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| Brandis says Labor 'playing politics with gay people's lives' as plebiscite bill fails – politics live | Brandis says Labor 'playing politics with gay people's lives' as plebiscite bill fails – politics live |
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| Radical, Russell, Radical! Stand in the elite corner, says George Christensen | |
| George Christensen, unplugged on Facebook. The big man of Queensland hits back at his colleague Russell Broadbent, who gave Christensen a character reading yesterday. | |
| Victorian Liberal Russell Broadbent told parliament last night that I had given a speech recently that was a “diatribe about the rise of Islam.” | |
| It seems Mr Broadbent is suffering the same problem many other politically correct hand wringers suffer: they do not hear the word “radical” when I talk about “radical Islam”. | |
| Islam is a religion and we have freedom of religion in this country. Radical Islam or Islamism is an ideology and a dangerous one at that. | |
| Nowhere in the speech Mr Broadbent has criticised me for will anyone find any criticism of Islam. | |
| Mr Broadbent is part of the elitist set here in Canberra that we find on all sides of politics. This is confirmed by the fact he told parliament last night that MPs shouldn’t reflect the concerns of their electors but instead should be “leading” them. | |
| The last time I checked I sat in the House of REPRESENTATIVES not the House of Lords. | |
| This is why many people are coming to the conclusion that politics is broken: MPs of all political persuasions don’t listen much at all to the public’s concerns and they hardly ever act upon them. | |
| If in doubt, yell elites! | |
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| Some housekeeping first. | |
| Remember there were cabinet and shadow cabinet meetings last night and there will be party room meetings this morning. | |
| You could reasonably assume that cabinet discussed 18C and senator Dean Smith’s proposal for some sort of parliamentary committee. | |
| Labor’s shadow cabinet discussed the plan to ban all asylum seekers who have ever arrived by boat. All the noises and smoke signals suggest they will actually vote against the Coalition’s bill but let’s not count our chickens etc etc. | |
| Labor may also (finally) announce a position on the backpackers tax. | |
| The house will sit at 12pm. | |
| The Senate will sit at 12.30pm. | |
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| at 10.14pm GMT | |
| 9.44pm GMT | 9.44pm GMT |
| 21:44 | 21:44 |
| As I said yesterday, the Liberal moderates are coming out slowly, slowly. Which places Malcolm Turnbull between a rock and a hard place. Turnbull is firmly entrenched in the NSW moderate position. He has the conservatives continuing their fulsome contributions and the moderates increasingly pushing back. | As I said yesterday, the Liberal moderates are coming out slowly, slowly. Which places Malcolm Turnbull between a rock and a hard place. Turnbull is firmly entrenched in the NSW moderate position. He has the conservatives continuing their fulsome contributions and the moderates increasingly pushing back. |
| Last week Fairfax reported that the new Berowra Liberal MP, Julian Leeser, told the Chinese Australian Services Society there was no case for change to 18C. He said there is a procedural fix to the problem such as a part-time judicial member of the commission to initially consider complaints so those with little prospect of success could be stopped. | Last week Fairfax reported that the new Berowra Liberal MP, Julian Leeser, told the Chinese Australian Services Society there was no case for change to 18C. He said there is a procedural fix to the problem such as a part-time judicial member of the commission to initially consider complaints so those with little prospect of success could be stopped. |
| There were the unsourced articles in the Australian Financial Review on Monday morning. | There were the unsourced articles in the Australian Financial Review on Monday morning. |
| By yesterday afternoon, new Liberal Mackellar MP Jason Falinski had spoken to Murph, saying the government should look instead to procedural changes. | By yesterday afternoon, new Liberal Mackellar MP Jason Falinski had spoken to Murph, saying the government should look instead to procedural changes. |
| Falinski said it was important any 18C parliamentary inquiry should be broad-ranging, looking at curbs on free speech such as defamation, not just the RDA provisions. | Falinski said it was important any 18C parliamentary inquiry should be broad-ranging, looking at curbs on free speech such as defamation, not just the RDA provisions. |
