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Peter Dutton calls Cory Bernardi's defection a 'betrayal' – politics live | Peter Dutton calls Cory Bernardi's defection a 'betrayal' – politics live |
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Paul Karp has gone to the high court to cover the Bob Day case. AAP has previewed the case for us: | |
The question of how to fill the Senate seat left vacant by former Family First senator Bob Day is set to be argued in the High Court. | |
Lawyers for Attorney-General George Brandis will argue the South Australian seat should be filled by a special count when the matter comes before the High Court, sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns, in Canberra on Tuesday. | |
The court will need to determine whether Mr Day had a direct or indirect pecuniary interest in a lease agreement between the owner of his electorate office premises Fullarton Investments and the federal government. | |
Under the constitution, such an arrangement would disqualify him from sitting in parliament. | |
If he is found to have been disqualified a recount would be needed, but if he wins, Family First would fill the casual vacancy caused by his resignation last year. | |
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We are entering the Matt Hatter zone. Herewith, a visual representation of the Cory Bernardi defection. | |
@gabriellechan Hi🎭. Following the official returning of the LNP stapler, Mr Bernardi then performed a traditional SA Liberal exit ceremony. pic.twitter.com/xpzTNgbc9f | |
How I missed that Matt Hatter. | |
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Malcolm Turnbull reportedly tells the partyroom that Bernardi did not try to justify staying in his senate seat after being elected as a Liberal. | |
PM Turnbull just now in partyroom "I asked him how he could justify remaining in the Senate having been elected ...1/2 | |
...as a Liberal only seven months ago. He could not answer that question" 2/2 | |
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Turnbull: Australians must know their government determines who comes to Australia | |
Malcolm Turnbull: | |
Look around the world at the grief and the turmoil that you’ve seen through lax border protection. | |
We have now gone over 900 days without a successful people smuggling venture coming toAustralia. That is a remarkable achievement and one on which we can never be complacent. | |
Australians know that the Coalition, the Liberal and the National Party Coalition will keep their borders secure. That is the foundation of our ... immigration policies. It is the foundation of our multicultural society. Australians must know that their government and their government alone determines who comes to Australia. That is their sovereign right. That is our sovereign right as a nation. | |
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Turnbull: Labor will lead us down into the dead end of poverty | |
Turnbull says: | |
The Labor Party used to believe that years ago when they were more economically rational. No longer. A wholly-owned subsidiary of left wing trade unions. Bill Shorten is a threat to every household budget, to every business, to every job. Only a few weeks ago, I was inPortland. What does the great enterprise need most of all? It needs markets to sell its aluminium and it needs affordable energy, and the Labor Party is the enemy of both. Adopting his new guise as a protectionist, a populist protectionist, leading us down into a dead end of poverty. | |
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The prime minister is speaking to the joint party room right now. He is talking about his very clear roadmap to deliver affordable energy. | |
It will be an all of the above policy, using all technologies, rationally, objectively, in a business-like manner, to deliver for those hard-working Australian families. | |
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All eyes will be on the Senate chamber at 12.30pm when Cory Bernardi officially jumps ship. | |
The last time a similar desertion happened was when the Labor senator Mal Colston ratted on the ALP. The inglorious senator, who left the party because he did not get its deputy president’s gig, resigned by fax. | |
Presumably – Bernardi is not confirming – he will deliver a manifesto for his new party while the cameras roll. | |
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Joyce: PM to make a statement on land acquisitions for Shoalwater Bay defence force facility | Joyce: PM to make a statement on land acquisitions for Shoalwater Bay defence force facility |
