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| Labor lets fly at embattled Kelly O'Dwyer – politics live | |
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| 6.28am BST | |
| 06:28 | |
| I’m back watching the debate on the government’s plebiscite bill in the lower house. | |
| Labor’s Stephen Jones referred to new research on the negative social and psychological impacts of the no campaign in Ireland by researchers at Australia’s University of Queensland and Victoria University. | |
| As Guardian Australia reported the survey of more than 1,600 LGBTI campaigners found: | |
| 6.21am BST | |
| 06:21 | |
| NXT senator Stirling Griff calls for public ownership of utilities | |
| Stirling Griff is setting out an economic agenda quite at odds with the bipartisan consensus of economic rationalism (or neoliberalism, depending who you ask). | |
| He’s just called for government ownership of essential utilities including electricity, water and gas and the national broadband network. | |
| Griff also called for governments to “buy Australian first”, arguing the country is spending millions of dollars on foreign goods decreasing jobs and economic activity here. Even the crockery with the Australian emblem in the parliament dining rooms is made overseas, he says. | |
| 6.14am BST | |
| 06:14 | |
| One Nation senator Stirling Griff is delivering his first speech in the Senate. | |
| Griff called for pre-university internships so young people consider what career is right for them rather than going to university just to get their parents off their backs. | |
| Australia already has too many law graduates that instead of becoming solicitors, end up as baristas. And Nick [Xenophon] didn’t help me with that one. | |
| 6.10am BST | |
| 06:10 | |
| Paul Karp | |
| A detail I forgot to bring you from Senate question time: | |
| One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts asked Simon Birmingham for empirical evidence of climate change, as Birmo was representing the environment and energy minister in Senate question time. | |
| He responded: | |
| The Turnbull government accepts the science of climate change. We take our advice from the chief scientist, the CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology and the departments of the environment and energy as well as leading world science organisations. | |
| Birmingham then gives some of that empirical evidence, including: | |
| That’s the evidence: it’s getting hot in here. | |
| 6.06am BST | |
| 06:06 | |
| Tony Burke has taken aim particularly at Kelly O’Dwyer, and said the revenue and financial services minister was not able to answer “one simple question” about the government’s multinational tax avoidance bill. | |
| That question was shadow treasurer, Chris Bowen’s, question about the tax treatment of affected dividends. Seems that one wasn’t in the question time brief, as my colleague Gabi Chan concluded she was not able to answer the specifics. | |
| 5.58am BST | |
| 05:58 | |
| Manager of opposition business, Tony Burke, is giving a press conference to suggest that Malcolm Turnbull did not defend his colleagues George Brandis, Sussan Ley, Kelly O’Dwyer and Chris Pyne in question time when asked if they were up to their jobs. | |
| He can’t back them in because it’s too humiliating ... but nor can he discipline them, because the instability in the government is extraordinary and he can’t have a former minister joining a former prime minister on the back bench. | |
| 5.53am BST | 5.53am BST |
| 05:53 | 05:53 |
| It was this big I tell you! | It was this big I tell you! |
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| 5.40am BST | 5.40am BST |
| 05:40 | 05:40 |
| Kicked out under section 94A? A-OK | Kicked out under section 94A? A-OK |
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| at 5.43am BST | at 5.43am BST |
| 5.32am BST | 5.32am BST |
| 05:32 | 05:32 |
| The Fixer? Moi? | The Fixer? Moi? |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 5.44am BST | at 5.44am BST |
| 5.28am BST | 5.28am BST |
| 05:28 | 05:28 |
| Malcolm Turnbull found his happy place. | Malcolm Turnbull found his happy place. |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 5.45am BST | at 5.45am BST |
| 5.25am BST | 5.25am BST |
| 05:25 | 05:25 |
| Julian Hill has a feeling he’s being watched by our Mike Bowers. Has the crazy clown craze come to Canberra? | Julian Hill has a feeling he’s being watched by our Mike Bowers. Has the crazy clown craze come to Canberra? |
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| at 5.47am BST | at 5.47am BST |
| 5.21am BST | 5.21am BST |
| 05:21 | 05:21 |
| Here is video of Jim Chalmer’s very pointed attack on Kelly O’Dwyer (ruled out of order) in question time. | Here is video of Jim Chalmer’s very pointed attack on Kelly O’Dwyer (ruled out of order) in question time. |
| “Is this the high point of your brilliant career?” @JEChalmers’ question to @KellyODwyer gets ruled out of order in #qt #auspol pic.twitter.com/0cIqrLRQsL | “Is this the high point of your brilliant career?” @JEChalmers’ question to @KellyODwyer gets ruled out of order in #qt #auspol pic.twitter.com/0cIqrLRQsL |
| 5.19am BST | 5.19am BST |
| 05:19 | 05:19 |
| Kelly O’Dwyer comes to question time prepared for grilling on multinational tax avoidance stunt in the house last night. | Kelly O’Dwyer comes to question time prepared for grilling on multinational tax avoidance stunt in the house last night. |
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| I now have to step off this ship for an hour to do another project. I will hand you over to Paul Karp, who will bring you the best of Bowers. | I now have to step off this ship for an hour to do another project. I will hand you over to Paul Karp, who will bring you the best of Bowers. |
