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| Question time: Labor targets Malcolm Turnbull over backpacker tax – politics live | |
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| 3.31am GMT | |
| 03:31 | |
| Labor to Joyce: Is it seriously the government’s position that it would rather inflict a 32.5% tax on rural and regional Australia rather than accept Labor’s sensible 13% compromise offer? | |
| I want to quote exactly what the National Farmers Federation said and then place it clearly before the Leader of the Opposition and see if he wishes to correct the record after misleading the House. The National Farmers Federation says, and I quote, “To be clear, we continue to support 15% as the best policy outcome. | |
| 3.28am GMT | |
| 03:28 | |
| Independent Bob Katter asks energy minister about supporting ethanol in contrast to former National and LNP ministers. Part of the question from Katter: | |
| Minister [John] Anderson rejects biofuelling and now works for an oil and gas company. [Mark] Vaile works for an oil and gas companies. [Ian] McFarlane heads the Resources Council. To quote the AMA, atmospheric health [expert], Professor Carney, more people die from motor vehicle emissions than motor vehicle accidents...Minister, will you consider a health safe, cheap, reliable home-grown fuel supply, biofuels, or are you just another oil puppet? | |
| Frydenberg says the government does not support mandates but is absolutely committed to the biofuels industry. | |
| 3.22am GMT | |
| 03:22 | |
| Labor to Scott Morrison: Last week the Treasurer declared there was no room for compromise on a backpacker tax of 19%. Today the Treasurer stated that 15% was the line in the sand? Is this the Treasurer’s final position, or just his latest? Why doesn’t the Government negotiate with the Senate the same way the PM negotiates with the hard right of his party room, and just give in? | |
| Scott Morrison goes through the history of the backpacker tax and says Labor is playing political games. | |
| 3.18am GMT | |
| 03:18 | |
| Joyce answers a government question on backpackers tax and goes all stream of consciousness. | |
| Joyce yells at Shorten: | |
| He sits there with a Cheshire grin and the Member for Hunter [Joel Fitzgibbon], you are so clever with the damage you’ve done, you’ve so clever with the damage you’ve done. You don’t care about Australian workers, you never have cared about Australian workers, you are so inside the belt way, that is all this is about. You are a disgrace about what has happened today, when you should have shown tomorrow turnaround, show some ticker, get that grin off your face, it is not funny at all. The whole point of what you are doing to the Australian horticultural industry is exactly what you did to the Australian live cattle industry. | |
| 3.13am GMT | |
| 03:13 | |
| Labor to Turnbull: On the backpacker tax, the PM has gone from 0% to 32.5%, then to 19%, then threatened 32.5% again, then to 15%, then threatened 32.5% again and every time he said it was his final offer. When will the PM accept Labor’s sensible compromise of 13%? PM, it’s time to end the chaos. | |
| Turnbull says Bill Shorten is a representative of the foreign workers union. | |
| Foreign backpackers from some of the richest countries in the world pay less tax than Australians, and they even pay less tax than Pacific islanders working here as part of an aid exercise, designed to enable them to remit money to their families in their communities in some of the poorest countries in the world. The Labor party has no principles, it has no consistency, it has no values. | |
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| 3.08am GMT | |
| 03:08 | |
| Labor to Turnbull: Today the President of the National Farmers’ Federation has called on the government to adopt Labor’s position on the backpacker tax, stating, and I quote, “Do the deal today. Do what it takes to get the deal done. Do the deal. Do a deal!” Is the PM seriously going to inflict a 32.5% backpacker tax on rural and regional Australia because he is too arrogant to sign up to Labor’s sensible compromise? | |
| Turnbull describes Labor’s position as “sheer satire”. | |
| Turnbull flicks the question to Barnaby Joyce, who says the government has come further than Labor. | |
| This is the sort of contemptuous approach of the Labor party and they talk about it as if it is all about a number and they say it must be a number, if you’ve moved from 10.5% to 13%. We’ve moved from 32.5% to 19% to 15%, and yet all the time all you do is destroy. You are a wrecker, you want to destroy... | |
| Well, the Australian people are watching you with your swarmy look, your swarmy little press conferences, your smile, it is all just a joke. It doesn’t matter. It is just other people’s jobs and at the heart of this, what is it? What does he stand behind? He stands behind having a worse rate, a worse rate for Australian workers, actually discriminated against. | |
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| Question time is in two minutes. | Question time is in two minutes. |
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| Lunchtime politics | Lunchtime politics |
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| 02:18 | 02:18 |
| @gabriellechan I have 12% for this delightful foreign itinerant workers tax..12.5 I HAVE 12.5%..looking for 13..it's a steal at 13% folks.. pic.twitter.com/F8hXlTHSQM | @gabriellechan I have 12% for this delightful foreign itinerant workers tax..12.5 I HAVE 12.5%..looking for 13..it's a steal at 13% folks.. pic.twitter.com/F8hXlTHSQM |
| 2.17am GMT | 2.17am GMT |
| 02:17 | 02:17 |
