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Peter Dutton's comments on Lebanese migrants 'loud, lazy disrespect', says Bill Shorten – question time live | Peter Dutton's comments on Lebanese migrants 'loud, lazy disrespect', says Bill Shorten – question time live |
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Earlier Paul Karp reported on the One Nation split in a senate vote. The vote was on superannuation: Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts voted with the Greens, while Brian Burston and Rod Culleton voted with Labor and the government. | |
Hanson and Culleton were absent during Question time. Burston and Roberts were in the senate. | |
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There was a government question on electricity supply and then another Murray Darling question. | |
Shorten to Turnbull: I refer to the Deputy Prime Minister’s letter of 17 November indicating to the SA Government, indicating that the Government would abandon its obligation to deliver 450 gigalitres of water to the Murray-Darling Basin through efficiency measures. Does the Deputy Prime Minister’s letter reflect Government policy? | |
The Leader of the Opposition could you assist us by showing where in the letter does the word “abandonment” is used? Not once. | |
Turnbull says the government supports the plan but the plan has conditions which the government must adhere to. | |
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Labor’s Tony Burke to Malcolm Turnbull: When the deputy prime minister personally insisted on receiving the water portfolio, did he keep secret from the prime minister his intention to undermine the additional 450 gigalitres on the Murray-Darling Basin plan? Did the prime minister have any idea prior to Friday that his deputy had put in writing that the basin plan wouldn’t be completed and since then, has the prime minister in any way reprimanded the deputy prime minister for free ranging on the basin plan? | |
(These two are both former water ministers.) | |
Turnbull says Burke’s question amounts to one misrepresentation after another. He says the clause about the requirement for no negative impact on communities comes from the 2012 version of the Murray Darling Basin plan, which Tony Burke oversaw. | |
This is the plan the honourable member promulgated as minister and the section to which I referred is in his plan and that is part of the plan to which we are committed. | |
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A government question to social services minister Christian Porter on the improvement of the domestic violence hotline. | |
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Government threatening to sue over use of Medicare logo on Save Medicare website | |
Tony Burke to Malcolm Turnbull: Can the prime minister confirm his government has threatened to sue Mark Rogers, a Sydney grandfather, over his use of the Medicare logo on his Save Medicare website? Will the government be threatening legal action against the Liberal party, the member for Ford, the minister for trade, the member for Bonner and the health minister who have all used the Medicare logo in their own political material? | |
Turnbull says yes to the substantive question. | |
That litigation is as he has described. | |
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Peter Dutton gets a government question on securing borders and third-party settlements. He says the US Homeland Security department has been out to work out rapid screening methods for the refugees taken into Australia. But most of the answer goes to whacking Labor on asylum seekers. | |
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Not happy, Bowers. | |
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Labor to Turnbull: I refer to the video of a Brisbane 7-Eleven employee being forced to return half her wages to her employer in cash. As a result of this cashback scam, staff are paid $11 an hour below the minimum wage. Given the prime minister’s own ministerial standards requires ministers to act with the highest standard of integrity, how can the prime minister possibly justify his ongoing holdings in managed funds which invest in 7-Eleven? | |
Turnbull says his managed funds are managed by an external advisor at arms’ length, much like a superannuation fund. He says to Labor, if you want to go there, check what all MPs superannuation funds invest in. | |
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Next government question is on unions. | |
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Labor to Malcolm Turnbull: The member for Mallee said the deputy prime minister was right to abandon the bipartisan commitment for an additional 450 gigalitres in the Murray-Darling Basin plan, saying “SA will get more water than it can actually handle”. Is it the position of the government that the basin plan delivers more water than SA can actually handle? | |
Turnbull quotes section 7.17 of the basin plan. | |
What it makes very clear is that it must be neutral or improved socioeconomic outcomes to be associated with the removal or the conversion of water from consumptive to environmental uses. That is what is in the plan. That is what the plan says. Nobody is saying it is easy. I think it was Mark Twain who said whisky is for drinking and water is for fighting over. | |
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A government question to health minister Sussan Ley on union regulation. | |
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Chris Bowen to Malcolm Turnbull: Yesterday the minister for revenue said she wanted to lift superannuation funds to the same standards as the banks. Is the former NSW Liberal leader and chairman of Industry Super Australia Peter Collins accurately describing Government policy when he says “If super funds were responsible for failures in financial advice, failure to pass on interest rates cuts and remuneration and other forms of profit gauging by banks, there would have been a Royal Commission into super funds in a flash”. | |
Turnbull: | |