| 5.11am BST | 5.11am BST |
| 05:11 | 05:11 |
| Lucy Wicks to industry minister Greg Hunt: Could the Minister update the House on the actions that the Turnbull Government is making to boost medical research and grow jobs on the Central Coast? What action is the government taking to support the Central Coast medical school and Medical Research Institute and surrounding precinct in Gosford? | Lucy Wicks to industry minister Greg Hunt: Could the Minister update the House on the actions that the Turnbull Government is making to boost medical research and grow jobs on the Central Coast? What action is the government taking to support the Central Coast medical school and Medical Research Institute and surrounding precinct in Gosford? |
| Tony Burke to Christopher Pyne: Given that in the first week of this parliament the government became the first majority government in over 50 years to lose control of the house of Representatives and last night, for the first time not in 50 years but the first time ever an Opposition’s second reading amendment was carried with the government voting against itself, how does the Leader of the House reckon it’s going and is there anything he needs to fix? | Tony Burke to Christopher Pyne: Given that in the first week of this parliament the government became the first majority government in over 50 years to lose control of the house of Representatives and last night, for the first time not in 50 years but the first time ever an Opposition’s second reading amendment was carried with the government voting against itself, how does the Leader of the House reckon it’s going and is there anything he needs to fix? |
| Speaker Smith rules out the question. | Speaker Smith rules out the question. |
| Anthony Albanese yells, oh he might want to answer it! | Anthony Albanese yells, oh he might want to answer it! |
| 5.06am BST | 5.06am BST |
| 05:06 | 05:06 |
| A government question to justice minister Michael Keenan on terrorism. | A government question to justice minister Michael Keenan on terrorism. |
| Then Shorten to Turnbull: Can the prime minister confirm that he fronts a government with a health minister destroying Medicare, a revenue minister not up to the job, ajustice minister who embarrasses the government even when he turns up to work, an attorney-general in conflict with the solicitor-general and a Leader of the House who can’t manage the parliament. Prime minister, is the only reason they keep their job because you are so afraid of losing your job? | Then Shorten to Turnbull: Can the prime minister confirm that he fronts a government with a health minister destroying Medicare, a revenue minister not up to the job, ajustice minister who embarrasses the government even when he turns up to work, an attorney-general in conflict with the solicitor-general and a Leader of the House who can’t manage the parliament. Prime minister, is the only reason they keep their job because you are so afraid of losing your job? |
| Turnbull: | Turnbull: |
| I think should have very careful regard to his own job if he keeps on asking questions like that. The ministry is governing. The ministry is delivering. The government is securing legislation through the parliament. | I think should have very careful regard to his own job if he keeps on asking questions like that. The ministry is governing. The ministry is delivering. The government is securing legislation through the parliament. |
| Then Turnbull winds up into a Churchillian-style address in tone and tempo. Minus fighting on the beaches. Or maybe I am losing it towards the end of the sitting week. | Then Turnbull winds up into a Churchillian-style address in tone and tempo. Minus fighting on the beaches. Or maybe I am losing it towards the end of the sitting week. |
| 5.01am BST | 5.01am BST |
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| Shorten to Turnbull: Can the prime minister explain to the house how the attorney-general was able to consult with the solicitor-general about a direction which did not exist, receive advice from the solicitor-general about a bill the solicitor-general had not seen and receive advice from the solicitor-general about amendments the solicitor-general had not seen?Isn’t it becoming clear that the prime minister’s leadership is so unstable that the attorney-general is surviving for that reason and no other? | Shorten to Turnbull: Can the prime minister explain to the house how the attorney-general was able to consult with the solicitor-general about a direction which did not exist, receive advice from the solicitor-general about a bill the solicitor-general had not seen and receive advice from the solicitor-general about amendments the solicitor-general had not seen?Isn’t it becoming clear that the prime minister’s leadership is so unstable that the attorney-general is surviving for that reason and no other? |
| Turnbull: | Turnbull: |
| The Leader of the Opposition has an experienced member of counsel in the member for Isaacs. He should avoid appearing for himself. | The Leader of the Opposition has an experienced member of counsel in the member for Isaacs. He should avoid appearing for himself. |
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| 04:58 | 04:58 |
| A government question to social services minister Christian Porter: Will the minister update the house on how the government intends to improve the lives of vulnerable Australians through the priority investment approach to welfare? Is the minister aware of any alternative approaches? | A government question to social services minister Christian Porter: Will the minister update the house on how the government intends to improve the lives of vulnerable Australians through the priority investment approach to welfare? Is the minister aware of any alternative approaches? |