This article is from the source 'guardian' and was first published or seen
on .
It last changed over 40 days ago and won't be checked again for changes.
Labor says Coalition's lifetime ban on asylum seekers would affect thousands – politics live
Julie Bishop: Australia is ready to work with Trump if he wins today – politics live
(35 minutes later)
5.02am GMT
5.42am GMT
05:02
05:42
And a million doomsday preppers yell WHO'S A PARANOID DICKHEAD NOW? #electionday pic.twitter.com/7SGGF3izMD
Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts toasting Donald Trump with champagne outside Parliament House #auspol pic.twitter.com/zIQ5bZAKah
5.01am GMT
5.41am GMT
05:01
05:41
New York Times is forecasting a 95% chance of a Trump presidency.
Meanwhile, Treasurer Scott Morrison is introducing the superannuation bills into the lower house.
5.00am GMT
5.39am GMT
05:00
05:39
4.42am GMT
Penny Wong is playing down previous comments by Bill Shorten, who described Trump as “barking mad”.
04:42
She says Josh Frydenberg has described him as a “dropkick”. Malcolm Turnbull has described his comments about women as “loathsome”.
By George!
Wong repeats Bishop’s comments that Labor will work with whoever is in office.
Labor MPs were yelling:
She won’t nominate – to David Speers on Sky – any point of agreement she was with Trump. She won’t enter into it.
Someone read it to him.
Updated
Updated
at 4.46am GMT
at 5.42am GMT
4.40am GMT
5.35am GMT
04:40
05:35
From AAP on Guardian:
Thanks for the reminder, Frank.
The Australian share market and Australian dollar fell sharply as Donald Trump’s chances of winning the US presidential election firmed following the declaration of some key battleground states.
Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi (November 3, 2016)"Donald Trump is not my ideal candidate, he's not conservative enough for me"
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was down 3.5% at 2.32pm AEDT, after trading in positive territory all morning on expectations Hillary Clinton would win the tightly contested race to the White House.
If the selling is maintained, the market will take a bigger hit than the 3.2% plunge recorded in June when the UK voted to leave the European Union.
The Australian dollar hit a six-month high of 77.72 US cents at about midday on Wednesday, but dropped an hour later and was at 76.23 US cents at 2.32pm AEDT.
4.37am GMT
04:37
CARP!
4.35am GMT
04:35
4.33am GMT
04:33
Pyne (Channel 10, November 8) "I think Hillary will win, and win easily, and I think that will be the best outcome for Australia"
Julie Bishop and Christopher Pyne check US results in question time.
4.29am GMT
04:29
Former Liberal MP Ross Cameron...
Ross Cameron just punched the head off a Hillary cutout at this #trumpsaussiemates party pic.twitter.com/jNXSkYGibS
4.27am GMT
04:27
Meanwhile, the Australian stockmarket is struggling at the thought of a Trump presidency.
The Australian stock market going through stages of grief…. pic.twitter.com/2mIz5NdlRE
4.26am GMT
04:26
I will not be lectured to by that man (Scott Morrison).
Updated
Updated
at 4.26am GMT
at 5.42am GMT
4.15am GMT
5.35am GMT
04:15
05:35
Question time is over.
Hey @AlboMP , do you think now is about the right time for @billshortenmp to consider his position? #Trump #MakeAmericaGreatAgain
George Christensen is showing off his Trump book #qt
5.34am GMT
4.07am GMT
05:34
04:07
Make Australia Great Againhttps://t.co/xdHZpbjmgZ #MakeAustraliaGreatAgain
Joel Fitzgibbon asks Barnaby Joyce about Paul Grimes, the former head of the agriculture department who was sacked by the Coalition.
5.34am GMT
It refers to a letter only released by the government recently in which Grimes told Joyce he could no longer work with Joyce as agriculture minister “to resolve matters of integrity”.
05:34
The government fought the release of the letter under Freedom of Information laws for a year.
Looking promising...#MakeAmericaGreatAgain
Joyce bluffs and blusters through the answer without answering.
5.33am GMT
Labor yells across the chamber,
05:33
Don’t go on leave Malcolm.
The artist formerly known as Madame Speaker.
