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| Malcolm Turnbull consulted his department on solicitor general dispute – politics live | |
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| 5.10am BST | |
| 05:10 | |
| Turnbull has consulted his department on the solicitor general's dispute with Brandis | |
| Labor’s Tony Burke asks Malcolm Turnbull: Has the prime minister sought advice from his department about the current conflict between the attorney-general and the solicitor-general and does the prime minister have confidence in the solicitor-general? | |
| Turnbull says yes and Brandis and Gleeson have his confidence. | |
| I can say that I have discussed it with my department and my secretary, indeed, and I have spoken to him about it. The advice we have is that the attorney-general has... consulted with the solicitor-general in the manner he has described in his submissions that he has made, so the attorney-general has my complete confidence. | |
| Labor asks, what about the solicitor general? | |
| Absolutely, the solicitor-general has my confidence, too, sure. | |
| 5.04am BST | |
| 05:04 | |
| A Dixer to Peter Dutton: will the minister update the house on the importance of Australia’s strong and consistent border protection policies and is the Minister aware of any alternative approaches? | |
| Dutton uses it to identify Labor MPs who don’t support the Labor party’s boats policy in full. | |
| 5.02am BST | |
| 05:02 | |
| Labor to Turnbull: I refer to the member for Warringah’s [Tony Abbott] comments that it’s good to be popular. Given the prime minister’s plebiscite is almost as unpopular as his Government, when will he dump the member for Warringah’s plebiscite and have a free vote on marriage equality? | |
| Turnbull: | |
| Only a few years ago her leader, the member for Maribyrnong [Shorten], the Leader of the Opposition, advocated a plebiscite in the course of a meeting with the Australian Christian Lobby. He went to see them and told them he supported a plebiscite. | |
| Only a year ago the Greens party supported a plebiscite and advocated there should be a plebiscite. The two parties that are steadfastly opposing it in the Senate, or promise that they will,are the Greens and the Labor Party, each of whom has advocated one. | |
| 4.59am BST | |
| 04:59 | |
| Agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce gets a question on supporting the dairy industry which segues into an answer on Labor failing to support a 19% backpacker tax. (We don’t have a final position from Labor yet.) | |
| Joyce says: | |
| I note it is incredibly important that we went into bat for the backpacker industry, the backpacker labour and we have now got a package that comes forward with a 19% tax. This is after consultations with 178 industry groups, welfare groups, unions, labour hire companies and we invited participation for the general community and got over 1,700 submissions. | |
| ARRGHHHHHH! Having not consulted initially on a 32.5% tax, having cut the tax from 32.5% to 19%, which is an increase from 0%. | |
| 4.53am BST | |
| 04:53 | |
| Labor’s Mark Butler to Malcolm Turnbull: In July 2011, the Prime Minister said that 100% of stationary energy will need to come from clean sources by the end of the century. Prime Minister, what happened to you? | |
| Turnbull: | |
| It is a complex business reducing emissions, as we know. The object of government policy is to do so at least cost. The Emissions Reduction Fund has been very successful and we are well on track to meet our 2020 targets, indeed, to beat our 2020 targets.... | |
| We are [meeting the targets] but in a clear-eyed, hard-headed rational manner. It is not an ideological matter, we are approaching it methodically and effectively. | |
| 4.50am BST | |
| 04:50 | |
| A government question to Julie Bishop: Will the Minister advise the House why it’s crucial to have a strong coherent position on important geo security issues? (This goes to the South China Sea dispute and Paul Keating’s comments.) | |
| 4.49am BST | |
| 04:49 | |
| Plibersek to Morrison: It’s now three years since this Government took office. When will the government take responsibility for blowing out the 2015-16 deficit by over eight times in that period? You’ve octupled it. | |
| Labor holds up eight fingers en masse. We get the point, says Speaker Smith. | |
| Morrison goes straight to Wayne Swan and his promised surpluses. | |
| Since this government came to office in 2013, the level of nominal expenditure on payments by the Government which was set out in the 2013 PEFO [Pre Election Fiscal Outlook], the payments by the government for $424.4bn. That was the estimate. The actual amount of payments in the 2016 PEFO was $425bn. This is a government that has ensured we have controlled expenditure. The budget I handed down in May, based on the final outcome figures, will see expenditure as a share of the economy fall. | |
| Hang on to your hats. Greg Jericho is going to fact check that one. | |
| 4.42am BST | 4.42am BST |
| 04:42 | 04:42 |
| A government question to financial services minister Kelly O’Dwyer: How will our enterprise tax plan proposals for small business and income tax cuts for individuals help grow the economy and create jobs and higher wages for the hard-working Australians of Dunkley and elsewhere? | A government question to financial services minister Kelly O’Dwyer: How will our enterprise tax plan proposals for small business and income tax cuts for individuals help grow the economy and create jobs and higher wages for the hard-working Australians of Dunkley and elsewhere? |
| 4.41am BST | 4.41am BST |
| 04:41 | 04:41 |
| Bowen asks Morrison: Why is the Treasurer refusing to listen to Ceda, the Grattan Institute, International Monetary Fund, Moody’s, Standard and Poor’s on the urgent need for revenue measures to get the budget back into balance and maintain Australia’s three AAA credit ratings agencies? | Bowen asks Morrison: Why is the Treasurer refusing to listen to Ceda, the Grattan Institute, International Monetary Fund, Moody’s, Standard and Poor’s on the urgent need for revenue measures to get the budget back into balance and maintain Australia’s three AAA credit ratings agencies? |
| Morrison: | Morrison: |
