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Turnbull questioned on effect of Donald Trump's election win – question time live
Turnbull questioned on effect of Donald Trump's election win – politics live
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Labor’s Nick Champion to Malcolm Turnbull: This morning when asked about the policies the government has put in place that saw auto jobs lost in SA, the deputy prime minister said “There are not many car plants in National Party seats. Who are we looking after? Our people.” Why should South Australian workers trust the Prime Minister with their jobs when his own deputy admits he doesn’t care. Isn’t it a case the divisions in this government mean the prime minister is only focused on one job - your own?
George Brandis: new solicitor general should have a clean slate
Turnbull:
The reality is that Australia’s greatest opportunity is an advanced manufacturing. The reality is that the most advanced manufacturing isin the Defence sector. The reality is that it was the Labor Party that abandoned the workers at Osborne, that abandoned defence industry. Six years and nothing was done.
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Paul Karp
Paul Karp
Greens leader, Richard Di Natale, has moved in the Senate to suspend standing orders and a motion for the Senate to call on the government “to reconsider the Australia-US alliance in light of the results of the US presidential election”.
In Senate Question Time, the attorney general George Brandis has been asked about his decision on Thursday to rescind his order giving him control over access to advice from the solicitor general.
Labor is not impressed:
Brandis said that he had rescinded the direction because acting solicitor general Tom Howe believed the new solicitor general “should be greeted with a clean slate”.
The Greens want Australia to renounce ANZUS without notice, during #QT, while Obama is still President. Very silly stuff. https://t.co/X98OATqJRE
Brandis maintained the direction was a mere matter of “housekeeping” that did not change the process reflected in the Legal Officers Act.
Defence minister, Marise Payne, said the government has always said whoever the US people chose, Australia would work with their choice.
The attorney general said the process for how the solicitor general is briefed would be discussed when the position is filled shortly.
She said the Anzus treaty is an “enduring and strongest possible commitment” for Australia and the US to defend each other from attack.
Brandis denied the direction was made to target former solicitor general Justin Gleeson and said that it was Labor’s actions that had caused him to appear before the Senate committee and ultimately resign.
One Nation senator, Malcolm Roberts, reveals he has “reached out” to the Trump team.
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I get it, the Greens don’t like the result of the American election result ... Trump’s victory is a victory for freedom.
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America! America!
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God mend thine every flaw.
The Liberal Party’s delegate to the United Nations, Senator Cory Bernardi, has lauded the election of Donald Trump as a movement against the establishment political parties. Is the Prime Minister concerned by the movement against establishment political parties particularly by conservative groups based in SA and what implications does this have for government policy?
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(It was a question we were wondering...)
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Turnbull says it is Labor’s fault that voters are cranky with established political parties in South Australia.
Butter wouldn’t melt.
Nobody has less moral right to talk about workers’ jobs, manufacturing industry than Labor members from SA. You abandoned the workers of SA. You abandoned the workers at Osborne. It was the Liberal Party, the National Party, our Coalition, which has given them hope for an advanced manufacturing future. We did that.
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There was an interesting query from Joel Fitzgibbon at the end of question time. He wants to know, after Barnaby Joyce had to correct Hansard in 2014, he never explained to the house why he had to correct the Hansard.
Now a government question to defence industry minister Christopher Pyne on the defence relationship between Oz and the US.
This relates to the breakdown of Joyce’s relationship with his head of department, Paul Grimes. Eventually Grimes was sacked and only recently we discovered that Grimes wrote suggesting that he could no longer work with Joyce on matters of integrity. Speaker Smith says there are many ways to raise the matter with him outside of this particular time.
Don’t put those relationships at risk through bad judgement, says Pyne.
Write me a letter, the Speaker says.
Drumroll ... Bill Shorten’s poor judgment.
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Labor to foreign minister Julie Bishop: Could the Foreign Minister please advise the House why, in her previous answer, she did not refer to the Deputy Prime Minister describing Donald Trump’s political positions as cruel and nasty, did not refer to the Leader of the House describing the advent of the Trump campaign as terrifying, explain why she didn’t refer to the Minister for Environment describing him as a drop kick or John Howard saying he was too unstable to hold the office, or herself as saying she didn’t see the US as having a global leadership role?
Barnaby Joyce gets a Dixer question on the backpacker tax.
Now we have dropped into this slanging match between who called Donald Trump the worst names.
There was a group that decided that it wasn’t the rate they wanted, and that was Senator Jacqui Lambie who became the leading economic liability of the Australian Labor party. She proposed a different rate, a rate of 10.5%. The problem with 10.5% is it doesn’t create fairness, it creates a mechanism to attract foreign workers into Australia to take Australian jobs.
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I didn’t mention the fact that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition called Israel a rogue State and Ariel Sharon a war criminal. I didn’t mention the fact that the Leader of the Opposition, who presents himself as the alternate Prime Minister of this country, has chosen to denigrate and demean the presidential candidate in another country. This sorry tactic of trying to blame everybody else for his personal failings will not wash.
