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Peter Dutton's comments on Lebanese migrants 'loud, lazy disrespect', says Bill Shorten – question time live | |
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The first government question is about delivering on promises - union regulations and superannuation. | |
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Shorten to Turnbull: Rosie Batty, the Productivity Commission, the Victorian Royal Commission into family violence have recommended that family violence survivors shouldn’t be cross-examined in court by their abusers. Will the Prime Minister join with Labor to amend the Family Law Act to ensure that vulnerable witnesses are protected during court proceedings? | |
Turnbull gives a fulsome answer: | |
We all understand the cross-examination of a victim by the alleged perpetrator is a very traumatic experience. | |
We are working very closely with the stakeholders in this area, in particular the judges and magistrates in the family courts to progress measures to support vulnerable witnesses. | |
We are establishing integrated duty lawyer and domestic violence support services in the family law courts to improve the support available to victims and that includes assisting them to draft notices of risk and access alternative ways to give evidence. | |
We have also commissioned a bench book which provides guidance for all judicial officers dealing with domestic and family violence, including guidelines for courtroom management to minimise secondary abuse through court processes of those who have experienced family violence. | |
Judges and judicial officers always have a discretion in this area and we are encouraging them to use this very actively to ensure that these distressing circumstances don’t occur. I noted what the honourable member opposite proposed this morning and the funding that he recommended which at first examination would not appear to us to be adequate for the task that he has proposed. | |
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Question time now. First question is on domestic violence. | |
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Scott Morrison: Don't look to Sanders and Corbyn, look to Trump | |
I will just end on one last point from Scott Morrison and Kelly O’Dwyer’s press conference. | |
The discussion got around to the the rest of the government’s agenda, including the corporate tax cuts. | |
The objective is to increase the amount of work people can get, the amount of hours they can get, the amount of wages they can earn and the profits the companies can do. That’s what you do. You don’t squeeze a lemon until you get arthritis. | |
What you do is cut the tax rates particularly for small and medium-sized business to give them to the room to do this. What Labor is doing by blocking this is leaving Australia economically stranded. | |
They are looking to Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn for their tax policy advice. Not where they should be looking, to Theresa May and, indeed, Donald Trump. He announced it after - I understand - we announced our Budget. | |
I’m sure he will give the Australian Government credit for that..Nevertheless, it is a great idea to support investment in jobs. It is a great idea. The Labor Party used to believe in it. | |
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Scott Morrison is asked: How confident are you in bringing a surplus in 20-21? | |
I am as confident as I can be on the basis of the parameter projections in the budget. The real question is – the budget will return to balance where we can be most confident, when the Labor party accepts its economic responsibility to pass the savings that are in this budget. That’s what it boils down to. | |
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Scott Morrison is holding a press conference now. | |
He goes to the Standard & Poors warning about budget repair and the superannuation reforms passing the house. | |
This was the AAP take on S&P: | |
As a global credit rating agency issued yet another warning to Australia about the risk of losing its top tier rating, a leading business group believes the Turnbull government is “trying very hard” to repair the budget. | |
Standard & Poor’s global ratings director Craig Michaels has told a conference in Australia if the budget is returned to surplus in 2020/21 as promised it would still be consistent with the AAA rating. | |
“But if there’s more slippage beyond that then that probably wouldn’t be,” Mr Michaels warned. | |
Scott Morrison is asked about the political pain involved in the superannuation reform, given the harrumphing in the conservative end of the Coalition about cutting back concessions for the wealthy. | |
I think it is a sustainable reform, I think it is a fair reform, I think it is a necessary reform. We have a world-leading superannuation system in this country and this is even more so. Yes, we had to make the case and make the argument, and we had to take it through the parliament, with our colleagues, and work through all of those issues, but that’s the work of government. That’s the work of reform. | |
Much is often written about where’s the reform by commentators. Well, it is looking you right in the face. Today’s reforms passed through the parliament were not easily won but they were important to achieve. | |
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Paul Karp | |
After Pauline Hanson didn’t go to Rodney Culleton’s office at 11:30, he went down to a Cure Cancer Australia BBQ at noon. | |
As soon as he entered the courtyard, Hanson left. | |
Culleton then gave a press conference at which he said he’d hoped to speak to Hanson at the BBQ, wasn’t sure if she’d avoided him, then speculated she may have left because she was “camera shy” or wanted to escape the rain in Canberra. | |
No, she didn’t come to the scheduled 11:30 [meeting] ... I can’t force her to come, she’ll come, well, anyway, she didn’t show up.” | |
