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| Labor lets fly at embattled Kelly O'Dwyer – politics live | Labor lets fly at embattled Kelly O'Dwyer – politics live |
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| 6.55am BST | |
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| Why hello again! I am back for the adjournment debate. Thanks to Paul Karp for stepping into the breach. | |
| Arrghhhh I’m losing it. | |
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| Senator Derryn Hinch on Sky News has said that he wants to bring a motion in the Senate on Thursday so that the new photography rules apply from the next sitting day, 7 November (instead of 28 November). | |
| Hinch also said his initial view was that a plebiscite as a last resort would be a good idea. | |
| Then I saw the cost of it. And It’s not fair, we’re not here to judge people’s lives and who loves who, it’s not our call. | |
| 6.34am BST | |
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| Liberal MP Craig Kelly is speaking on the plebiscite bill. | |
| He’s attacked Labor for sending out text messages that “appeared to be official communications from Medicare” at the federal election, linking the two issues by arguing they both represent a disdain for democracy: | |
| There was no embarrassment, no apology, just a ha ha ha we tricked you. That is the disdain we’re seeing for the democratic process. | |
| If false statements are made in trade or commerce they are unlawful, Kelly said. | |
| It’s an interesting point but it does tend to lend weight to the concern that the set up of the plebiscite allows third-party groups to run advertisements without any restraint on the nature or truth of their messages. | |
| 6.28am BST | 6.28am BST |
| 06:28 | 06:28 |
| I’m back watching the debate on the government’s plebiscite bill in the lower house. | 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. | 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: | As Guardian Australia reported the survey of more than 1,600 LGBTI campaigners found: |
| 6.21am BST | 6.21am BST |
| 06:21 | 06:21 |
| NXT senator Stirling Griff calls for public ownership of utilities | 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). | 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. | 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. | 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 | 6.14am BST |
| 06:14 | 06:14 |
| NXT 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. | 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. | 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. |
| This post has been amended as Griff was incorrectly called a One Nation senator. Guardian Australia apologises. | |
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| 6.10am BST | 6.10am BST |
| 06:10 | 06:10 |
| Paul Karp | Paul Karp |
| A detail I forgot to bring you from Senate question time: | 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. | 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: | 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. | 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: | Birmingham then gives some of that empirical evidence, including: |
| That’s the evidence: it’s getting hot in here. | That’s the evidence: it’s getting hot in here. |
| 6.06am BST | 6.06am BST |
| 06:06 | 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. | 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. | 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 | 5.58am BST |
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| 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. | 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. | 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. |
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| It was this big I tell you! | It was this big I tell you! |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 5.59am BST | at 5.59am BST |
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| Kicked out under section 94A? A-OK | Kicked out under section 94A? A-OK |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 5.43am BST | at 5.43am BST |