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George Christensen: 'We needed some Trump' in our political leadership – politics live
Frydenberg knows calling Trump a dropkick was 'not helpful', says Barnaby Joyce – politics live
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Barnaby Joyce was also asked about his own comments on Trump’s policies.
Q: You did say some of Donald Trump’s policies were nasty. Do you stand by those comments?
People have a right to talk about policy. That’s what politicians do – they discuss policies. But you must remove yourself from an argument approach and talking about personalities. Leave that to the United States.
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The Nats are the obvious party challenged by One Nation in the Brexit-Trump axis, not to mention Labor on the city fringes. Barnaby Joyce is asked if he is worried about it.
He says the National party have the highest number of ministers in cabinet since Arthur Fadden, a Country party leader and briefly prime minister in 1941. (I will try to check the numbers on this shortly.) But Joyce also has some philosophical points about his constituency. This is the stuff he is good at, IMO. If you get hot under the collar about this statement, dear reader – you are not the people he is talking to here.
Brand Barnaby.
We have now the largest number of cabinet ministers since Arty Fadden was the leader. We are actually building the party back up.
I was always having a yarn with Fiona, my deputy, my friend, guide and colleague, and said: “When we started, all they used to talk about was closing the National party down, now we are in the ascendancy again and growing again.”
We do that by working hard on the ground. We never take our people for granted. We make sure we are Friday night pub, Saturday CWA, get out, talk to the people, stay humble. Listen to their concerns and do your very best down here to convey them. We don’t want to be the party of high colour, we want to be the party of hard work. That’s precisely what we do.
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Barnaby Joyce: I'm not a God botherer but cheers to Pence for bringing in the Christians
Barnaby Joyce says the vice-president elect Mike Pence did a great job. He has an affinity – as a fellow deputy.
He was always a strong reason where a large constituency in the United States was attracted to the Republican vote. They were attracted to that Republican vote because of his strong belief, especially to be quite frank, his Christian values. I’m not a God botherer, I’m just a little old boy from the bush but you have to acknowledge that the work that vice president-elect Mike Pence did and I think it is only fit and proper that I acknowledge him in his new role.
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Barnaby Joyce says it doesn’t look good for the Trans Pacific Partnership.
Barnaby Joyce says it doesn’t look good for the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
In the absence of the TPP, Joyce says the government will continue to push for bilateral deals.
In the absence of the TPP, Joyce says the government will continue to push for bilateral deals.
Joyce is not worried about the Trump victory. He would be more worried if it didn’t rain.
Joyce is not worried about the Trump victory. He would be more worried if it didn’t rain.
The one thing you should never do in any country - we don’t like people telling us how our country runs. In fact, we really look poorly on it. Of course we should not be telling another country how their own democratic process runs. They had their own reasons of why they vote. It is a democracy. The result is in.
The one thing you should never do in any country – we don’t like people telling us how our country runs. In fact, we really look poorly on it. Of course we should not be telling another country how their own democratic process runs. They had their own reasons of why they vote. It is a democracy. The result is in.
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Barnaby: "Dropkick" not so good. Josh knows it.
Barnaby: "Dropkick" not so good. Josh knows it.
Barnaby Joyce says Josh Frydenberg understands he stuffed up by calling Trump a dropkick.
Barnaby Joyce says Josh Frydenberg understands he stuffed up by calling Trump a dropkick.
I think minister Frydenberg is understanding, I don’t know if he made a statement, he understands that was not helpful.
I think minister Frydenberg is understanding, I don’t know if he made a statement, he understands that was not helpful.
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Deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce is speaking on the Trump win.
Deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce is speaking on the Trump win.
This is going to be a time where the dust settles. At this point in time, President Barack Obama remains in office until 20 January. I am absolutely certain that, noting the incredible gravitas of the office, that both President-elect Trump and vice president-elect Pence will be making absolutely certain as they have stated, they will be looking after the American people and guiding them safely into the transition to the new order of government.