The honourable member knows very well that the Government’s sought to ensure that there are independent directors on industry super funds. That is hardly a radical proposal. This has been resisted by a number of the vested interests associated with the industry super funds where, in many cases, as the honourable member knows, the directors are drawn solely from the employers and the unions. All we are seeking into is to install what is regarded as corporate governance 101 in the rest of the corporate world. The honourable member should take care to represent the interests of the members as opposed to once again representing the interests of union bosses who are very happy to sit in those well paid directorships. | |
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Bob Katter invokes the spirit of the Magna Carta during a question to Barnaby Joyce #QT @gabriellechan @GuardianAus pic.twitter.com/8U3lm5Axj8 | Bob Katter invokes the spirit of the Magna Carta during a question to Barnaby Joyce #QT @gabriellechan @GuardianAus pic.twitter.com/8U3lm5Axj8 |
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Defence industry minister Christopher Pyne gets a government question on the registered organisations bill that passed this week. | Defence industry minister Christopher Pyne gets a government question on the registered organisations bill that passed this week. |
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Tanya Plibersek to Kelly O’Dwyer: It has been revealed that Australia’s biggest banks will have to pay almost $180 million in compensation because they spent years charging over 200 customers fees for services that they didn’t actually receive. Is this what the minister meant when she said she wanted to lift superannuation funds to the same standards as banks? Does the minister really want superannuation account holders to be treated the way banks treat their customers? | |
This relates to Gareth Hutchens’ story yesterday about a speech O’Dwyer gave to the superannuation industry. | |
They [super funds] think it is acceptable that they have lower governance standards than that that currently applies to banks and life insurance companies. It is ridiculous. It is ridiculous to think that millions of Australians who have their money in superannuation funds would have funds that have lower governance standards than that currently applying to banks and to life insurance companies. It is not actually something that we have dreamt up on this side of the house. There was a review that was undertaken under Labor’s watch by Jeremy Cooper, a hand-picked person from Labor for the job, who concluded that the governance standard for superannuation funds was not up to the mark. | |
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Shorten to Turnbull: Today ratings agency Standard & Poor’s warned Australia’s AAA credit rating will be at risk unless the government stands by its commitment to a surplus in 2021. On this basis, why is the prime minister still persisting with his $50bn tax handout to big business when a ratings downgrade will push up the mortgage repayments for Australian homeowners? | Shorten to Turnbull: Today ratings agency Standard & Poor’s warned Australia’s AAA credit rating will be at risk unless the government stands by its commitment to a surplus in 2021. On this basis, why is the prime minister still persisting with his $50bn tax handout to big business when a ratings downgrade will push up the mortgage repayments for Australian homeowners? |
Turnbull: | Turnbull: |
Turning to the ratings agencies, they have been absolutely crystal clear their concern is that the government’s budget will not be passed through the parliament because of the reckless opposition of the Labor party. That is what their concern is. They recognise that we have a plan, we have an economic plan, which sets out a path towards a budget surplus. | Turning to the ratings agencies, they have been absolutely crystal clear their concern is that the government’s budget will not be passed through the parliament because of the reckless opposition of the Labor party. That is what their concern is. They recognise that we have a plan, we have an economic plan, which sets out a path towards a budget surplus. |
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In the Senate: Greens senator Nick McKim has asked the attorney general, George Brandis, whether immigration minister Peter Dutton’s comments about letting Lebanese immigrants to Australia being a “mistake” had harmed deradicalisation efforts. | In the Senate: Greens senator Nick McKim has asked the attorney general, George Brandis, whether immigration minister Peter Dutton’s comments about letting Lebanese immigrants to Australia being a “mistake” had harmed deradicalisation efforts. |
Brandis replies: | Brandis replies: |
That is certainly not the case ... nothing Mr Dutton has said has in any way prejudiced or compromised that engagement. There has been no suggestion from [the national security] agencies or my department to that effect. | That is certainly not the case ... nothing Mr Dutton has said has in any way prejudiced or compromised that engagement. There has been no suggestion from [the national security] agencies or my department to that effect. |
He says the Australian government and its agencies work in “in close collaboration with Australia’s Muslim leadership” to counter “the siren song of terrorism recruiters … who would lure their youth onto the path of self-destruction”. | He says the Australian government and its agencies work in “in close collaboration with Australia’s Muslim leadership” to counter “the siren song of terrorism recruiters … who would lure their youth onto the path of self-destruction”. |
McKim then quotes Asio director, Duncan Lewis, who told Senate estimates last month that “comments about members of Islamic faith being unwelcome here made engagement with Islamic community more difficult”. | McKim then quotes Asio director, Duncan Lewis, who told Senate estimates last month that “comments about members of Islamic faith being unwelcome here made engagement with Islamic community more difficult”. |
Brandis replies that Lewis “wasn’t asked about Dutton’s remark” and he had met Lewis as recently as yesterday and he did not express concern about the immigration minister’s comments. | Brandis replies that Lewis “wasn’t asked about Dutton’s remark” and he had met Lewis as recently as yesterday and he did not express concern about the immigration minister’s comments. |
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