| What this country has to face is to grow our economy so we grow revenues. You grow small businesses into larger businesses.You ensure Australians can increase their earning capacity. That companies can profit more. Wage earners can earn more on their wages. When you achieve economic policies that increase the earnings of Australians, that’s how you raise the revenue. You don’t do it by jacking up taxes like those and others have suggested. What we have done is make sure Australians pay their fair share of tax, multi-nationals will be paying their fair share of tax. | What this country has to face is to grow our economy so we grow revenues. You grow small businesses into larger businesses.You ensure Australians can increase their earning capacity. That companies can profit more. Wage earners can earn more on their wages. When you achieve economic policies that increase the earnings of Australians, that’s how you raise the revenue. You don’t do it by jacking up taxes like those and others have suggested. What we have done is make sure Australians pay their fair share of tax, multi-nationals will be paying their fair share of tax. |
| 4.38am BST | 4.38am BST |
| 04:38 | 04:38 |
| Paul Karp | Paul Karp |
| In Senate question time, senator Penny Wong has taken up the attack on attorney general George Brandis by asking why he failed to stick up for the solicitor general when he was criticised by senator Ian MacDonald. | In Senate question time, senator Penny Wong has taken up the attack on attorney general George Brandis by asking why he failed to stick up for the solicitor general when he was criticised by senator Ian MacDonald. |
| Wong said that as the first legal officer, Brandis is obliged to stand up for independent statutory officers like Justin Gleeson and Australian Human Rights Commission president, Gillian Triggs. | Wong said that as the first legal officer, Brandis is obliged to stand up for independent statutory officers like Justin Gleeson and Australian Human Rights Commission president, Gillian Triggs. |
| MacDonald accused Gleeson and Triggs of “being involved in political games”, and Wong adds MacDonald said Gleeson’s advice “has not been all that hot” and his submission to an parliamentary committee examining the spat with Brandis was “terribly unprofessional”. | MacDonald accused Gleeson and Triggs of “being involved in political games”, and Wong adds MacDonald said Gleeson’s advice “has not been all that hot” and his submission to an parliamentary committee examining the spat with Brandis was “terribly unprofessional”. |
| The attorney general sticks to his guns that he didn’t read or hear MacDonald’s speech and adds that in an interview with Radio National Brandis had said “some very gracious things” about Gleeson. | The attorney general sticks to his guns that he didn’t read or hear MacDonald’s speech and adds that in an interview with Radio National Brandis had said “some very gracious things” about Gleeson. |
| Let’s see how cordial the attorney general and solicitor general are when they appear on Friday before the committee inquiring into Brandis’ veto over referrals for legal advice. | Let’s see how cordial the attorney general and solicitor general are when they appear on Friday before the committee inquiring into Brandis’ veto over referrals for legal advice. |
| 4.36am BST | 4.36am BST |
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| "It's nice to be popular Mr Speaker" Tony Abbott reacts to interjections from labor #QT @gabriellechan @GuardianAus pic.twitter.com/fe3l4dNc3c | "It's nice to be popular Mr Speaker" Tony Abbott reacts to interjections from labor #QT @gabriellechan @GuardianAus pic.twitter.com/fe3l4dNc3c |
| 4.36am BST | 4.36am BST |
| 04:36 | 04:36 |
| The Dixer question to Morrison is on Labor not supporting the government’s enterprise tax plan which cuts tax for small moving to large businesses. | The Dixer question to Morrison is on Labor not supporting the government’s enterprise tax plan which cuts tax for small moving to large businesses. |
| 4.34am BST | 4.34am BST |
| 04:34 | 04:34 |
| Labor goes to negative gearing. Very interesting. | Labor goes to negative gearing. Very interesting. |
| Bowen to Morrison: Yesterday the chairman of Ceda said there is no believable end to the deficit in sight and revenue measures are “the only realistic way to balance the budget quickly”. Does the treasurer agree with this advice from Ceda and why won’t the government embrace negative gearing reform? | Bowen to Morrison: Yesterday the chairman of Ceda said there is no believable end to the deficit in sight and revenue measures are “the only realistic way to balance the budget quickly”. Does the treasurer agree with this advice from Ceda and why won’t the government embrace negative gearing reform? |
| Morrison gets shouty. After a rant about Labor increasing questions, the treasurer says: | Morrison gets shouty. After a rant about Labor increasing questions, the treasurer says: |
| no, Mr Speaker, we do not agree with the Opposition that the road to dealing with the budget issues is to increase taxes and to increase the deficit as those opposite proposed at the last election. | no, Mr Speaker, we do not agree with the Opposition that the road to dealing with the budget issues is to increase taxes and to increase the deficit as those opposite proposed at the last election. |
| BTW, Scott Morrison has supported limiting negative gearing excesses in the past. | BTW, Scott Morrison has supported limiting negative gearing excesses in the past. |
| 4.29am BST | 4.29am BST |
| 04:29 | 04:29 |
| Tony Abbott has come in from the cold. | Tony Abbott has come in from the cold. |
| Come on down Tony. | Come on down Tony. |
| 4.27am BST | 4.27am BST |
| 04:27 | 04:27 |
| Tony Abbott gets a question to the trade minister Steve Ciobo. Applause and cheers erupt from the Labor benches. Abbott looks genuinely pleased, noting “nice to be popular”. Abbott asks: Will the Minister update the house on how the expanded Singapore-Australian Free Trade Agreement will support the government’s plan for jobs and growth? | Tony Abbott gets a question to the trade minister Steve Ciobo. Applause and cheers erupt from the Labor benches. Abbott looks genuinely pleased, noting “nice to be popular”. Abbott asks: Will the Minister update the house on how the expanded Singapore-Australian Free Trade Agreement will support the government’s plan for jobs and growth? |