform. My colleague Lenore Taylor reports this morning that single parents and single income families will get lower government benefits when their youngest child turns 13 under a revamped families package that abandons many of the cuts proposed in the Abbott government’s 2014 budget in order to get some savings through the Senate. We expect various announcements today confirming that – and we’ll see what Labor and the cross bench has to say. There’s been horse trading at twenty paces in the red room over the past couple of weeks. |
| And there is the prospect of peace on another issue. I’m told that Labor MPs have been called to a special caucus meeting at 8am to “discuss and consider our response” to the China-Australia free trade agreement. That suggests the major parties are close to coming to terms on CHAFTA – caucus and various trade union folks willing. I’ll keep an eye on that over the course of the day. | And there is the prospect of peace on another issue. I’m told that Labor MPs have been called to a special caucus meeting at 8am to “discuss and consider our response” to the China-Australia free trade agreement. That suggests the major parties are close to coming to terms on CHAFTA – caucus and various trade union folks willing. I’ll keep an eye on that over the course of the day. |
| So chop chop, let’s get chatting. The comments thread is open for your business and I’m bright eyed and bushy tailed on the twits. Mikearoo has already consumed three double shot flat whites, so he’s good to go. You can find us there @murpharoo and @mpbowers | So chop chop, let’s get chatting. The comments thread is open for your business and I’m bright eyed and bushy tailed on the twits. Mikearoo has already consumed three double shot flat whites, so he’s good to go. You can find us there @murpharoo and @mpbowers |
| Salute the sun. Avoid child’s pose. Here comes Wednesday. | Salute the sun. Avoid child’s pose. Here comes Wednesday. |