Some of you may have read my piece last week on the barney going on in central Queensland regarding a decision to acquire land for the expansion of the Shoalwater Bay military training facility. The expansion is required because of the deal signed last year with Singapore to allow its troops to train for 18 weeks a year with Australian troops in Australia. As an important ally, Singapore is also funding the expansion of the facility. The fight occurred after the defence department wrote to landholders with a threat of acquisition before they knew which properties were required, leaving farmers upset and angry. | Some of you may have read my piece last week on the barney going on in central Queensland regarding a decision to acquire land for the expansion of the Shoalwater Bay military training facility. The expansion is required because of the deal signed last year with Singapore to allow its troops to train for 18 weeks a year with Australian troops in Australia. As an important ally, Singapore is also funding the expansion of the facility. The fight occurred after the defence department wrote to landholders with a threat of acquisition before they knew which properties were required, leaving farmers upset and angry. |
Pauline Hanson was making hay while the sun shone. Labor was campaigning there. Shock jocks were getting in on the act. | Pauline Hanson was making hay while the sun shone. Labor was campaigning there. Shock jocks were getting in on the act. |
Barnaby Joyce visited landholders on Friday and he told them he was hopeful there would be no compulsory acquisitions. He has just told John Laws the prime minister will be making a statement to the joint party room about Shoalwater Bay. | Barnaby Joyce visited landholders on Friday and he told them he was hopeful there would be no compulsory acquisitions. He has just told John Laws the prime minister will be making a statement to the joint party room about Shoalwater Bay. |
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Peter Dutton: There is no chance of others following Bernardi | Peter Dutton: There is no chance of others following Bernardi |
Paul Karp | Paul Karp |
As reported earlier, the immigration minister, Peter Dutton, has spoken on ABC’s AM about the “betrayal” of Senator Cory Bernardi in quitting the Liberal party. Here are fuller quotes. | As reported earlier, the immigration minister, Peter Dutton, has spoken on ABC’s AM about the “betrayal” of Senator Cory Bernardi in quitting the Liberal party. Here are fuller quotes. |
It is a betrayal when somebody leaves a political party. Because … the grassroots members, the people who have handed out how to votes in election after election because they believe in good government, in the cause of the Liberal party … [it’s] certainly a sense of betrayal they would feel when somebody leaves our ranks. | It is a betrayal when somebody leaves a political party. Because … the grassroots members, the people who have handed out how to votes in election after election because they believe in good government, in the cause of the Liberal party … [it’s] certainly a sense of betrayal they would feel when somebody leaves our ranks. |
The principal that we have to adhere to here is the enemy of the Liberal party and of good government here in Australia is the Labor party. We can most effectively defeat the Labor party at the next election if we’re united and we stick together as a party” | The principal that we have to adhere to here is the enemy of the Liberal party and of good government here in Australia is the Labor party. We can most effectively defeat the Labor party at the next election if we’re united and we stick together as a party” |
Asked about whether George Christensen, who has ruled out joining Bernardi for now, could jump ship over issues including marriage equality, Dutton noted that Christensen has said he is loyal to Barnaby Joyce, to the LNP and to the Coalition. | Asked about whether George Christensen, who has ruled out joining Bernardi for now, could jump ship over issues including marriage equality, Dutton noted that Christensen has said he is loyal to Barnaby Joyce, to the LNP and to the Coalition. |
I take George Christensen at his word. To answer your question, I think there is no chance of others following. I think people … will be angry about any defection, angry about the betrayal of Liberal party values. | I take George Christensen at his word. To answer your question, I think there is no chance of others following. I think people … will be angry about any defection, angry about the betrayal of Liberal party values. |
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If God were polled, would she tick Cory or me? | If God were polled, would she tick Cory or me? |
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Stuntman and NXT leader Nick Xenophon, channelling the zeitgeist. | Stuntman and NXT leader Nick Xenophon, channelling the zeitgeist. |
Xenophon brings together equal parts nationalism and oppositional defiance disorder. | Xenophon brings together equal parts nationalism and oppositional defiance disorder. |
