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| Labor says Coalition's lifetime ban on asylum seekers would affect thousands – politics live | Labor says Coalition's lifetime ban on asylum seekers would affect thousands – politics live |
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| Plibersek to Turnbull: Yesterday, the minister representing the minister for education said that the $1.84m grant to a college linked to former Senator Day “went through all the normal processes”. Can the Prime Minister outline what these “normal processes” were? | |
| Turnbull flicks the question to Pyne. | |
| Pyne says there is no financial involvement between Bob Day and the North East Vocational College. | |
| 3.21am GMT | |
| 03:21 | |
| Greens MP Adam Bandt to Turnbull: Since the election,you have attacked renewable energy and defended coal, proposed permanent bans on refugees coming to Australia seeking our help. Now you are caving in to Senator Pauline Hanson and the Donald Trump’s in your party on race hate laws. Will you rule out allowing Donald Trump-style hate speech to flourish in Australia by changing the law to make it easier to say racist things? Are you now so beholden to the far right that you are letting Pauline Hanson write your policy? Prime Minister, do you actually believe in this Trump-style agenda or are you just content with being the poor man’s Tony Abbott? | |
| Because parliamentarians are supposed to refer to titles rather than names, speaker Tony Smith calls him out on this. | |
| I have cautioned many members on this and I have made it clear I am not going to keep cautioning them continuously,the member for Gellibrand learnt this in the 90 second statements, pity he is not here to hear it now. Members will refer to members by their correct titles. I am not allowing an opportunity to rephrase the question. I am moving to the next question. | |
| Speaker Smith refuses to let him have the question which is unheard of over using a name - in this case “Tony Abbott”. I have certainly never seen anyone lose a question like that. | |
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| Dreyfus to Turnbull: is the prime minister aware that the attorney general’s 37 new appointments to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal included Liberal donors, former Liberal MPs, failed Liberal candidates and Liberal party operatives, such as Saxon Rice, John Sosso, Nicholas McGowan and Bruce McCarthy. Is this what the prime minister meant when he referred to “excellent qualifications”? | |
| Turnbull says if you have any allegations, raise them. | |
| Then he segues to new Labor senator Kimberley Kitching. | |
| Did the leader of the opposition satisfy himself that contrary to the finding of the Heydon royal commission, she was truthful in her evidence? What did the leader of the opposition do to satisfy himself that the royal commission had no basis for referring her conduct to the Director of Public Prosecutions for investigation, consideration for bringing criminal charges against her? Kimberley Kitching’s conduct has been the subject of findings of a royal commission, presided over by a retired high court judge. | |
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| Shorten to Turnbull: On 19 October, the prime minister defended the attorney general’s 37 new appointments to the AAT, saying “I have no doubt that all the persons appointed were excellently qualified.” Given there was no merits-based selection process, no advice from the department, no advertising of position, simply handpicked by the attorney general, what exactly were the excellent qualifications that justified these people receiving jobs paying up to $370,000 a year? | |
| Turnbull says he will send Shorten their resumes. | |
| Second government question is to Peter Dutton, allowing “Labor weak on border security” answer. | |
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| Second question (Dixer) to Turnbull on border security and lifetime ban bill. | |
| We know how serious a threat irregular migration is. The foreign minister spoke yesterday of John Kerry saying it was viewed in Europe as an existential threat. When I was at the United Nations only a few weeks ago, one leader after another from Europe talked to me about the extraordinary threat they faced from irregular migration. What it does to promote intolerance. What it does to undermine a civil discourse. What it does to undermine their union, maintaining our border is absolutely essential. | |
| When we brought in this legislation before the house this week, we asked the Labor Party to do no more than prove again that they are on that unity ticket. To do no more than send with us the strongest, most unequivocal message to the people smugglers that you will not succeed and they have failed us. They have failed Australia. They have failed the integrity of our borders. | |
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| Dreyfus to Turnbull: Does the prime minister still support the direction that was issued by the attorney general? | |
| Turnbull: | |
| The attorney general has my full confidence, the committee, as you know, the majority report was written by his political opponents and should be viewed in that light. | |
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| Mark Latham addresses the crowd at #TrumpsAussieMates pic.twitter.com/covrkuuVIl | |
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| Re the US election: | |
| Rest of the world rn #ElectionNight pic.twitter.com/IEE04dBGJe | |
