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| Malcolm Turnbull to present the Closing the Gap report – politics live | Malcolm Turnbull to present the Closing the Gap report – politics live |
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| 9.42pm GMT | |
| 21:42 | |
| Parkinson, to the assembled rats, contemplating their drain pipe. | |
| Martin Parkinson to press waiting to ask him questions on inquiry into Stuart Robert: you need something better to do, guys" @murpharoo | |
| 9.41pm GMT | |
| 21:41 | |
| Here’s Martin Parkinson, the man of the hour, watching on. Parkinson has only just landed in the job. Lucky he’s used to hardship posts. | |
| 9.39pm GMT | |
| 21:39 | |
| Bill Shorten has also made his contribution to the breakfast. It was a good speech. He observed we have to resist the conservative cliche that life in Indigenous communities would be better if people would just pull themselves up by the bootstraps. You can’t pull yourself up if you don’t have the boots. | |
| 9.35pm GMT | |
| 21:35 | |
| Malcolm Turnbull is warming up his themes for his closing the gap speech to parliament later today. Here’s a couple of chunks that will give you some key points. | |
| Progress is mixed: | |
| Under successive governments of both sides,progress across the closing the gap’s target has been mixed. We have to be honest and recognise that reality. But I do believe we have witnessed true commitment and collaboration and we’re seeing positive trends as a result. Our investments in parenting, in early childhood education, in maternal and child programs has supported a positive start to life which is an investment in that child’s future. Indigenous infant mortality rates have more than halved over the past 16 years. Immunisation rates for indigenous children are high and by the age of 5 more indigenous children are immunised compared with the overall Australian population. | |
| Working in partnership: | |
| The message I’ve heard most consistently from Aborigina land Torres Strait Islander people is their design to work in partnership with government in a relationship based on mutual respect. And we must never forget that the success of Australia, the success of ours, the most successful multicultural society in the world is based on mutual respect. That is the glue. Thatis the absolutely essential element that holds us together and provides us with the ability to do better and better in the years ahead. And so we need to listen to and draw on the wisdom, the ingenuity, the insights of indigenous people across the nation from the cities to remote communities. | |
| Tally ho chaps, we’ve all got to roll up our sleeves: | |
| Today I want to reaffirm my government’s commitment to closing the gap. Everyone must play their part in this. Strong partnerships between governments and indigenous Australians are absolutely essential for the achievement of this goal. Now, I know that many of you have dedicated your life to the service of your communities, to your families, to creating a life for your children that is filled with hope and optimism. I want to thank you all for your ongoing commitment to ensuring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people can share equally in the opportunities of this great country. We have a great future together, a great task ahead of us – with commitment, with love, with mutual respect, with an optimism and a confidence and our ability to overcome all these challenges, we will get there. Aunty Matilda: the little koala, and even some of the big ones, will get there. | |
| 9.26pm GMT | |
| 21:26 | |
| Great pictures rolling in now from Mike Bowers, who is downstairs at a closing the gap breakfast. The prime minister is speaking at that now. I’ll bring you that shortly. | |
| I gather Turnbull’s departmental head, Martin Parkinson, is also downstairs. Given he’s the man inquiring into whether or not Stuart Robert has breached the ministerial code, I imagine reporters will be on to him like a rat up a drain pipe. | |
| 9.14pm GMT | 9.14pm GMT |
| 21:14 | 21:14 |
| Sorry I won’t quite yet. Just one more post for readers who for some strange reason have never heard of the World Government Summit. A description from the website. | Sorry I won’t quite yet. Just one more post for readers who for some strange reason have never heard of the World Government Summit. A description from the website. |
| The World Government Summit is the primary global forum dedicated to shaping the future of government worldwide. Each year, the Summit sets the agenda for the next generation of governments with a focus on how they can harness innovation and technology to solve universal challenges facing humanity. | The World Government Summit is the primary global forum dedicated to shaping the future of government worldwide. Each year, the Summit sets the agenda for the next generation of governments with a focus on how they can harness innovation and technology to solve universal challenges facing humanity. |
| The World Government Summit is a knowledge exchange platform at the intersection between government, futurism, technology and innovation. It functions as a thought leadership platform and networking hub for policymakers, experts and pioneers in human development. | The World Government Summit is a knowledge exchange platform at the intersection between government, futurism, technology and innovation. It functions as a thought leadership platform and networking hub for policymakers, experts and pioneers in human development. |
| The Summit is a gateway to the Future as it functions as an analysis platform for the future trends, issues and opportunities facing humanity. It is also an opportunity to showcase innovations, best practice and smart solutions to inspire creativity to tackle these future challenges. | The Summit is a gateway to the Future as it functions as an analysis platform for the future trends, issues and opportunities facing humanity. It is also an opportunity to showcase innovations, best practice and smart solutions to inspire creativity to tackle these future challenges. |