4.00am GMT
I'm at a #Trump party in Sydney. Bronwyn Bishop enjoying the results #Election2016 #auspol @abcnews pic.twitter.com/5JQSFnp98X
04:00
5.31am GMT
Joel Fitzgibbon to Barnaby Joyce: Speaking about Donald Trump this morning you said “What people say on the campaign trail is mitigated by the strong advice they get once they get into office because if you just fly solo on every issue, you will create major problems for your nation”. Has this been your experience with your own handling of the backpacker tax, drought relief and the relocation of the pesticides authorities to your own electorate, just to name a few?
05:31
Joyce:
Julie Bishop to the US: stay in the region
I think it is very important if you look at the current polling to be careful about what you say about what might be the next President of the United States, noting that Mr Trump is currently ahead...
There is a palpable sense of shock and nervousness in this building.
Joyce is yelling very loudly.
You can hear it in the last two questions to Julie Bishop.
The answer involves Santa Claus, foreign workers v Australian workers, shearers from Uruguay, brain explosions and senator Jacqui Lambie.
Q: Mr Trump can appear to be an incredibly volatile and orphan belligerent character. That’s how he often comes across. What would your message to Australians be? Are we heading for a greater risk of conflict?
His point is that Labor’s is supporting a 10.5% backpacker tax that will be lower than the Australian rate.
We work with many different global leaders of different qualities, characteristics and traits. The Australian people can be assured that the Coalition government is prepared and ready to work with whomever becomes the president of the United States in a positive and constructive way that will further our national interests.
3.53am GMT
Q: A trade war with China, perhaps. If there were – in the case of a Trump presidency – how would Australia respond?
03:53
Australia welcomes China’s peaceful rise. We also acknowledge that the United States has been the guarantor of peace and security and stability in our region. And we would certainly appeal to any incoming administration for the United States to maintain that role.
Six MPs have been thrown out so far by Mr Speaker. He is cranky today.
3.51am GMT
03:51
3.50am GMT
03:50
Chris Bowen to Scott Morrison: It has been revealed today that the NSW Liberal government has lobbied credit ratings agencies to defend their AAA rating in anticipation of the commonwealth losing its AAA credit rating. Is the Turnbull government so ... incompetent that even Mike Baird has lost confidence in this treasurer’s ability to defend Australia’s AAA rating?
Morrison says Labor’s debt is to blame.
That is the approach of those opposite, when they sit on these benches, they carelessly engage in reckless spending, drive up taxes, drive up debt, drive up a deficit and as a result, they have placed the nation’s finances in the position that we inherited as a government.
This is quite something in the same day in the context of the backpacker tax.
Updated
Updated
at 3.54am GMT
at 5.43am GMT
3.43am GMT
5.27am GMT
03:43
05:27
Shorten to Turnbull: The prime minister has praised the action taken by his special minister of state in August 2016 to investigation Bob Day’s eligibility to sit in the Senate. Given that the special minister relied upon the same information that his minister for finance had back in February 2016, why didn’t the minister for finance take the same action back then that the minister for state took in August 2016?
Bishop was not surprised at the likely win, she always thought it would be “competitive”.
Turnbull refuses to answer and says again, see the special minister’s statement in the Senate on Monday.
She says the challenge for the new president is to bring the country together.
Bishop says Australia will be working with the transition team to ensure Australia’s interests are enhanced.
The transition team, whomever is the president, has a significant task ahead of them putting together an administration. There are about 4,000 politically nominated positions that have to be filled. So, we will continue to work with the Obama Administration during the transition period but remain closely engaged, as much as we can, with their transition teams, to look at issues of foreign and domestic policy that would affect Australia.
5.21am GMT
05:21
Julie Bishop hopes the TPP passes before new president takes office
The foreign minister does not expect there to be any change to the Australia-US free trade agreement.
Should there be a Donald Trump presidency, then the likelihood that there could be a majority of Republicans in the House and the Senate increases.
If that were to be the case with Republican majorities in the house and the Senate, we could see the end of the gridlock that has bedevilled United States politics for such a long time.
In relation to the TPP, it’s my understanding that the Obama administration intends to pass the TPP into law during the transition period, that so-called lame-duck period between 9 November and midday on 20 January. So, we are hopeful that the Obama administration, through President Obama, can pass the TPP.