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| The American embassy always throws a party in Canberra on election day at the National Press Club. The knees-up generally attracts a crowd of thinktank folks, diplomats and defence people, as well as journalists and the odd politician. Kim Beazley, Australia’s former ambassador to the US, said a few words just before I arrived. My arrival coincided with the first run of election results. It’s fair to say the mood inside the room had switched from cheer to mild apprehension. Small huddles huddled around the big screen watching the talking heads doing the talking heads business. Others hit the buffet, which was laden with donuts. If Donald Trump wins this contest there will not be enough donuts in the world, will there? You can take that as a comment. | |
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| Nearly question time. MPs will have to be dragged from their televisions into the chamber ... | |
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| 02:48 | 02:48 |
| The Donald is unloved. But is he? | The Donald is unloved. But is he? |
| This is a very red map in the live election results. | This is a very red map in the live election results. |
| 2.34am GMT | 2.34am GMT |
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| Posted without comment #PoliticsLive @gabriellechan pic.twitter.com/PRlFNcU4A9 | Posted without comment #PoliticsLive @gabriellechan pic.twitter.com/PRlFNcU4A9 |
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| Meanwhile, Katharine Murphy has decamped to the US embassy function for the election. | Meanwhile, Katharine Murphy has decamped to the US embassy function for the election. |
| Heavy carbo loading at the US embassy function as the results trickle in #PoliticsLive @gabriellechan #ElectionNight pic.twitter.com/tAGr0ryxpS | Heavy carbo loading at the US embassy function as the results trickle in #PoliticsLive @gabriellechan #ElectionNight pic.twitter.com/tAGr0ryxpS |
| 2.29am GMT | 2.29am GMT |
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| Labor MP Warren Snowden is talking about the children overboard affair. Snowden was the one who received a large file of pictures that proved asylum seeker parents were not throwing their children overboard to get help from the navy. | Labor MP Warren Snowden is talking about the children overboard affair. Snowden was the one who received a large file of pictures that proved asylum seeker parents were not throwing their children overboard to get help from the navy. |
| Snowden says the government’s characterisation of Labor as wanting to help people smugglers is wrong. | Snowden says the government’s characterisation of Labor as wanting to help people smugglers is wrong. |
| Liberal MPs are heckling him. | Liberal MPs are heckling him. |
| Don’t be a clown. We have seen in this place people who are so insincere. | Don’t be a clown. We have seen in this place people who are so insincere. |
| The Australian people are wise to you. What, they are not? | The Australian people are wise to you. What, they are not? |
| I can tell you brother. They are wise to you. They’ve pinged you ... | I can tell you brother. They are wise to you. They’ve pinged you ... |
| We are saying, don’t come and visit Uluru, though we’d love to have you. | We are saying, don’t come and visit Uluru, though we’d love to have you. |
| You mugs. | You mugs. |
| You absolute mugs. What an insult the intelligence of the Australian community you are. | You absolute mugs. What an insult the intelligence of the Australian community you are. |
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| Stuart Roberts is ramping up the rhetoric now. He has accused Bill Shorten of telling: | Stuart Roberts is ramping up the rhetoric now. He has accused Bill Shorten of telling: |
| a great big bald-faced lie at the last election. | a great big bald-faced lie at the last election. |
| Roberts is asked to withdraw. It is unparliamentary language. | Roberts is asked to withdraw. It is unparliamentary language. |
| Roberts says Shorten had characterised the asylum seeker policy positions of Labor and the Coalition as separated by a cigarette paper. | Roberts says Shorten had characterised the asylum seeker policy positions of Labor and the Coalition as separated by a cigarette paper. |
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| Stuart Roberts, the former defence material minister who resigned after it was found he breached ministerial standards, is arguing the case for the lifetime ban. | Stuart Roberts, the former defence material minister who resigned after it was found he breached ministerial standards, is arguing the case for the lifetime ban. |
| The Coalition’s policy has stopped the boats ... these are facts. | The Coalition’s policy has stopped the boats ... these are facts. |
| Roberts said he knows because he worked for the former immigration minister Scott Morrison in opposition and planned the policy. | Roberts said he knows because he worked for the former immigration minister Scott Morrison in opposition and planned the policy. |
| Roberts says serious left people (such as the former Labor immigration minister Nick Bolkus) put regional processing in place under Labor. They understood the evils of people smugglers, says Roberts. | Roberts says serious left people (such as the former Labor immigration minister Nick Bolkus) put regional processing in place under Labor. They understood the evils of people smugglers, says Roberts. |
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| at 2.20am GMT | at 2.20am GMT |