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| Rod Culleton's high court case set for December – politics live | Rod Culleton's high court case set for December – politics live |
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| 3.32am GMT | |
| 03:32 | |
| Trade and tourism minister Steve Ciobo gets a government question on the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast. | |
| 3.30am GMT | |
| 03:30 | |
| A government question on alleged union corruption to Christopher Pyne. | |
| Labor’s Chris Bowen to Scott Morrison: If the government drops its plan for a big business tax cut, which costs the budget $50bn, will it be more or less likely that the budget will be in balance in 2021? | |
| Scott Morrison is not going to engage in hypotheticals. | |
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| at 3.33am GMT | |
| 3.25am GMT | |
| 03:25 | |
| Greens MP Adam Bandt to Josh Frydenberg, energy and environment minister: At the recent global climate summit, the US climate envoy said because of rapid melting in Antarctica, current levels of global warming can see 1.5m of sea level rise by 2050. Even if the world stopped all pollution tomorrow, by the time a child born today reaches her 30s she would live in a world where the sea is 1.5m higher than now. This isn’t a Green group or climate activists saying this, it’s the US Government. Given our coastal capital cities, what would be the impacts on Australian’s homes, businesses and infrastructure if sea levels rise by 1. 5m? | |
| Frydenberg does not answer the question . | |
| It’s OK for the Member for Melbourne to put his sandals upon the seat, sip his soy latte and sit in the streets of Brunswick and say it’s the end of coal because he put out a press release saying it was the end of coal, to celebrate the loss of jobs in the La Trobe Valley for the people of Hazelwood. Shame on him. | |
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| 03:20 | |
| Labor’s Chris Bowen to Barnaby Joyce: Reports today confirm that MYEFO will be released on December 19 and the deficit will be up. Why has the treasurer refused to confirm the government’s own budget papers, which show a return to surplus in 2021? Isn’t this the case the government is so chaotic it would prefer to keep its $50bn tax cut for big business rather than retain Australia’s triple-A credit rating? | |
| Bluster follows and then Joyce flicks the question to Scott Morrison, who then says: | |
| What I said on ABC Radio this morning is we’ll return to surplus when expenditure is less than revenue. | |
| Lols. No answer appears. | |
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| at 3.25am GMT | |
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| 03:15 | |
| The government question is on the CFMEU. | |
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| 03:14 | |
| Labor’s Jenny Macklin to Barnaby Joyce: Under this government’s latest cuts to paid parental leave, a woman working at Coles would lose 10 weeks of paid parental leave, a loss of around $6,700. Can the acting PM explain to mums working at Coles why he thinks that cutting the amount of time they can spend at home breast-feeding their newborn babies is fair? | |
| Barnaby Joyce: | |
| We’re doing so much in this nation to make sure that we are both fair and we are responsible. But we are fair and responsible because we acknowledge, we acknowledge that the task that was left to us by a Labor government, a previous Labor government that left us hundreds of billions of dollars in debt. | |
| Joyce flicks the question to the social services minister, Christian Porter. | |
| Porter accuses Macklin of “unhitching her wagon from the truth”. He says Macklin’s suggestion that women on a median income of $43,000 would be affected by changes to the paid parental leave scheme were not correct. | |
| Not only have you unhitched your wagon from the truth, you have taken a fact and deliberately stated it opposite to try and scare mums into believing they would be affected when they would not be. | |
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| at 3.16am GMT | |
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| Bob has arrived. | |
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| at 3.11am GMT | |
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| Barnaby Joyce, the deputy prime minister and Nationals leader, is leading the government as Malcolm Turnbull is still away for Apec. | |
| Tanya Plibersek to Scott Morrison: I refer to an FOI request about paid parental leave submitted to the treasurer’s office when he was social services minister. This request was rejected because it would have taken four days to consider the 550 pages of insults that the treasurer or his colleagues describing working women as double-dippers, fraudsters. Will he apologise for describing working mums in such abusive terms? | |
| Then the speaker asks her to rephrase. She questions Christian Porter, the social services minister, instead. | |
| Porter says neither he nor Scott Morrison have used those terms and he is not surprised at the refusal of the request. | |
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| Question time coming up at 2pm. | Question time coming up at 2pm. |
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| Horses for courses: Bob Katter turns up to support Rod Culleton at high court | Horses for courses: Bob Katter turns up to support Rod Culleton at high court |
| Paul Karp | Paul Karp |
| Bob Katter has appeared outside the high court to express support for Rod Culleton. In an impromptu press conference, he said the case sets a bad precedent. | |
| Katter said that the One Nation party leader, Pauline Hanson, had not supported Culleton, because she agreed to the referral to the high court, did not back his proposed banking royal commission and was continuing the government’s attack on trade unionism through the Australian Building and Construction Commission bill. | |
| Asked if he was encouraging Culleton to join the Katter Australia party, Katter revealed a third party had approached Culleton without Katter’s knowledge but received a “flat knockback”. That was because Culleton was “not a rat” and KAP didn’t “take rats” at any rate. | |
| But Katter then appeared to equivocate, noting that if One Nation “ratted on Culleton” that would be a “horse of a different colour”. | But Katter then appeared to equivocate, noting that if One Nation “ratted on Culleton” that would be a “horse of a different colour”. |
| After a delay waiting for Bob, Culleton exited the high court. Asked if he would jump ship from One Nation, he replied: | |
| Well I had a shave this morning and I didn’t see any whiskers – so I’m not a rat. | Well I had a shave this morning and I didn’t see any whiskers – so I’m not a rat. |
| Culleton said he would stay with One Nation “for now” but, when asked to rule out jumping ship, he said: “If I was to go, it wouldn’t be my choice … it would be up to others.” | |
| Culleton said he wasn’t sure if he would continue to self-represent or appoint counsel but criticised the prospect of the attorney general, George Brandis, appointing counsel to give his side of the argument a run. | |
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