| .@David_Speers reports the @NationalFarmers are urging the government to accept Labor's 13% backpacker tax proposal https://t.co/1TB5BhD5TJ | .@David_Speers reports the @NationalFarmers are urging the government to accept Labor's 13% backpacker tax proposal https://t.co/1TB5BhD5TJ |
| 2.14am GMT | 2.14am GMT |
| 02:14 | 02:14 |
| This day can’t get sillier. | This day can’t get sillier. |
| Watch this amazing kick from Jean-Claude Van Damme @JCVD, the Muscles from Brussels... pic.twitter.com/En7NQkv76W | Watch this amazing kick from Jean-Claude Van Damme @JCVD, the Muscles from Brussels... pic.twitter.com/En7NQkv76W |
| 2.12am GMT | 2.12am GMT |
| 02:12 | 02:12 |
| Backpacker tax rate by numbers | Backpacker tax rate by numbers |
| Now that the Greens’ Nick McKim has confirmed they will back the 13% rate, we will have: | Now that the Greens’ Nick McKim has confirmed they will back the 13% rate, we will have: |
| And on 15% | And on 15% |
| You can see we are at even stevens, noting that Bob Day is no longer in the Senate. | You can see we are at even stevens, noting that Bob Day is no longer in the Senate. |
| The other thing to note is unless the government is prepared to bring the amendment to the House and back to the Senate, the opposing parties can do nothing. | The other thing to note is unless the government is prepared to bring the amendment to the House and back to the Senate, the opposing parties can do nothing. |
| Just on the move by the NFF, the government will be furious. | Just on the move by the NFF, the government will be furious. |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 2.17am GMT | at 2.17am GMT |
| 1.53am GMT | 1.53am GMT |
| 01:53 | 01:53 |
| National Farmers Federation’s Fiona Simson has backed a 13% backpacker tax rate. | National Farmers Federation’s Fiona Simson has backed a 13% backpacker tax rate. |
| This is a significant change from their previous position, supporting 19% and then 15%. | This is a significant change from their previous position, supporting 19% and then 15%. |
| Simson says we just want to get the deal done. | Simson says we just want to get the deal done. |
| 1.51am GMT | 1.51am GMT |
| 01:51 | 01:51 |
| The Senate isn't here to rubber stamp bills. The majority of the Senate don't want the 15% backpacker tax. Negotiations continue #auspol | The Senate isn't here to rubber stamp bills. The majority of the Senate don't want the 15% backpacker tax. Negotiations continue #auspol |
| 1.50am GMT | 1.50am GMT |
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| Two protestors have been summonsed appear in court after the protests this morning. | Two protestors have been summonsed appear in court after the protests this morning. |
| .@AFPmedia on today's protest at Parliament House@abcnews #auspol pic.twitter.com/QtIrmwcWIY | .@AFPmedia on today's protest at Parliament House@abcnews #auspol pic.twitter.com/QtIrmwcWIY |
| 1.45am GMT | 1.45am GMT |
| 01:45 | 01:45 |
| Greens moving towards a 13% backpacker tax | Greens moving towards a 13% backpacker tax |
| The Greens have flagged they will consider a 13% backpacker tax. | The Greens have flagged they will consider a 13% backpacker tax. |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 1.47am GMT | at 1.47am GMT |
| 1.42am GMT | 1.42am GMT |
| 01:42 | 01:42 |
| Labor agriculture shadow Joel Fitzgibbon says he has been receiving phone calls from farm representatives all morning all saying while they backed Labor on 10.5% “but if you can get 13%, please let’s just do this”. | Labor agriculture shadow Joel Fitzgibbon says he has been receiving phone calls from farm representatives all morning all saying while they backed Labor on 10.5% “but if you can get 13%, please let’s just do this”. |
| But the most significant call was one from Stuart Armitage. Stuart Armitage is the chair of the Queensland Farmers Federation, an arm of the National Farmers Federation, very, very interestingly. | But the most significant call was one from Stuart Armitage. Stuart Armitage is the chair of the Queensland Farmers Federation, an arm of the National Farmers Federation, very, very interestingly. |
| He said, ‘Joel, I’m backing you at 10.5, but, mate, if you can’t get 10.5, can you go 13?’ I thought that was a significant contribution from him. | He said, ‘Joel, I’m backing you at 10.5, but, mate, if you can’t get 10.5, can you go 13?’ I thought that was a significant contribution from him. |
| Fitzgibbon has been critical of the NFF’s role on the backpacker tax, saying he was getting different messages from the peak body to other state and representative bodies. | Fitzgibbon has been critical of the NFF’s role on the backpacker tax, saying he was getting different messages from the peak body to other state and representative bodies. |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 1.48am GMT | at 1.48am GMT |
| 1.32am GMT | 1.32am GMT |
| 01:32 | 01:32 |
| Bill Shorten confirms Labor will accept 13% backpacker tax | Bill Shorten confirms Labor will accept 13% backpacker tax |
| Bill Shorten: | Bill Shorten: |
| We are prepared to support a 13% backpacker tax from every dollar earned by backpackers. We think it gets the balance right and I will get Chris to explain more about that in a moment. There is a solution on the table for Malcolm Turnbull. Our message to Malcolm Turnbull is grow up, swallow your pride, accept a solution. | We are prepared to support a 13% backpacker tax from every dollar earned by backpackers. We think it gets the balance right and I will get Chris to explain more about that in a moment. There is a solution on the table for Malcolm Turnbull. Our message to Malcolm Turnbull is grow up, swallow your pride, accept a solution. |