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| Greens do deal with government for a 15% backpacker tax – politics live | Greens do deal with government for a 15% backpacker tax – politics live |
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| 7.02am GMT | |
| 07:02 | |
| The Coalition Senate leader, George Brandis, is now trying to vary the business of the Senate to allow for the backpacker bills. | |
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| at 7.04am GMT | |
| 6.59am GMT | |
| 06:59 | |
| Christmas cheer. | |
| Maybe this isn’t such a good idea... | |
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| at 7.03am GMT | |
| 6.53am GMT | |
| 06:53 | |
| On the extra cost of Landcare, Malcolm Turnbull has a newfound love. | |
| It really is a great investment. It supports so many groups across the country, so many volunteer groups, and we’re very pleased to be able to do that. Extremely pleased, actually. And as far as the overall – the deal on the tax – as you’ve heard from the treasurer, this is a saving, but of course it does preserve for all time that 15% rate. | |
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| at 7.02am GMT | |
| 6.49am GMT | |
| 06:49 | |
| Dennis Atkin asks: Isn’t it embarrassing to have the party of Black Jack McEwen rescued by inner-city Greens? | |
| Look, I think that, once more, politics is about getting things through and what I think is important for my people, for people in regional areas, is they’re going to get their fruit picked, they are going to get cash coming in, that money is going to go into the towns. | |
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| at 6.52am GMT | |
| 6.45am GMT | |
| 06:45 | |
| Scott Morrison: 70% of something is better than 100% of nothing | |
| Scott Morrison is asked: you’ve given up on your savings? | |
| We’ll achieve over 70% of the revenues that were set out in the budget. And in the 45th parliament, it’s about getting things done, and you’ve heard me say often and the prime minister, that 80% of something is better than 100% of nothing. Well, today it’s 70% of something rather than 100% of nothing. | |
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| at 6.52am GMT | |
| 6.43am GMT | |
| 06:43 | |
| Thanks Crowey... | |
| Barnaby Joyce accuses Labor of being "swarmy" and adds "look it up in the urban dictionary" so here it is. pic.twitter.com/15iwMTj3PH | |
| 6.39am GMT | |
| 06:39 | |
| BREAKING: Barnaby commends the Greens | |
| Turnbull thanks Richard Di Natale and the Greens for their support and also the continuing support in the Senate of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, and, of course, the Nick Xenophon Team. | |
| Barnaby Joyce redoubles his theme from question time. | |
| Swarmy smile and I know swarmy, I know exactly what I’m saying, I’m not talking about a guru, I’m talking about Urban Dictionary. That swarmy smile, that conceit, that idea that they’re approaching it for just one purpose – to be clever fellas and blow this up... | |
| I commend the Greens, I commend One Nation, I commend the Liberal Democratic party, I commend the work that has been done. | |
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| at 6.44am GMT | |
| 6.36am GMT | |
| 06:36 | |
| Meanwhile, Malcolm Turnbull is “getting on with the job” down in his prime ministerial courtyard. | |
| We were lectured in question time by the Labor party, that we should compromise and come to a resolution, and we have done so, and I want to thank our Senate team and in particular senator Cormann for his negotiations with the Greens, in assisting all of us in ensuring that we can come to that resolution. We’ve come to a resolution and what is the Labor party doing? Using their best endeavours now to frustrate it. | |
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| at 6.56am GMT | |
| 6.34am GMT | |
| 06:34 | |
| Paul Karp | |
| The Senate has passed a motion by senators Rodney Culleton and Jacqui Lambie about the information that was before the Senate when it agreed to refer Culleton’s eligibility to the high court. | |
| Basically, Culleton has fished out one fact that wasn’t before the Senate (that the judge in his larceny case was not able to sentence him to imprisonment because the conviction was in absentia). | |
| The motion notes the fact was not made known by attorney general George Brandis at the time, and asks him to explain why. | |
| It passed 35-28, meaning at least Labor and the Greens agreed. | |
| It’s a very preliminary step in Culleton’s bigger goal for the Senate to tear up the referral to the high court that could see him ejected from the Senate. Although Pauline Hanson and the other One Nation senators supported the referral, Culleton has claimed that Hanson will support him when she has the “full facts”. | |
| But what did they do when Culleton and Lambie put up the motion? All three One Nation senators voted against it. So it doesn’t look like they’ve had any change of heart about referring his eligibility and they’re not impressed by his attempt to relitigate it.Full support with full facts? Not quite. | |
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| at 6.40am GMT | |
| 6.29am GMT | 6.29am GMT |
| 06:29 | 06:29 |
| Press conference with Malcolm Turnbull, Barnaby Joyce and Scott Morrison coming up. | Press conference with Malcolm Turnbull, Barnaby Joyce and Scott Morrison coming up. |
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| at 6.32am GMT | |
| 6.27am GMT | 6.27am GMT |
| 06:27 | 06:27 |
| Joel Fitzgibbon is using the backpackers debate to talk about Joyce’s decision to move the pesticides authority, APVMA. | |
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| at 6.33am GMT | |
| 6.22am GMT | 6.22am GMT |
| 06:22 | 06:22 |
| @gabriellechan The Treasurer five minutes after the backpacker tax was negotiated... #post pic.twitter.com/4d5Dq66X4c | @gabriellechan The Treasurer five minutes after the backpacker tax was negotiated... #post pic.twitter.com/4d5Dq66X4c |
| @gabriellechan The Treasurer, five minutes before the backpacker tax deal.was negotiated..... #pre pic.twitter.com/uXWtEXA8UM | @gabriellechan The Treasurer, five minutes before the backpacker tax deal.was negotiated..... #pre pic.twitter.com/uXWtEXA8UM |
| 6.19am GMT | 6.19am GMT |
| 06:19 | 06:19 |
| So the government wins the vote and the debate on the superannuation bill continues with Labor’s Joel Fitzgibbon. | So the government wins the vote and the debate on the superannuation bill continues with Labor’s Joel Fitzgibbon. |
| Fitzgibbon makes these points: | Fitzgibbon makes these points: |
| Scott Morrison says the extra $100m for Landcare would be covered in the mid year economic and fiscal outlook on December 19. | Scott Morrison says the extra $100m for Landcare would be covered in the mid year economic and fiscal outlook on December 19. |
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| at 6.22am GMT | at 6.22am GMT |
| 6.13am GMT | 6.13am GMT |
| 06:13 | 06:13 |
| You will be familiar with Opposition’s moving suspension of standing orders to disrupt the House, but in this case, the government – no less the treasurer, Scott Morrison – is moving one. He needs to cut in to business to put the backpacker superannuation tax rate bill at the new level of 65%. | You will be familiar with Opposition’s moving suspension of standing orders to disrupt the House, but in this case, the government – no less the treasurer, Scott Morrison – is moving one. He needs to cut in to business to put the backpacker superannuation tax rate bill at the new level of 65%. |
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| at 6.16am GMT | at 6.16am GMT |
| 6.07am GMT | 6.07am GMT |
| 06:07 | 06:07 |
| The House is starting the many tortured procedural votes to get through the backpacker superannuation tax and the headline 15% rate. | The House is starting the many tortured procedural votes to get through the backpacker superannuation tax and the headline 15% rate. |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 6.15am GMT | at 6.15am GMT |