| I’m sure Maurice Newman will be on to this mob like a rat up a drain pipe. | I’m sure Maurice Newman will be on to this mob like a rat up a drain pipe. |
| 9.09pm GMT | 9.09pm GMT |
| 21:09 | 21:09 |
| “if the weather changes when I fly to the other side if the world is that climate change?” pic.twitter.com/pxKfYdOwQF | “if the weather changes when I fly to the other side if the world is that climate change?” pic.twitter.com/pxKfYdOwQF |
| Sorry, I will move on now. | Sorry, I will move on now. |
| 9.08pm GMT | 9.08pm GMT |
| 21:08 | 21:08 |
| Some people are just rude. | Some people are just rude. |
| TFW a man is handing you a certificate while you are busy trying to work out why it’s summer at home and winter here pic.twitter.com/qxRAttzkOt | TFW a man is handing you a certificate while you are busy trying to work out why it’s summer at home and winter here pic.twitter.com/qxRAttzkOt |
| Not me, though. | Not me, though. |
| 9.03pm GMT | 9.03pm GMT |
| 21:03 | 21:03 |
| Good morning everyone and welcome. I’m at that point in the week when I have to pause to think what day it is. After a brief period of reflection I can report it is Wednesday, in Canberra. Part of my mild disorientation is associated with not knowing quite where to start with this morning’s embarrassment of riches. | Good morning everyone and welcome. I’m at that point in the week when I have to pause to think what day it is. After a brief period of reflection I can report it is Wednesday, in Canberra. Part of my mild disorientation is associated with not knowing quite where to start with this morning’s embarrassment of riches. |
| Overnight, we have learned the environment minister Greg Hunt is the best minister in the world according to the somewhat sinister sounding World Government Summit – which I strongly suspect enjoys the honour of being the only organisation to actually endorse the government’s climate policy. Yay Greg! Yay World Government Summit! | Overnight, we have learned the environment minister Greg Hunt is the best minister in the world according to the somewhat sinister sounding World Government Summit – which I strongly suspect enjoys the honour of being the only organisation to actually endorse the government’s climate policy. Yay Greg! Yay World Government Summit! |
| Courtesy of a high level of attentiveness around the travel arrangements of the human services minister, Stuart Robert, we have also learned that a Chinese billionaire gave Tony Abbott, his chief of staff Peta Credlin, the then opposition industry spokesman Ian Macfarlane, and the then opposition spokesman for defence, science, technology and personnel, Stuart Robert, rolexes worth around $40,000 a pop. We have also learned that Macfarlane thought it was a fake, until he discovered, to his horror, it wasn’t. An order went out that the watches needed to be handed in. | |
| On the contemporary Stuart Robert imbroglio we learned yesterday, courtesy of my colleague Daniel Hurst, the minister had an official taxpayer funded trip to Singapore around the same time as his holiday sojourn in Beijing witnessing a commercial contract for a mining mate and Liberal party donor, Paul Marks. We learn this morning, courtesy of Sarah Martin in The Australian, that Robert charged taxpayers $900 in flights and travel allowance while on the way to a private trip to China, including an airfare to Sydney for what he claims was “official business”. Overnight, the Labor leader Bill Shorten has pushed the nuclear button on Robert. “It’s time for Malcolm Turnbull to show the leadership he promised and sack Stuart Robert,” Shorten said. | On the contemporary Stuart Robert imbroglio we learned yesterday, courtesy of my colleague Daniel Hurst, the minister had an official taxpayer funded trip to Singapore around the same time as his holiday sojourn in Beijing witnessing a commercial contract for a mining mate and Liberal party donor, Paul Marks. We learn this morning, courtesy of Sarah Martin in The Australian, that Robert charged taxpayers $900 in flights and travel allowance while on the way to a private trip to China, including an airfare to Sydney for what he claims was “official business”. Overnight, the Labor leader Bill Shorten has pushed the nuclear button on Robert. “It’s time for Malcolm Turnbull to show the leadership he promised and sack Stuart Robert,” Shorten said. |
| And accompanying the pursuit if Robert, coming up this morning, the government will introduce legislation allowing the medicinal use of cannabis – and Malcolm Turnbull will have the opportunity to set some directions on Indigenous policy when he delivers the closing the gap report around mid morning. | And accompanying the pursuit if Robert, coming up this morning, the government will introduce legislation allowing the medicinal use of cannabis – and Malcolm Turnbull will have the opportunity to set some directions on Indigenous policy when he delivers the closing the gap report around mid morning. |
| So lets gallop onwards, with our nostrils flaring and the wind in our manes. The comments thread is open for your business. You can also get in touch with either me or Magic Mikearoo on the twits. I’m @murpharoo and he’s @mpbowers | So lets gallop onwards, with our nostrils flaring and the wind in our manes. The comments thread is open for your business. You can also get in touch with either me or Magic Mikearoo on the twits. I’m @murpharoo and he’s @mpbowers |
| Yo ho, let’s go. | Yo ho, let’s go. |
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| at 9.21pm GMT |