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| Republican Malcolm Turnbull to meet Prince Charles on dismissal anniversary – politics live | |
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| 10.05pm GMT22:05 | |
| The house has started sitting. | |
| Tony Burke, Labor’s manager of business, fires a shot across the bow regarding citizenship legislation. He notes the bill is on the program and suggests, given Labor is still scrutinising the bill - including getting briefings - he hopes the government will allow them time. | |
| Today, we will see if it really is a new paradigm. | |
| 10.02pm GMT22:02 | |
| Rosie Lewis at the Oz has an interesting insight into the change in approach since the dumping on Tony Abbott. | |
| Malcolm the Magnanimous has offered a special senate cross bench meeting room on the first floor of parliament house. Who knows what goes on in there? Bob Day probably gets out the guitar. Maybe Lambie kicks off her heels. Oh to be a fly on the wall. | |
| We’ve been given a meeting room on the Senate side with a very nice view — we’re delighted. We said, ‘Let’s invite the Prime Minister to come and have a chat’ and he didn’t hesitate, which was great. | |
| It’s definitely a milestone. It’s been a bit of a slog but I think in the last few weeks the reset button has been pressed and we start again. We’re off to a good start. | |
| 9.55pm GMT21:55 | |
| Hello Aus Senate tweeps. We love you too. | |
| The #Senate will suspend today from 10.15 until 11.45 am to allow senators to attend #RemembranceDay services | |
| 9.54pm GMT21:54 | |
| How business is done. | |
| There is going to be a whole lot of this today on the citizenship bill. This photo from yesterday by Lukas Coch of AAP shows the horse trading that goes on to get legislation through. | |
| 9.47pm GMT21:47 | |
| Dutton expects a High Court challenge to the dual nationals citizenship bill | |
| Notwithstanding the Remembrance Day memorial service, the government house business, the curtsying and chortling with the royals, there is some very serious business in the parliament. | |
| The citizenship amendment will come back to the house after the scrutiny of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS). That committee heard the finest legal minds criticise the proposed legislation, which sought to strip citizenship from dual nationals fighting for various offences. | |
| For example, constitutional lawyer Professor George Williams described the bill as “one of the most poorly drafted” he had seen. He wasn’t talking fiddles around the edges. | |
| The bill lists three ways dual nationals can automatically lose their Australian citizenship. First, a person renounces their citizenship “by conduct” if they engage in terrorist activity. Second, if they go overseas to fight for foreign armies deemed enemies of Australia, or listed terrorist organisations. Third, if they are convicted of terrorism offences or “certain other offences” by an Australian court. | |
| When the committee finally reported, it suggested the government should only strip dual nationals of citizenship for terrorist offences after a conviction. | |
| But it recommended going ahead with provisions which would strip dual nationals fighting overseas of their Australian citizenship without conviction. | |
| The committee also recommended retrospectively stripping Australian citizenship from those convicted of terrorist-related offences, though limiting it to those who had been sentenced to at least 10 years’ jail for those offences. | |
| So the bill has presumably been redrafted and Bill Shorten has told us this morning that Labor only received a briefing on the (new) bill last night. Labor wants more time to scrutinise the bill. | |
| As to constitutionality, Peter Dutton said he expected a high court challenge but the government had drafted it as well as it could. | |
| In these circumstances you would expect that there would be a High Court challenge in relation to some aspects of the bill or the legislation at some stage... From the government’s perspective, there is always a risk with any legislation, with any piece of national security legislation. We minimise that risk in this bill, and we believe we’ve struck a reasonable balance by accepting all the recommendations from the committee. | |
| The bill is listed for debate after question time, so we shall see what we shall see. Shorten said again, just this morning, that Labor delivered bipartisan support on national security issues and has done so for the first three . | |
| But he wants to be able to pick up any flaws in the bill and that needs time. | |
| Dutton is stamping his feet. He wants the bill ticked off by the next week. | |
| Debate will commence this week, and the government’s desire is that this bill be dealt with by both houses by the end of the next sitting week. | |
| 9.21pm GMT21:21 | 9.21pm GMT21:21 |
| Bill Shorten was only eight at the time of the dismissal but he has already declared his support for a republic in previous speeches. | Bill Shorten was only eight at the time of the dismissal but he has already declared his support for a republic in previous speeches. |
| Shorten would like to see a process which involves a constitutional convention, followed by a plebiscite to gauge the peoples’ reaction, followed by a referendum. | Shorten would like to see a process which involves a constitutional convention, followed by a plebiscite to gauge the peoples’ reaction, followed by a referendum. |
| He also told Fran Kelly that he would like to see a constitutional commission, which would be a permanent body which educates people about the constitution. | He also told Fran Kelly that he would like to see a constitutional commission, which would be a permanent body which educates people about the constitution. |
| 9.03pm GMT21:03 | 9.03pm GMT21:03 |
| Good morning | Good morning |
| Strap yourself in for huge day in Canberra. | Strap yourself in for huge day in Canberra. |
| Best get on with this. Join us below or on the Twits with me @gabriellechan and @mpbowers, who is on full royal duty. I’m thinking a visual panoply of delights from the Bowers machine. | Best get on with this. Join us below or on the Twits with me @gabriellechan and @mpbowers, who is on full royal duty. I’m thinking a visual panoply of delights from the Bowers machine. |