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Trade minister Steve Ciobo gets a Dixer on the Australian relationship with the United States.
Indi Independent Cathy McGowan to Barnaby Joyce: there are over 100 dairy farm families who live in the valleys of the upper Murray, Mitwa and King Rivers. Up to 60% are in need of assistance and 20% desperate. The government’s emergency dairy support package promised a process of fast-tracking household support allowances but farmers in these valleys are reporting a delay of up to 20 weeks to get assistance. Will the Deputy Prime Minister please commit to holding a round table, preferably in my electorate, to review the process, to increase staff on the ground and allocate additional resources to clear the backlog?
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Joyce talked about the loans available and the recent drop in the concessional rate. He says Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie will hold a round table in McGowan’s seat of Indi.
Labor’s Kate Ellis to Christopher Pyne, representing the education minister: The minister representing the minister for education has repeatedly claimed that the $1.84m grant to a college linked to Bob Day went through the normal processes. Can the prime minister provide any other example where a college was awarded an amount which exceeded their entire annual revenue and will the prime minister now admit this grant was excessive?
It never ceases to surprise me when an answer is actually supplied.
Pyne says yes I can.
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The Campbelltown Junior soccer club in my electorate.
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Labor to Turnbull: Yesterday speaking about the US election, the Minister for Foreign Affairs said “I don’t expect there to be any change to the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement, it hasn’t been mentioned”. Is thePrime Minister aware Donald Trump’s campaign has committed to renegotiating all US Free Trade Agreements? What preparation has the government undertaken in relation to our own Free Trade Agreement with the US and was it raised in our phone call today?
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Turnbull says they did not discuss the US free trade agreement but he does not anticipate any changes.
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More American cooperation questions.
Foreign minister Julie Bishop takes a Dixer that allows her to give Bill Shorten a bollocking over his remarks regarding Trump in which he called some of Trump’s views “barking mad”.
We love Americans.
But not content with the personal vitriol, he went even further and denounced thePresident-elect by saying that he was entirely unsuitable to be the leader of the free world. Then, by publicly predicting a Trump loss, he showed utter disregard for the people of the United States and their democratic process. With his mealy mouthed address today, trying to deflect from the fact he was undermining the relationship with the United States, he once more showed his flawed judgement and his reckless immaturity.
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Dreyfus to Turnbull: I refer to the attorney general’s humiliating backflip on the legal services direction just before question time. Given this backflip follows the attorney general’s litany of scandals, including repeatedly misleading the parliament, appointing over a dozen Liberal cronies to jobs worth up to $370,000 a year, and claiming people have the right to be bigots, what does the attorney general have to do to be sacked?
On the Paris Agreement politics, Katharine Murphy was interesting about the power plays within the Coalition. She wrote about it last Saturday.
Turnbull laughs at the question.
In no rational universe does the Australian government want to be in a position of going to that meeting and telling other countries we don’t intend to ratify the Paris agreement, but nothing is done until it’s done and the process isn’t yet locked down with a cabinet ruling.
I’m not sure if there is anything in the standing orders about unhealthy obsessions or stalking ...
Obviously, this whole play – “look at those dreadful renewables and, oh look, here’s the Paris agreement” – is a lot more complicated than a simple game of bait and switch.
Turnbull says a new solicitor general will be appointed shortly and the attorney general George Brandis will consult with that person.
I wonder if that will be a consultation under the Oxford dictionary definition?
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George Christensen to the immigration minister, Peter Dutton, (triumphantly): Will the minister update the house on the importance of cooperation with the United States on border security, particularly in the wake of the stunning election of the courageous Donald J Trump as president of the USA?
The answer from Dutton is all about the information sharing around border security, including technological advances which have allowed the government to pick up 20 “persons of interest” in the asylum seekers applying from Syria.
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Labor to Turnbull: Speaking about the US election this morning, Senator Ian Macdonald said about Queenslanders at the last election: “They also thought that in the member for Warringah they had someone they could relate to, and I think all those things did impact upon the result and did lead to a bigger-than-expected vote for Pauline Hanson”. Does the prime minister think Queenslanders relate to the member for Warringah in a way they don’t relate to the current prime minister and his government?
Turnbull says there are plenty of commentators who can talk about that.
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As the government is turning up the rhetoric on the US-Australian alliance in the lower house, the Greens were questioning the very same alliance.
Greens senator Nick McKim tells the Senate Australians understand “we cannot automatically be best friends with the US under a Trump presidency”.
It is not business as usual anymore, this has been a seismic geopolitical event.
McKim rattles off Trump sins, including plans to undo the deal that froze Iran’s nuclear program, promising to commit war crimes such as extra-judicial killings in the Middle East, and starting a trade war with China.
We can no longer simply lock in behind the United States like a sycophantic little brother or sister. In the past, the cost of the unquestioning alliance with the US has been disastrous.
McKim cites the Vietnam and Iraq wars, the latter he says created the conditions for Islamic State (Daesh).