| We’ve got to look at this systematically. | We’ve got to look at this systematically. |
| This morning, the Bennelong MP, John Alexander, has told ABC AM that 18C is a “fringe issue”. | This morning, the Bennelong MP, John Alexander, has told ABC AM that 18C is a “fringe issue”. |
| If you did a ranking of the top 10 ... it wouldn’t be in the top 100. | If you did a ranking of the top 10 ... it wouldn’t be in the top 100. |
| Alexander has John Howard’s old seat, which has turned into one of the most diverse in Sydney, as Howard found to his chagrin in 2007, when he not only lost government but lost his seat. | Alexander has John Howard’s old seat, which has turned into one of the most diverse in Sydney, as Howard found to his chagrin in 2007, when he not only lost government but lost his seat. |
| [The party has] a broad church. We have a range of opinions. I dare say there will be big discussion about it but for my money I am happy where [18C] is at. | [The party has] a broad church. We have a range of opinions. I dare say there will be big discussion about it but for my money I am happy where [18C] is at. |
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| at 9.48pm GMT | at 9.48pm GMT |
| 9.20pm GMT | 9.20pm GMT |
| 21:20 | 21:20 |
| You may have already seen Katharine Murphy’s story on the intervention by the Liberal MP Russell Broadbent overnight, chastising those who seek to divide. | You may have already seen Katharine Murphy’s story on the intervention by the Liberal MP Russell Broadbent overnight, chastising those who seek to divide. |
| He helpfully suggests LNP MP George Christensen, who shares his party room. Broadbent, who has a long history of opposing hardline asylum seeker policies, said the Coalition would hurt if it took the low road towards One Nation. | He helpfully suggests LNP MP George Christensen, who shares his party room. Broadbent, who has a long history of opposing hardline asylum seeker policies, said the Coalition would hurt if it took the low road towards One Nation. |
| Broadbent warned that “diatribes” against Islam, such as interventions from the LNP backbencher George Christensen, would only hurt the Coalition in the long run. | Broadbent warned that “diatribes” against Islam, such as interventions from the LNP backbencher George Christensen, would only hurt the Coalition in the long run. |
| “Those propositions and policies will only hurt the Coalition parties in the long run in the same way the once great Labor party now is the captive of the Greens, relying on their preferences to win 31 of their seats in this House,” Broadbent told the chamber on Monday night. | “Those propositions and policies will only hurt the Coalition parties in the long run in the same way the once great Labor party now is the captive of the Greens, relying on their preferences to win 31 of their seats in this House,” Broadbent told the chamber on Monday night. |
| “Right here, right now, we can turn to the high road. Let this nation be the circuit breaker and travel the road of the wise, leaving the foolish to perish in division.” | “Right here, right now, we can turn to the high road. Let this nation be the circuit breaker and travel the road of the wise, leaving the foolish to perish in division.” |
| Broadbent said the government needed to show empathy and consideration for people doing it tough. “If not, we further push those that feel alienation and disaffection by economic and social exclusion into the arms of the One Nations of this country.” | Broadbent said the government needed to show empathy and consideration for people doing it tough. “If not, we further push those that feel alienation and disaffection by economic and social exclusion into the arms of the One Nations of this country.” |
| Coincidentally, Penny Wong is giving her own version of the low road speech at the National Press Club. The Labor foreign affairs spokeswoman will say Hanson is damaging our reputation in Asia. | Coincidentally, Penny Wong is giving her own version of the low road speech at the National Press Club. The Labor foreign affairs spokeswoman will say Hanson is damaging our reputation in Asia. |
