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| Malcolm Turnbull says Julie Bishop has his '110% confidence' – as it happened | Malcolm Turnbull says Julie Bishop has his '110% confidence' – as it happened |
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| 5.47am GMT | 5.47am GMT |
| 05:47 | 05:47 |
| Night time politics | Night time politics |
| So I have to rush off to a First Dog gig so here is an early summary, at the end of quite a relentless sitting week. | So I have to rush off to a First Dog gig so here is an early summary, at the end of quite a relentless sitting week. |
| Tonight, we have: | Tonight, we have: |
| Thanks for your company and thanks to my brains trust: Shalailah Medhora, Daniel Hurst and Lenore Taylor. Mike Bowers did a grand job. We need to crowdfund some of those wheely shoes to get across all the jobs in the day. | Thanks for your company and thanks to my brains trust: Shalailah Medhora, Daniel Hurst and Lenore Taylor. Mike Bowers did a grand job. We need to crowdfund some of those wheely shoes to get across all the jobs in the day. |
| Now parliament is off for a week and then back on for two weeks, before closing for the year. Katharine Murphy is winging her way around the world as we speak, so keep an eye out for her Malcolm reports. They will be sterling. | Now parliament is off for a week and then back on for two weeks, before closing for the year. Katharine Murphy is winging her way around the world as we speak, so keep an eye out for her Malcolm reports. They will be sterling. |
| Good night. | Good night. |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 6.13am GMT | at 6.13am GMT |
| 4.46am GMT | 4.46am GMT |
| 04:46 | 04:46 |
| Not again? Musical chairs is LESS chairs than people @edhusicMP now try it again with some mates pic.twitter.com/d8zynrd9bi | Not again? Musical chairs is LESS chairs than people @edhusicMP now try it again with some mates pic.twitter.com/d8zynrd9bi |
| @lenoretaylor @gabriellechan @mpbowers new seating arrangements for those waiting 94a treatment (just missing David Jones food hall tix) | @lenoretaylor @gabriellechan @mpbowers new seating arrangements for those waiting 94a treatment (just missing David Jones food hall tix) |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 5.27am GMT | at 5.27am GMT |
| 4.44am GMT | 4.44am GMT |
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| The speaker will never know its you interjecting in that crowd @terrimbutler @gabriellechan pic.twitter.com/l4MvG5qzGJ | The speaker will never know its you interjecting in that crowd @terrimbutler @gabriellechan pic.twitter.com/l4MvG5qzGJ |
| 4.41am GMT | 4.41am GMT |
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| Senate inquiry into coal seam gas mining | Senate inquiry into coal seam gas mining |
| Glenn Lazarus has succeeding in getting a senate select inquiry into unconventional gas mining. | Glenn Lazarus has succeeding in getting a senate select inquiry into unconventional gas mining. |
| The committee consist of 6 senators: | The committee consist of 6 senators: |
| Lazarus says ultimately what is needed as a policy response is a veto for farmers if they do not want mining on their land. | Lazarus says ultimately what is needed as a policy response is a veto for farmers if they do not want mining on their land. |
| Asked whether such an inquiry would achieve anything, given past inquiries have led to know action, Lazarus: | Asked whether such an inquiry would achieve anything, given past inquiries have led to know action, Lazarus: |
| I’m confident that people will have a platform to be heard and provide evidence. Whether or not the mining and energy companies listen well, that’s up to them. I’ve got to try for these people. No-one’s listening to them. I’ve got to give them some hope that people will listen and act upon whatever evidence we find in this committee hearing. | I’m confident that people will have a platform to be heard and provide evidence. Whether or not the mining and energy companies listen well, that’s up to them. I’ve got to try for these people. No-one’s listening to them. I’ve got to give them some hope that people will listen and act upon whatever evidence we find in this committee hearing. |
| 4.27am GMT | 4.27am GMT |
| 04:27 | 04:27 |
| Malcolm Turnbull is up now in Indonesia. | Malcolm Turnbull is up now in Indonesia. |
| So trade, investment, economic growth, stronger economies in both Indonesia and Australia for the benefit of both sides is the focus of the discussions and next week we have Andrew Robb our trade minister leading a very large delegation of over 300 Australian business leaders to Indonesia in the Indonesia-Australia Business Week. | So trade, investment, economic growth, stronger economies in both Indonesia and Australia for the benefit of both sides is the focus of the discussions and next week we have Andrew Robb our trade minister leading a very large delegation of over 300 Australian business leaders to Indonesia in the Indonesia-Australia Business Week. |
| He is refusing to comment on the Julie Bishop story. | He is refusing to comment on the Julie Bishop story. |
| How can you trust her as deputy, Turnbull has been asked. | How can you trust her as deputy, Turnbull has been asked. |
| Julie Bishop is a dear friend. She’s an outstanding foreign minister, she’s been a long-standing and excellent deputy leader of the party, so she has my 110%confidence. | Julie Bishop is a dear friend. She’s an outstanding foreign minister, she’s been a long-standing and excellent deputy leader of the party, so she has my 110%confidence. |
| How many discussions did you have with her before the leadership spill before toppling Tony Abbott? | How many discussions did you have with her before the leadership spill before toppling Tony Abbott? |
