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Parliament reacts to Liberal turmoil – question time live | Parliament reacts to Liberal turmoil – question time live |
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Labor to Turnbull: The prime minister’s former Energy advisor Danny Price, said that the prime minister’s refusal to even consider an emissions intensity scheme “shows a lack of spine”. By doing this it means they are the party of increasing electricity prices and reduced energy security. Will the Prime Minister confirm that his lack of spine and his failure to stand up to Senator Bernardi has made theLiberal government the party of increasing electricity prices and reduced energy security? | |
After an introduction involving squirrels, Turnbull reasserts that the Coalition stands for jobs and reliable affordable energy. | |
Who doesn’t? | |
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There is a government question to treasurer Scott Morrison about the need to cut company tax cuts. | |
I should also say his shadow Chris Bowen was chucked out in the previous answer for taking a frivolous point of order. | |
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Labor’s Mark Butler to Turnbull: Energy markets commission modelling shows emissions intensity scheme would save consumers $15bn on their power bills. Within hours of Senator Bernardi objecting to the government even considering such a scheme, the Prime Minister caved in and ruled it out in December. Given that Senator Bernardi has now quit the LiberalParty, will the prime minister reconsider an emissions intensity scheme or are there still too many government MPs who hold the same views as Senator Bernardi to prevent the prime minister from taking the right action? | |
Turnbull doesn’t answer on the savings to be had on an emissions intensity scheme. | |
The reality is very simply this - that the Labor Party has pursued renewable energy as an end in itself, without having regard for the need for base load power, without having regard to the fact that all of their assumptions about gas prices have been overtaken by both a massive rise in the cost of gas and its constrained availability and without making any plans for the storage that is needed to make renewables viable. | |
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Malcolm Turnbull takes a government question on energy so that he can talk about Labor governments and their renewable energy policies. | |
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Shorten to Turnbull: It is a matter of record that 34,000 full-time jobs have been lost in the last year. Underemployment is close to a record high. Wages are growing at the slowest rate on record. When 34,000 full-time jobs have been lost in the last year alone, why are you only worried about your own job and not theirs? | |
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It gives me the opportunity to remind the honourable member that there were 100,000 new jobs in manufacturing. It has been a long time since we have seen growth in manufacturing. The reason we are seeing it is because of the big export markets we have opened up and he would like to close in his new protectionist guise. | |
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The first Dorothy Dixer is about how the government is helping hardworking Australians get ahead. | |
Turnbull’s answer relates to energy prices and Labor’s determination to revert to protectionism. | |
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Shorten to Turnbull: Australians have been shocked and sickened by the crimes that have been revealed through the royal commission into child sexual abuse, including yesterday’s tragic and indefensible revelations. Will the prime minister join with me in reassuring the people of Australia that we will do everything in our power together to make sure that this never happens again and that survivors get the justice and redress they deserve? | |
Turnbull says the scheme will be established next year and will provide monetary payments, psychological counselling and a direct personal response to acknowledge the wrong doing inflicted upon survivors. | |
He invited the states, territories and other non-government institutions to join in the commonwealth scheme to deliver redress. | |
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Without enough hands, I have not given a full account of the pledge by the government not to force land sales of farmers around the defence facility at Shoalwater Bay. But Colin Bettles has the story here. | |
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US senators send Australia a message: Hey buddy, we love you. | |
Meanwhile, in the US, AAP reports: | |
US senators have gone into damage control for the American-Australian alliance following president Donald Trump’s acrimonious phone call with prime minister Malcolm Turnbull.Republican senators Lamar Alexander and Marco Rubio, along with Democrats Ben Cardin and Ed Markey, have introduced a bipartisan resolution “reaffirming a strong commitment to the United States-Australian alliance relationship”.It describes the alliance as a “sacred vow of friendship and trust” and Australia as a faithful and reliable partner.Senator Alexander told the Senate on Monday night he did not know what happened during the infamous phone call between the leaders.But he did know the people of the US did not have better friends than the people of Australia. | |
Even though they lived down under on the other side of the world, for a century Australians have stood with us every time we were at war. And we have stood with them. | |
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Independent Andrew Wilkie is giving a statement on the 50th anniversary of the Black Tuesday bushfires in Tasmania. | |
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Going the full Cory. His resignation speech. | |
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Check out Katharine Murphy’s wrap of the Cory Bernardi resignation. | |
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Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten are giving a statement on indulgence on the death of the writer and broadcaster Anne Deveson. | |
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Labor has made a submission to the high court in the Bob Day case. | Labor has made a submission to the high court in the Bob Day case. |
Jeremy Kirk, representing the former South Australian Labor senator Anne McEwen, has told the high court that if Bob Day was ineligible to be elected to the Senate, the next Family First candidate should not be automatically elected. | |
In submissions to the high court on Tuesday, Kirk said that above the line votes should not count for the second candidate, Lucy Gichuhi, because “the group’s square was not properly there” as it only had two candidates, one of whom was invalid. | |
Kirk said that allowing the votes to flow down the list “presupposes there was a valid box there [above the line]” and, instead, votes should flow to the groups voters had chosen second above the line. | Kirk said that allowing the votes to flow down the list “presupposes there was a valid box there [above the line]” and, instead, votes should flow to the groups voters had chosen second above the line. |
Kirk highlighted the fact that Bob Day was the top of the ticket and had the higher profile, and the “close association” between Day, who he said was ineligible, and the Family First party. | |
The commonwealth is content for Day’s replacement to be chosen by a recount that would include above the line votes flowing to Gichuhi. | The commonwealth is content for Day’s replacement to be chosen by a recount that would include above the line votes flowing to Gichuhi. |
The high court resumes with submissions on behalf of Bob Day at 2pm. | The high court resumes with submissions on behalf of Bob Day at 2pm. |
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Everyone in the chamber stands to remember the victims who died in the Bourke Street mall. | |
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