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It is worth concentrating on the question asked in the poll relating to the Trump travel ban. Because the Essential poll found that when you added Donald Trump to the equation, support for a ban dropped. From Paul Karp’s story: | It is worth concentrating on the question asked in the poll relating to the Trump travel ban. Because the Essential poll found that when you added Donald Trump to the equation, support for a ban dropped. From Paul Karp’s story: |
The Essential poll found support for a travel ban on Muslim countries was highest among voters of “other” parties, with 66% in favour and 25% opposed. Coalition voters were the next most likely to support it, with 48% in favour and 38% opposed. | The Essential poll found support for a travel ban on Muslim countries was highest among voters of “other” parties, with 66% in favour and 25% opposed. Coalition voters were the next most likely to support it, with 48% in favour and 38% opposed. |
A majority of Labor voters were against a ban, with 59% opposed and 31% in favour. Greens voters were most opposed with 75% against a ban and just 15% in favour. | A majority of Labor voters were against a ban, with 59% opposed and 31% in favour. Greens voters were most opposed with 75% against a ban and just 15% in favour. |
When asked specifically about whether they approved of Trump’s executive order in the US, the Essential poll found support fell to 36%, disapproval was 49% and 14% remained undecided. | When asked specifically about whether they approved of Trump’s executive order in the US, the Essential poll found support fell to 36%, disapproval was 49% and 14% remained undecided. |
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Paul Karp | Paul Karp |
Another Essential poll on the question of Australian support for Trump’s travel ban. | Another Essential poll on the question of Australian support for Trump’s travel ban. |
Australians are evenly divided on Donald Trump’s ban on travel from a group of Muslim-majority nations, two new polls have found. | Australians are evenly divided on Donald Trump’s ban on travel from a group of Muslim-majority nations, two new polls have found. |
The Essential poll of 1,014 voters, released on Tuesday, found 41% of Australians supported a “ban on people from Muslim countries from entering Australia”. That compared with 46% who opposed a ban and 14% who didn’t know. | The Essential poll of 1,014 voters, released on Tuesday, found 41% of Australians supported a “ban on people from Muslim countries from entering Australia”. That compared with 46% who opposed a ban and 14% who didn’t know. |
Tuesday’s Newspoll found that 44% of respondents believe Australia should take similar measures to Trump’s executive order, 45% oppose doing so and 11% were uncommitted. | Tuesday’s Newspoll found that 44% of respondents believe Australia should take similar measures to Trump’s executive order, 45% oppose doing so and 11% were uncommitted. |
Through the executive order Trump suspended visas being issued for 90 days to migrants or travellers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, stopped all refugee arrivals into the US for 120 days and banned Syrian refugees indefinitely. | Through the executive order Trump suspended visas being issued for 90 days to migrants or travellers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, stopped all refugee arrivals into the US for 120 days and banned Syrian refugees indefinitely. |
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Christopher Pyne has tweeted his heart out this morning. | Christopher Pyne has tweeted his heart out this morning. |
The Liberal Party's values are not limited to conservatism. We are Liberals because we are open to new ideas; tolerant of difference; 1/2 | The Liberal Party's values are not limited to conservatism. We are Liberals because we are open to new ideas; tolerant of difference; 1/2 |
modern and forward looking; we believe in reward for effort and sharing Australia's good fortune with those in need. 2/2 | modern and forward looking; we believe in reward for effort and sharing Australia's good fortune with those in need. 2/2 |
Those most hurt by Cory Bernardi are the hundreds of thousands of SA voters who voted Liberal in the Senate only to be let down by him. | Those most hurt by Cory Bernardi are the hundreds of thousands of SA voters who voted Liberal in the Senate only to be let down by him. |
The special minister of state, Scott Ryan, is asked about Pyne’s comments that Bernardi should give up his Senate seat. | The special minister of state, Scott Ryan, is asked about Pyne’s comments that Bernardi should give up his Senate seat. |
Ryan says Christopher and Cory have history. Droll. | Ryan says Christopher and Cory have history. Droll. |
That’s for sure. The plane from Canberra to Adelaide after parliament is always interesting. Oftimes, South Australian Liberals would rather sit next to Labor MPs than each other. | That’s for sure. The plane from Canberra to Adelaide after parliament is always interesting. Oftimes, South Australian Liberals would rather sit next to Labor MPs than each other. |
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