This is going to be a time where the dust settles. At this point in time, President Barack Obama remains in office until 20 January. I am absolutely certain that, noting the incredible gravitas of the office, that both President-elect Trump and vice president-elect Pence will be making absolutely certain as they have stated, they will be looking after the American people and guiding them safely into the transition to the new order of government.
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Reality Check.
Reality Check.
So the final numbers for #ElectionDay are:231,556,622 eligible voters46.9% didn't vote25.6% voted Clinton25.5% voted TrumpWow.
So the final numbers for #ElectionDay are:231,556,622 eligible voters46.9% didn't vote25.6% voted Clinton25.5% voted TrumpWow.
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Guardian front page, Thursday 10 November 2016: Trump wins. Now the world waits pic.twitter.com/3BqJZ9lOnF
Guardian front page, Thursday 10 November 2016: Trump wins. Now the world waits pic.twitter.com/3BqJZ9lOnF
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Malcolm Roberts from One Nation is celebrating the Trump victory- "we see this as a wonderful opportunity to restore freedom" #auspol pic.twitter.com/pAKXRF9Doe
Malcolm Roberts from One Nation is celebrating the Trump victory- "we see this as a wonderful opportunity to restore freedom" #auspol pic.twitter.com/pAKXRF9Doe
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Housekeeping.
Housekeeping.
The Senate and the lower house are sitting at 9.30
The Senate and the lower house are sitting at 9.30
In the House, the substantive debate will be around:
In the House, the substantive debate will be around:
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Katharine Murphy has a thoughtful analysis of the Trump tidal wave washing across Australia.
Trump has vowed to junk the TPP – should it pass by some miracle during the lame duck session – and impose tariffs on goods and services imported from China, provoking the biggest player in Australia’s neighbourhood, and potentially stoking a trade war between the two largest economies in the world.
Trump’s vision for regional engagement, articulated this week by two of his campaign policy advisers, is heavy on military assertiveness, light on diplomacy and economic integration.
Alexander Gray and Peter Navarro wrote this week the US navy was “perhaps the greatest source of regional stability in Asia. The mere initiation of the Trump naval program will reassure our allies that the United States remains committed in the long term to its traditional role as guarantor of the liberal order in Asia”.
If that pre-campaign positioning comes to pass, Australia will come under pressure on a range of fronts, most acutely over military activity in the South China Sea, and also over whether American military assets could be positioned on Australian soil, a development China would consider a diplomatic affront.
Nothing at all is certain, but Australian politics has elected to reassure rather than startle.
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The writers of @TheSimpsons have a lot to answer for. #TrumpPresident pic.twitter.com/KaqzNjTFwC
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Q: Julie Bishop, do you think a woman can ever be elected president of the United States?
Well, they said an African-American would never be elected president of the United States and President Obama served for two terms. So, of course, the American dream is that anyone born in the US can end up as a president of the United States. So, they have a new president.
Bishop is asked about Tony Burke’s comments earlier on Sky, suggesting we should call out racism and misogyny when it happens, no matter who it is.
She will not denounce Trump’s views on women or Muslims. She says it’s not constructive to provide a commentary on leaders’ traits.
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Paris a go-go
Katharine Murphy
Morning, everyone.
Canberra today will still be agog with the events in Washington. Trump will still be a focal point. But in amid that we expect Malcolm Turnbull to announce Australia will ratify the Paris climate agreement.
Given that Trump has signalled that he’s no fan of international climate action, and he’s not sure climate change is actually happening, Australia’s gesture of affirmation will be welcomed by people who remain fans of international climate action, and are of the view (courtesy of the wealth of facts and evidence in the public domain) that climate change is happening.
It presumably will not be welcomed by people who hold the opposite view. This gesture of ratification has been a while coming round. The agreement was ticked off recently by the joint standing committee on treaties. The One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts made a submission to that inquiry saying Australia should not sign up, because, you know, climate change is a hoax.