Asked why the pair hadn’t met yet, Culleton blamed his tight schedule, Senate divisions and preparing for the challenge in the high court to his eligibility as a senator. He also confirmed he didn’t attend the party room meeting on Wednesday, and said he went to a White Ribbon function instead. | |
I will speak to her – but there’s no big issue ... I might grab Pauline and we just go to a quiet restaurant and do it over a bottle of red wine and talk it through, that’s probably the better environment. | |
A spokesman for Hanson said “we’re hopeful Rod will agree to come to Pauline’s office as requested”. So, it seems a large part of the dispute is who will come to whose office.Culleton said “we’re not a bloc” and noted in one division today the party split 2-2. He said he was “allergic to rules” when asked about the prospect Hanson could demand all correspondence and media statements go through her office.Culleton criticised the Senate for referring his eligibility to the high court, and blamed attorney general George Brandis for the referral, who he said “put two outboard motors on a piece of driftwood and thinks he’s going to carve the river up”. | |
Culleton said reports of a surge for One Nation in Western Australia were down to his efforts and asked “why wouldn’t” he continue in the party. | |
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Nat MP Andrew Broad: | |
Hey I got a wedgie at school. | |
Labor MP Anne Aly: | |
You didn’t get a wedgie because you’re brown. | |
Nats MP @broad4mallee had an interesting analogy for Labor's Anne Aly, on receiving racist emails@abcnews #auspol pic.twitter.com/j0whmkttgK | Nats MP @broad4mallee had an interesting analogy for Labor's Anne Aly, on receiving racist emails@abcnews #auspol pic.twitter.com/j0whmkttgK |
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Lunchtime politics | |
Apologies people. I stepped away from the machine to talk to real people. | Apologies people. I stepped away from the machine to talk to real people. |
Let me just summarise the day so far. | Let me just summarise the day so far. |
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Just an update on threats against Labor MP Anne Aly. She talked about threatening emails. A quick look at her Facebook page reveals death threats. We are told police are investigating. | Just an update on threats against Labor MP Anne Aly. She talked about threatening emails. A quick look at her Facebook page reveals death threats. We are told police are investigating. |
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Coalition superannuation reforms pass the Senate | Coalition superannuation reforms pass the Senate |
I should have mentioned earlier, the Coalition’s superannuation reforms have passed the Senate with Labor support. | I should have mentioned earlier, the Coalition’s superannuation reforms have passed the Senate with Labor support. |
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Pauline Hanson does not turn up to Culleton meeting | Pauline Hanson does not turn up to Culleton meeting |
Paul Karp | Paul Karp |
Turns out the meeting between Rodney Culleton and Pauline Hanson was scheduled for 11:30 but Hanson never showed up. | Turns out the meeting between Rodney Culleton and Pauline Hanson was scheduled for 11:30 but Hanson never showed up. |
The standoff (your office or mine) and political theatre continues and Culleton is off to Nationals bbq. | The standoff (your office or mine) and political theatre continues and Culleton is off to Nationals bbq. |
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The backpacker tax debate has started in the Senate. | The backpacker tax debate has started in the Senate. |
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After some to-ing and fro-ing about whether Senator Rodney Culleton and One Nation party leader, Pauline Hanson, would meet last night or this morning, and whose office to meet in, the meeting is on now (at 11:30 on Culleton’s home turf). | After some to-ing and fro-ing about whether Senator Rodney Culleton and One Nation party leader, Pauline Hanson, would meet last night or this morning, and whose office to meet in, the meeting is on now (at 11:30 on Culleton’s home turf). |
The meeting was called because Culleton was referred to police after a letter he allegedly sent to a Cairns magistrate prompted concerns in judicial ranks of a possible attempt to pervert the course of justice and threaten a judicial officer. | The meeting was called because Culleton was referred to police after a letter he allegedly sent to a Cairns magistrate prompted concerns in judicial ranks of a possible attempt to pervert the course of justice and threaten a judicial officer. |
Culleton’s chief of staff, Margaret Menzel, told Guardian Australia this morning that Culleton intended to remain a One Nation senator, as “he’s been elected as a One Nation senator after Pauline Hanson chose him as a candidate”. | Culleton’s chief of staff, Margaret Menzel, told Guardian Australia this morning that Culleton intended to remain a One Nation senator, as “he’s been elected as a One Nation senator after Pauline Hanson chose him as a candidate”. |
Menzel refused to comment on obvious signs of dysfunction such as Hanson summoning Culleton to her office through a piece to camera on the ABC. Culleton didn’t attend the One Nation partyroom meeting this morning. When asked when Culleton last attended, Menzel said: | Menzel refused to comment on obvious signs of dysfunction such as Hanson summoning Culleton to her office through a piece to camera on the ABC. Culleton didn’t attend the One Nation partyroom meeting this morning. When asked when Culleton last attended, Menzel said: |
I couldn’t say. He has no ring through his nose ... I don’t know his every movement. He’s still managing to do his job – full credit to him. | I couldn’t say. He has no ring through his nose ... I don’t know his every movement. He’s still managing to do his job – full credit to him. |
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