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| Family First senator Bob Day to resign – politics live | |
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| Penny Wong’s eyebrows deserve their own Twitter account. You can tell when she is dubious about a certain claim. The left eyebrow jumps at the slightest provocation. | |
| Senator Wong has busted out her left "Oh really?" eyebrow @ estimates-@ rest & factor 5 Oh Really. @gabriellechan pic.twitter.com/AWAoQPvR7m | |
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| Reports that Bob Day's Home Australia company is in liquidation. A reminder that Day's private company made large payments to FF since 2011 pic.twitter.com/ojyXKmthrW | |
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| The main contenders to replace Bob Day are also free-market. Expected to take the same stance on ABCC, Registered Organisation Commission. | |
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| As Day leaves a casual vacancy, Family First gets to choose the next senator. Who may not have the IR bent. | |
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| Ben Doherty | |
| During an at-times heated, consistently partisan, and frequently juvenile legal and constitutional affairs committee estimates hearing, we learned little, though one astonishing fact did emerge: Senator Ian MacDonald does not read The Guardian. [Irony font] | |
| (It should also be remembered he famously claimed not to have read an Australian Human Rights Committee report about which he was questioning the committee president - because he’d already decided it was biased). | |
| Labor senators tried to skewer former Liberal MP Wyatt Roy over his ‘war tourism’ to Iraq but the intrepid Roy was stoutly defended by Coalition senators. | |
| Those appearing before the committee appeared uncomfortable about discussing the travel of a ‘private citizen’, but several questions about Roy’s now-notorious sortie to the middle east were reluctantly taken on notice. | |
| And lots of uniforms. Australian Border Force uniforms, Australian Defence Force uniforms. Lots of epaulettes, lots of badges, and gold stars for all. They’ve broken now for lunch and medals. | |
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| Katharine Murphy has confirmed the resignation. We are awaiting a statement from Day regarding the resignation. | |
| Needless to say, the Coalition has lost an advocate for their IR reforms, given Day is a former member of the Liberal party and a zealot on IR reforms that suited the Coalition. | |
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| For those who have not been watching the travail’s of Bob Day - building tsar and Family First senator, you may be confused by Day’s decision. | |
| This is an example of some of the reports regarding this matter. As of last week from the Oz: | |
| Family First senator and businessman Bob Day is being sued for $2 million by the former owners of Huxley Homes, the troubled NSW arm of his embattled house building empire. | |
| Graham and Bryan Huxley told the NSW Supreme Court that Senator Day’s Home Australia group was slow to pay the $14.7m price for Huxley and welshed on office rental deals. | |
| Senator Day and his former business partner, John Smith, personally guaranteed the payments, the Huxleys allege in a statement filed with the court by their company Potoro. | |
| In recent months, the senator has been battling to keep creditors from winding up Home Australia, even pledging his Adelaide Hills home as security to keep the business running. | |
| Home Australia has also been under siege from angry customers in Victoria and NSW, who say the company’s problems paying contractors have stalled building work on home sites. | |
| Day provided this statement: | |
| Full statement that was sent to the Australian newspaper regarding their Home Australia stories. I stepped back in to help out. pic.twitter.com/cFhzNZ54wY | |
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| Senator Bob Day to resign from senate: reports | |
| Bob Day has confirmed he is quitting the Senate. | |
| 2.48am BST | 2.48am BST |
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| Lunch time politics | Lunch time politics |
| As the finance and public administration committee goes off to check their Whatsapp messages and find a bite, here is a lunchtime summary of what we know. | As the finance and public administration committee goes off to check their Whatsapp messages and find a bite, here is a lunchtime summary of what we know. |
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| at 2.48am BST | at 2.48am BST |
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| CFA laws will be challenged in high court by unions | CFA laws will be challenged in high court by unions |
| AAP: | AAP: |
| Laws protecting Victorian CFA volunteers engaged in a long-running dispute with the firefighters union will be challenged in the High Court.Changes to the Fair Work Act passed federal parliament last week as the Turnbull government delivered on its election promise to intervene in the dispute.United Firefighters Union secretary Peter Marshall has told the Australian Financial Review on Monday the union will launch a constitutional challenge against the laws. | Laws protecting Victorian CFA volunteers engaged in a long-running dispute with the firefighters union will be challenged in the High Court.Changes to the Fair Work Act passed federal parliament last week as the Turnbull government delivered on its election promise to intervene in the dispute.United Firefighters Union secretary Peter Marshall has told the Australian Financial Review on Monday the union will launch a constitutional challenge against the laws. |
| 2.25am BST | 2.25am BST |
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| What's up? We all chat on Whatsapp. | What's up? We all chat on Whatsapp. |
| Alastair MacGibbon says he communicates with several people - including the PM - on Whatsapp. | Alastair MacGibbon says he communicates with several people - including the PM - on Whatsapp. |
| Wong goes in further but Brandis steps in. | Wong goes in further but Brandis steps in. |
| He says having commicated with the PM and his other colleagues on Whatsapp, he has never shared anything sensitive. | He says having commicated with the PM and his other colleagues on Whatsapp, he has never shared anything sensitive. |
