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| Malcolm Turnbull says superannuation backdown 'the right outcome' – question time live | |
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| Bob Katter asks Scott Morrison about pensioner incomes and whether there should be an increased tax on imports to pay more to pensioners. | |
| Morrison says, with great respect to the member, no. | |
| If you do that then what you are doing is you increase the costs to produce things in this country because our businesses make those imports. Now, if you’re going to increase the costs on business in this country, whether it’s by that measure or by increasing taxes, like those opposite want to do on business, then what you end up doing is costing incomes and jobs. | |
| Fun fact: That was a 45 second question from Katter. Crossbenchers get an extra 15 seconds under the rule changes which went through on Tuesday night. | |
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| Bowen to Turnbull: My question is for the prime minister. Can the prime minister confirm in June he was asked about superannuation and can you foresee any circumstance in which the policy is detailed following the election? The prime minister responded that it was absolutely ironclad. How can the prime minister claimed to lead a country when even his absolutely ironclad promises can’t survive the extreme elements of his own party? | |
| Turnbull is looking cocky now. He appears to be enjoying himself. | |
| My government took it out of that [hard] basket ... the opposition urged us to make changes, many others did too, we listened to them and made some changes. The honourable member says, I listened to George [Christensen]. He may as well have said I listen to him, he may as well say we listen to everyone, because we consult, we listen, we consult and then we make decisions based on the public interest. | |
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| Malcolm Turnbull gets a Dixer on national security. He foreshadows his upcoming trip to the US with meetings in New York with world leaders to discuss the security and humanitarian challenges posed by the uncontrolled movement of 65m people “who were forcibly displaced around the world, many from the Syrian conflict”. | |
| (The comments from Dutton in the earlier post regarding New Zealand may be a shot over the bow before this refugee meeting in New York.) | |
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| Plibersek to Turnbull: The PM was asked what was your greatest achievement since being PM and the PM responded the reforms in superannuation, the reforms in business tax. Today he’s junked both. What is the point of the Turnbull government if the PM can’t even deliver on his so-called greatest achievements? | |
| The acting opposition leader’s question underlined, demonstrated as if on cue the very point I just made ...[Labor] love to talk about fairness. The problem is they don’t practise what they preach. They did nothing about superannuation when they were in government. The only approach they have to equity is self-help. That is the Dastyari approach. | |
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| The government question to Malcolm Turnbull is on superannuation. It is a great outcome he says and then gives Labor a lecture. | |
| With a little less grandstanding, a little less name calling and a little bit more constructive negotiation, we can achieve great things for Australians and their future in this 45th parliament. | |
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| The first question from Tanya Plibersek to Malcolm Turnbull: why has the government not established a redress scheme for victims of institutional child sexual abuse? | |
| Turnbull says its complicated but we are working our way through it. Minister for social services is working with state governments “to ensure that redress is provided” and that is a “nationally consistent” approach. When Labor fires up, he gets indignant. | |
| I would say to the member opposite, there is no monopoly on empathy, we understand the problem. We are working through it sensitively with those affected, with the institutions and with governments to ensure that justice is done. | |
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| Question time coming up people. | |
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| A visual representation of Scott Morrison negotiating with his party room. | |
| @gabriellechan The Treasurer commended govt MPs for engaging in a respectful debate over changes to Superannuation. pic.twitter.com/OcIE0R1M06 | |
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| The ABC has reported comments from immigration minister Peter Dutton in an interview with al-Jazeera. Lest I verbal him, here they are: | |
| We have had people smugglers that have tried to send boats across the top of Australia to New Zealand before. Let me make this very important point that people – if they’ve sought to come by boat – it doesn’t matter where they’re resettled, New Zealand or somewhere else, they will not be coming to Australia at any point. | |
| This would appear to leave the way open to the option of resettling asylum seekers currently on Nauru. Previously, the government has characterised New Zealand as being too good a country. (My words.) Or rather, a back door way of getting into Australia as Peter Dutton said earlier this year. | |
| Is a deal looming? We are checking. | |
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| Lunchtime politics | Lunchtime politics |
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| The Greens wanted the $6.3bn budget omnibus bill to go to inquiry. | The Greens wanted the $6.3bn budget omnibus bill to go to inquiry. |
| Richard Di Natale is cranky about forcing the Senate to consider the bill in a day. | Richard Di Natale is cranky about forcing the Senate to consider the bill in a day. |
| Now, here we are, after this government has spent the first two days of the parliament filibustering, talking about God knows what, and we’re being asked to stay here to ram this bill through the parliament tonight. | Now, here we are, after this government has spent the first two days of the parliament filibustering, talking about God knows what, and we’re being asked to stay here to ram this bill through the parliament tonight. |
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| Senate may sit late to pass budget omnibus bill | Senate may sit late to pass budget omnibus bill |
| We may be in for a late night. Labor and the Coalition have voted together to extend the Senate sitting hours tonight to get the omnibus bill through. We will not know until later how long it will take because anyone who wants to speak on the bill can speak. There is no cut-off rule in the Senate. It’s how they roll. | We may be in for a late night. Labor and the Coalition have voted together to extend the Senate sitting hours tonight to get the omnibus bill through. We will not know until later how long it will take because anyone who wants to speak on the bill can speak. There is no cut-off rule in the Senate. It’s how they roll. |
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| More in sorrow than in anger, Labor says maybe to the Coalition’s superannuation compromise. | More in sorrow than in anger, Labor says maybe to the Coalition’s superannuation compromise. |
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