| In 1996, Pauline Hanson claimed, falsely, that Australia was being swamped by Asians. Now she claims, falsely, that Australia is in danger of being swamped by Muslims. One Nation wants to shut down migration to Australia based on racial and religious prejudice. It wants to turn back history, to restore Australia to some imagined earlier state as a uniform, homogenous, static society. This is not just a narrow-minded and impoverished vision for the future. It is also based on a myth about Australia’s past. | In 1996, Pauline Hanson claimed, falsely, that Australia was being swamped by Asians. Now she claims, falsely, that Australia is in danger of being swamped by Muslims. One Nation wants to shut down migration to Australia based on racial and religious prejudice. It wants to turn back history, to restore Australia to some imagined earlier state as a uniform, homogenous, static society. This is not just a narrow-minded and impoverished vision for the future. It is also based on a myth about Australia’s past. |
| Wong will argue the myth of a culturally homogenous Australia “airbrushes out of our history the Afghan camel drivers, the Chinese working the gold fields, the Japanese pearl divers and the hundreds of thousands of Irish migrants who came here during the 19th century”. | Wong will argue the myth of a culturally homogenous Australia “airbrushes out of our history the Afghan camel drivers, the Chinese working the gold fields, the Japanese pearl divers and the hundreds of thousands of Irish migrants who came here during the 19th century”. |
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| at 9.31pm GMT | at 9.31pm GMT |
| 8.58pm GMT | 8.58pm GMT |
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| Good morning, | Good morning, |
| The plebiscite bill is dead. The votes, 29 to 33. If you are confused over the numbers, given there are 75 senators (with Bob Day gone), there were lots of pairs for completely unrelated reasons. The Liberal senator Dean Smith abstained – a position he has flagged well ahead of the vote. He called the plebiscite an attack on parliamentary sovereignty. | The plebiscite bill is dead. The votes, 29 to 33. If you are confused over the numbers, given there are 75 senators (with Bob Day gone), there were lots of pairs for completely unrelated reasons. The Liberal senator Dean Smith abstained – a position he has flagged well ahead of the vote. He called the plebiscite an attack on parliamentary sovereignty. |
| Those voting for a plebiscite: | Those voting for a plebiscite: |
| Those voting against a plebiscite: | Those voting against a plebiscite: |
| George Brandis was cranky. | George Brandis was cranky. |
| Stop playing politics with gay people’s lives, because that is all that you are doing. A vote against this bill is a vote against marriage equality. And those who claim to believe in marriage equality but nevertheless, for their own cynical, game-playing reasons, are determined to vote against it, should hang their heads in shame. | Stop playing politics with gay people’s lives, because that is all that you are doing. A vote against this bill is a vote against marriage equality. And those who claim to believe in marriage equality but nevertheless, for their own cynical, game-playing reasons, are determined to vote against it, should hang their heads in shame. |
| But, as you can see from the top picture, there was a very relieved Penny Wong in the chamber. | But, as you can see from the top picture, there was a very relieved Penny Wong in the chamber. |
| This morning, the Labor deputy, Tanya Plibersek, says it is time for old Malcolm to reappear. | This morning, the Labor deputy, Tanya Plibersek, says it is time for old Malcolm to reappear. |
| This is not where the fight for marriage equality ends. We now need Malcolm Turnbull to do what the old Malcolm Turnbull would have done ... a free vote. | This is not where the fight for marriage equality ends. We now need Malcolm Turnbull to do what the old Malcolm Turnbull would have done ... a free vote. |
| There is a whole lot more going on. Mike Bowers has just wandered in with sweaty pictures of your deputy prime minister – the Barnaby – so grab a towel. In fact, maybe it is the warm weather but this morning, the grassy hills of parliament are full of people running up and down in active wear. It looks like my childhood ant farm. | There is a whole lot more going on. Mike Bowers has just wandered in with sweaty pictures of your deputy prime minister – the Barnaby – so grab a towel. In fact, maybe it is the warm weather but this morning, the grassy hills of parliament are full of people running up and down in active wear. It looks like my childhood ant farm. |
| Talk to me on the Twits @gabriellechan or Facebook and @mpbowers. | Talk to me on the Twits @gabriellechan or Facebook and @mpbowers. |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 9.14pm GMT | at 9.14pm GMT |