| Politicians speak to each other all the time. That’s why you have Parliament. Bring people together and they talk and they talk about their political fortunes and they talk about policies and they talk about personalities. It’s no revelation to know that politicians are talking or that Julie and I are talking. We are as ministers, whether in Tony’s government or in my government or indeed in the Howard Government, we are always talking. That is what parliament is about. | Politicians speak to each other all the time. That’s why you have Parliament. Bring people together and they talk and they talk about their political fortunes and they talk about policies and they talk about personalities. It’s no revelation to know that politicians are talking or that Julie and I are talking. We are as ministers, whether in Tony’s government or in my government or indeed in the Howard Government, we are always talking. That is what parliament is about. |
| 4.22am GMT | 4.22am GMT |
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| They’re only human. | They’re only human. |
| Who says Parliament is boring? #auspol #qt @abcnews @ABCNews24 pic.twitter.com/x7t6MKikey | Who says Parliament is boring? #auspol #qt @abcnews @ABCNews24 pic.twitter.com/x7t6MKikey |
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| 4.13am GMT | 4.13am GMT |
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| Thursday afternoon early mark. | Thursday afternoon early mark. |
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| Chris Bowen is prosecuting a matter of public importance now: | Chris Bowen is prosecuting a matter of public importance now: |
| The Government’s plan to hit the household budgets of all Australians by jacking up the GST. | The Government’s plan to hit the household budgets of all Australians by jacking up the GST. |
| 4.11am GMT | 4.11am GMT |
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| Jenny Macklin to social services minister Christian Porter: Bronte works part-time and is asingle mother of three children in Mount Barker in SA. She says, “I’m really concerned about how my family will cope financially if the proposed family tax benefits cuts comeinto effect. We’re only just floating now.” How could the government possibly compensate Bronte for a 15% GST if it has just cut her family payments by $4,700? | Jenny Macklin to social services minister Christian Porter: Bronte works part-time and is asingle mother of three children in Mount Barker in SA. She says, “I’m really concerned about how my family will cope financially if the proposed family tax benefits cuts comeinto effect. We’re only just floating now.” How could the government possibly compensate Bronte for a 15% GST if it has just cut her family payments by $4,700? |
| Porter says the savings were being reinvested in a childcare package which would benefit 165,000 families. When you make spending cuts, there are always some people who have a better or worse capacity to make the transition, he says. Just like when Labor moved single mothers off their pension, he says. | Porter says the savings were being reinvested in a childcare package which would benefit 165,000 families. When you make spending cuts, there are always some people who have a better or worse capacity to make the transition, he says. Just like when Labor moved single mothers off their pension, he says. |
| Then a Dixer to Paul Fletcher: What action is the Coalition Government taking to reverse Labor’s inaction and pathetic uselessness and help my constituents in the Ascot exchange? | Then a Dixer to Paul Fletcher: What action is the Coalition Government taking to reverse Labor’s inaction and pathetic uselessness and help my constituents in the Ascot exchange? |
| That question was OK’ed by the Speaker and Fletcher answered. After time was called, Speaker Tony Smith said he had not heard the inflammatory bits of the question because there was too many interjections. | That question was OK’ed by the Speaker and Fletcher answered. After time was called, Speaker Tony Smith said he had not heard the inflammatory bits of the question because there was too many interjections. |
| That’s it. QT over, red rover. | That’s it. QT over, red rover. |
| 4.02am GMT | 4.02am GMT |
| 04:02 | 04:02 |
| Kevin 07. | Kevin 07. |
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| Where is the love? | Where is the love? |
| .@JulieBishopMP refused to look at @tanya_plibersek as she questioned her loyalty to previous Liberal leaders in #qt pic.twitter.com/CmpIDN3lix | .@JulieBishopMP refused to look at @tanya_plibersek as she questioned her loyalty to previous Liberal leaders in #qt pic.twitter.com/CmpIDN3lix |
| 3.59am GMT | 3.59am GMT |
| 03:59 | 03:59 |
| A constituency question! Goodie. | A constituency question! Goodie. |
| Teresa Gambaro to innovation minister Christopher Pyne: Craig Devson, CEO of Cloud Manager, has been a tireless advocate of innovation, working in the Brisbane technology start-up industry for many years. His business is just one of the many who’ve received a $500,000 grant as part of the Government’s accelerating commercialeration program. How do targeted programs like this benefit businesses like Cloud Manager in my electorate and in the broader community? | Teresa Gambaro to innovation minister Christopher Pyne: Craig Devson, CEO of Cloud Manager, has been a tireless advocate of innovation, working in the Brisbane technology start-up industry for many years. His business is just one of the many who’ve received a $500,000 grant as part of the Government’s accelerating commercialeration program. How do targeted programs like this benefit businesses like Cloud Manager in my electorate and in the broader community? |
| Christopher Pyne knows all about Cloud Manager. | Christopher Pyne knows all about Cloud Manager. |
| Cloud manager is a business that has brought together a number of different kinds of online services that another business can access in the one place, rather than having to find them all separately themselves. It increases profit, saves them money and time it is a very successful service and so the government is going to try and accelerate that particular innovative business through the entrepreneur’s program. | Cloud manager is a business that has brought together a number of different kinds of online services that another business can access in the one place, rather than having to find them all separately themselves. It increases profit, saves them money and time it is a very successful service and so the government is going to try and accelerate that particular innovative business through the entrepreneur’s program. |