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| Ricky Muir moves to disrupt the Senate program – politics live | Ricky Muir moves to disrupt the Senate program – politics live |
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| 9.48pm GMT | |
| 21:48 | |
| I should have mentioned in the quick summation of Richard Di Natale’s comments on Radio National that he wasn’t entirely definitive about whether the Greens would reject Ricky Muir’s motion this morning to bring on the ABCC vote. | |
| Yesterday Di Natale told the ABC the Greens wouldn’t assist efforts to disrupt the Senate program this week. This morning, he said the Greens party room would make that call this morning. | |
| 9.38pm GMT | |
| 21:38 | |
| Apart from the mayhem, I’m still recovering for the shock of the environment minister Greg Hunt declaring this morning we hit peak emissions in 2005-06. I strongly suspect we didn’t hit peak emissions in 2005-06. | |
| 9.36pm GMT | |
| 21:36 | |
| Never a man to shy away from chain saw juggling. | |
| 9.30pm GMT | |
| 21:30 | |
| Far too early to call my favourite picture of the day, but I’ll do it anyway. Why it’s hard to herd cross benchers, in a single frame. | |
| 9.24pm GMT | |
| 21:24 | |
| Yep, exactly. | |
| @murpharoo @mpbowers Morning ! pic.twitter.com/tNvkkqZONQ | |
| Thank you to Michael Halliday. | |
| 9.23pm GMT | |
| 21:23 | |
| It’s the usual Tuesday morning shock and awe before parliamentarians disappear into their partyrooms. On the ABC, the environment minister Greg Hunt has just declared Australia hit peak emissions in 2005-06 – meaning our emissions will never be higher than they were at that point. | |
| Greg Hunt: | |
| I believe we have reached peak emissions. In my best judgment ... we reached peak emissions in 2005-06. | |
| On another ABC radio outlet, the Greens leader Richard Di Natale says his party will make a decision at this morning’s partyroom meeting about whether or not it will support an effort by David Leyonhjelm to bring on a vote on the Greens same sex marriage bill. Di Natale is sounding like he doesn’t want to support the Leyonhjelm frolic – noting it would be a huge mistake to deploy marriage equality as a political tactic. ABC Radio National breakfast Fran Kelly isn’t sounding convinced about that. What if this is an opportunity to pass marriage equality in the Senate, Kelly wonders? It might be an opportunity to lose the vote, Di Natale counters. | |
| Labor’s deputy leader Tanya Plibersek is building up to the visit by the Iranian foreign minister. She’s told AM Australia’s foreign minister Julie Bishop needs to explain why she was once very cautious about engagement with Iran, but now is fully into it. Plibersek says if the main item on the agenda today is trying to negotiate an agreement to involuntarily return asylum seekers to Iran, then Australia needs to secure “very strong assurances” about safety. | |
| 9.03pm GMT | 9.03pm GMT |
| 21:03 | 21:03 |
| Just to cheer us all up, the Family First Senator Bob Day has observed down at the Senate doors that the government is juggling chainsaws on a double dissolution. | Just to cheer us all up, the Family First Senator Bob Day has observed down at the Senate doors that the government is juggling chainsaws on a double dissolution. |
| 8.57pm GMT | 8.57pm GMT |
| 20:57 | 20:57 |
| Good morning, assume the brace position | Good morning, assume the brace position |
| Hello everyone and welcome to Tuesday in Canberra. This week is supposed to be the last sitting week before the federal budget in May. Whether it is or not remains to be seen. | Hello everyone and welcome to Tuesday in Canberra. This week is supposed to be the last sitting week before the federal budget in May. Whether it is or not remains to be seen. |
| There’s only three sitting days scheduled this week but our predictive weather forecast is turbulence, especially in the red chamber. The government wants to extend the Senate sitting hours for today, Wednesday and Thursday. We anticipate a week of procedural ding dongs, ranging from a threat by Ricky Muir to bring on the government’s Australian Building and Construction Commission bill, to a same sex marriage stunt from David Leyonhjelm. I suspect Labor will also attempt to draw out the substantive legislative debate of the week – the debate on Senate voting reform – as long as possible. Just because. Mayhem, people, mayhem. | There’s only three sitting days scheduled this week but our predictive weather forecast is turbulence, especially in the red chamber. The government wants to extend the Senate sitting hours for today, Wednesday and Thursday. We anticipate a week of procedural ding dongs, ranging from a threat by Ricky Muir to bring on the government’s Australian Building and Construction Commission bill, to a same sex marriage stunt from David Leyonhjelm. I suspect Labor will also attempt to draw out the substantive legislative debate of the week – the debate on Senate voting reform – as long as possible. Just because. Mayhem, people, mayhem. |