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Australia, it's time to stop your sobbing
Chrissie is the only answer to this.
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Julie Bishop: The world is certainly a different place
Q: Is the world a less secure place now with Donald Trump as president?
It is certainly a different place because any US presidential election has implications for the globe. But this is a momentous change and we see it as an opportunity for Australia to work very closely and constructively with the new president and his administration to ensure that we maintain US presence and leadership in the Asia-Pacific. That is in our national interest.
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Friends, welcome to a post-truth world
Cory Bernardi has taken to Facebook to bag out establishment parties (like the one he is a member of). He helpfully provides a link to his Australian Conservatives movement.
Friends, the stunning election victory by Donald Trump last night is validation of all I have been warning about for many years.
The movement against the establishment political parties, who have consistently and wilfully ignored the mainstream majority in favour of their own power and self-interest, is moving across the globe.
We need to change politics and unite Australian Conservatives to make that change for our Nation. If you want to be part of the movement please register your interest at Australian Conservatives.
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Let's see ... what do we need now? More hate speech?
Tony Burke finished with a point to bring it home in Australian terms. By linking it to the push to change section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.
I’ve gotta say, it’s an extraordinary time for Australia to be thinking more hate speech would be a good thing.
There is a question that’s always there for Australia: are you the ally that an American administration might want or are you the ally that an American administration in fact needs? We are well engaged in our region. We are a smart, sensible nation. And we should call out bigotry and appalling behaviour whenever we see it, and should do that fearlessly.
This Trump thing does force Australia to consider what it is that we want to be. A section of America has spoken about what it wants. What is it that Australians want?
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Tony Burke: in this country, boasting about sex assault would end your career
Labor’s Tony Burke has appeared on Sky News with some thoughtful comments. He makes the point that we have to work on the basis that the alliance is unchanged and deeper than any one administration.
But his main message is we cannot change who we are.
A lot of people I guess feel today like they’re waking up with a pretty bad hangover trying to piece together what on earth happened the night before.
In terms of what happened in the campaign itself, I think we’ve got to make sure that as a country, we don’t change who we are. We shouldn’t be so desperate in terms of trying to win favour from the new president-elect that we undermine our values.
We shouldn’t be a country that forgets that in this country if you boasted about sexually assaulting women it would mark the end of your political career. Over there, it’s just marked the launch of one.
These are differences where we should not give ground. Lots of titles go with being president of the United States – being called leader of the free world is not automatic. A world where women are assaulted, people with disability are ridiculed and people are discriminated against based on their faith or the colour of their skin is not a free world.
Lots of analysis will happen now about what were the economic issues, what were the issues about anti-establishment, but race and prejudice were part of it. We should not gloss over that or pretend that they weren’t: they were. We should call that out. And we should make sure that we don’t in any way change who we are.
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Cory and George warn the Trump revolution is coming
Good morning.
This morning there is a lump in the gut of the body politic. It is still digesting the words, “President Trump”.
The Daily Telegraph editor Christopher Dore channelled the zeitgeist, from both sides of the divide.
Front page of The Daily Telegraph. #Elections2016 #USElection2016 #auspol pic.twitter.com/hmv3GJXDo7
The LNP MP George Christensen is the oracle this morning. He says the Trump victory marks a fundamental realignment of world politics.
Perhaps we needed some Trump in our political leadership when Ford announced [they were closing] while Julia Gillard was PM and under the Liberal National Coalition that Holden announced it was going.
We are starting to see that rise in this country, we saw the start at the last election. We have already seen a taste of it and there will be more to come in elections to follow.
The Liberal senator Cory Bernardi was cock-a-hoop. Here are his main points.
Best get cracking. Speak to me in the thread or on the twits @gabriellechan or on Facebook. Mike Bowers is lurking, @mpbowers. Normally an early coffee is against my religion but I think I will crack before 8am today. I blame Donald Trump.