| Wong asks if there is a Cabinet Whatsapp group? Brandis doesn’t seem sure. He says its no biggie, not in as many words. | Wong asks if there is a Cabinet Whatsapp group? Brandis doesn’t seem sure. He says its no biggie, not in as many words. |
| If it is not remarkable, can you make it public, asks Wong. | If it is not remarkable, can you make it public, asks Wong. |
| So its entirely unremarkable but you don’t want it exposed to the public | So its entirely unremarkable but you don’t want it exposed to the public |
| Silence from the attorney. | Silence from the attorney. |
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| From AAP: | From AAP: |
| Federal police are not investigating Wyatt Roy’s unofficial visit to an Iraqi war zone.The former Liberal MP was caught in the crossfire between the Islamic State group and Kurdish Peshmerga forces near an area Australians are legally banned from visiting.Australian federal police commissioner Andrew Colvin said his organisation had done “due diligence” into the matter but there was no open investigation.“Based on the public reporting we did form a conclusion that we didn’t believe any offences had been committed,” he said.Roy’s trip was widely condemned by federal politicians including the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull. | Federal police are not investigating Wyatt Roy’s unofficial visit to an Iraqi war zone.The former Liberal MP was caught in the crossfire between the Islamic State group and Kurdish Peshmerga forces near an area Australians are legally banned from visiting.Australian federal police commissioner Andrew Colvin said his organisation had done “due diligence” into the matter but there was no open investigation.“Based on the public reporting we did form a conclusion that we didn’t believe any offences had been committed,” he said.Roy’s trip was widely condemned by federal politicians including the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull. |
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| Alastair MacGibbon, the PM’s special advisor on cyber security has shimmied into the chair to answer the tech-head questions on secure communications. | Alastair MacGibbon, the PM’s special advisor on cyber security has shimmied into the chair to answer the tech-head questions on secure communications. |
| This is all about the use of Whatsapp and other platforms. Generally the message from PMC is giving is that any technical communications should be done over the government’s secure platforms. | This is all about the use of Whatsapp and other platforms. Generally the message from PMC is giving is that any technical communications should be done over the government’s secure platforms. |
| Wong wants to know where staff get guidance on using apps. Given we know that ministers and chief of staffs are communicating on Whatsapp, says Wong, are we doing anything to provided updated info? Do you know where the servers are? No, says PMC’s Allan McKinnon. | Wong wants to know where staff get guidance on using apps. Given we know that ministers and chief of staffs are communicating on Whatsapp, says Wong, are we doing anything to provided updated info? Do you know where the servers are? No, says PMC’s Allan McKinnon. |
| McKinnon says the government has to rely on security clearances being regularly updated. | McKinnon says the government has to rely on security clearances being regularly updated. |
| 2.06am BST | 2.06am BST |
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| Penny Wong is question the PMC about the prime minister and ministers use of communication apps like Whatsapp. This follows a story by James Massola in Fairfax. | Penny Wong is question the PMC about the prime minister and ministers use of communication apps like Whatsapp. This follows a story by James Massola in Fairfax. |
| Allan McKinnon of PMC says that he did not raise any issues following the report. | Allan McKinnon of PMC says that he did not raise any issues following the report. |
| Wong asks “does anyone check”? Argy bargy ensues about answers. | Wong asks “does anyone check”? Argy bargy ensues about answers. |
| Brandis intervenes to help Elizabeth Kelly of PMC. | Brandis intervenes to help Elizabeth Kelly of PMC. |
| Wong fires back that he should have stopped the “disgusting bullying of a statutory officer” (solicitor general) Justin Gleeson. | Wong fires back that he should have stopped the “disgusting bullying of a statutory officer” (solicitor general) Justin Gleeson. |
| Brandis says Kelly is also a statutory officer. | Brandis says Kelly is also a statutory officer. |
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| Lodge renovations and the cost of upholstery from supplementary answers. | Lodge renovations and the cost of upholstery from supplementary answers. |
| The total cost of refurbishing the original Ruth Lane-Poole lounge and two matching chairs was $11,524.22 (GST inclusive). | The total cost of refurbishing the original Ruth Lane-Poole lounge and two matching chairs was $11,524.22 (GST inclusive). |
| Poole was one of the original designers. | Poole was one of the original designers. |
| 1.47am BST | 1.47am BST |
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| Exhibit A. Heritage stairs. Precarious and valuable. | Exhibit A. Heritage stairs. Precarious and valuable. |
| MacAlister wonders if there are any pictures of said luggage lift? Nope. | MacAlister wonders if there are any pictures of said luggage lift? Nope. |
| No other prime minister needed this, says Wong. | No other prime minister needed this, says Wong. |
| Wong asks if Turnbull is the only PM to have a luggage lift? | Wong asks if Turnbull is the only PM to have a luggage lift? |
| Turnbull is the only prime minister who has lived in the Lodge, says Kelly. The luggage lift was in the original reno plans in 2010. | Turnbull is the only prime minister who has lived in the Lodge, says Kelly. The luggage lift was in the original reno plans in 2010. |
| Not Malcolm’s lift - is the message. Over. | Not Malcolm’s lift - is the message. Over. |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 1.47am BST | at 1.47am BST |
| 1.43am BST | 1.43am BST |
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| Penny Wong wants to know about what a luggage lift looks like. Paula Ganly says it’s a bit like a dumb waiter, certainly not for people. | Penny Wong wants to know about what a luggage lift looks like. Paula Ganly says it’s a bit like a dumb waiter, certainly not for people. |