| This morning, Muir told reporters he was hoping to give the government a chance to put their cards on the table when it came to the ABCC. | This morning, Muir told reporters he was hoping to give the government a chance to put their cards on the table when it came to the ABCC. |
| Ricky Muir: | Ricky Muir: |
| The government have tried to use the ABCC bill as a reason why electoral reform needs to happen so I’m giving them a chance to put their cards on the table and actually discuss this bill as they’re trying to say that the cross-bench is actually preventing that from happening. | The government have tried to use the ABCC bill as a reason why electoral reform needs to happen so I’m giving them a chance to put their cards on the table and actually discuss this bill as they’re trying to say that the cross-bench is actually preventing that from happening. |
| Thanks but no thanks Ricky. Finance minister Mathias Cormann has said this morning the government will revisit the ABCC bill on its own terms. | Thanks but no thanks Ricky. Finance minister Mathias Cormann has said this morning the government will revisit the ABCC bill on its own terms. |
| We will put the legislation to re-establish the Australian Building and Construction Commission to the Senate when we come back in May. | We will put the legislation to re-establish the Australian Building and Construction Commission to the Senate when we come back in May. |
| When in May remains, for now, moot. | When in May remains, for now, moot. |
| To put the week’s political dynamic most simply: the government will attempt to clear a path for a double dissolution election post budget, and Labor and the cross benchers will do everything possible to make the government’s path to the polls as messy and cluttered as possible. | To put the week’s political dynamic most simply: the government will attempt to clear a path for a double dissolution election post budget, and Labor and the cross benchers will do everything possible to make the government’s path to the polls as messy and cluttered as possible. |
| Arriving in Canberra for the sitting last night a couple of government backbenchers voiced their concerns about an early sprint to the polls. Victorian Liberal Russell Broadbent spoke up recently, telling the Herald Sun an extended double dissolution election campaign would be like an extended political suicide note. These sentiments were echoed by Queensland’s Ewen Jones, who told reporters at Canberra airport he’d never been in favour of an early poll or a double dissolution. | Arriving in Canberra for the sitting last night a couple of government backbenchers voiced their concerns about an early sprint to the polls. Victorian Liberal Russell Broadbent spoke up recently, telling the Herald Sun an extended double dissolution election campaign would be like an extended political suicide note. These sentiments were echoed by Queensland’s Ewen Jones, who told reporters at Canberra airport he’d never been in favour of an early poll or a double dissolution. |
| LNP Senator Ian Macdonald said the government risked sweeping out one lot of Senate recalcitrants and replacing them with another lot of “equally recalcitrant Senators.” I’m spitballing here, but I suspect Macdonald means the Greens more or less holding permanent balance of power in the upper house. Macdonald isn’t a bit fan of the Greens. | LNP Senator Ian Macdonald said the government risked sweeping out one lot of Senate recalcitrants and replacing them with another lot of “equally recalcitrant Senators.” I’m spitballing here, but I suspect Macdonald means the Greens more or less holding permanent balance of power in the upper house. Macdonald isn’t a bit fan of the Greens. |
| In addition to Senate mayhem, the Labor leader Bill Shorten is due to speak at the National Press Club today to set up the release of a report on inequality and disadvantage. The Iranian foreign minister is in town and the Indonesian trade minister is either in Canberra or on his way to Canberra. | In addition to Senate mayhem, the Labor leader Bill Shorten is due to speak at the National Press Club today to set up the release of a report on inequality and disadvantage. The Iranian foreign minister is in town and the Indonesian trade minister is either in Canberra or on his way to Canberra. |
| Today’s comments thread is wide open for your business. Magic Mike and I are up and at it on the twits, I’m @murpharoo and he’s @mpbowers You can also reach me at my new Facebook forum. Feel free to pitch in to the conversation there. | Today’s comments thread is wide open for your business. Magic Mike and I are up and at it on the twits, I’m @murpharoo and he’s @mpbowers You can also reach me at my new Facebook forum. Feel free to pitch in to the conversation there. |
| Pop on your crash helmet. Here comes Tuesday. | Pop on your crash helmet. Here comes Tuesday. |