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| Bill Shorten urges Coalition to ditch company tax cuts instead of 'threatening' voters – question time live | Bill Shorten urges Coalition to ditch company tax cuts instead of 'threatening' voters – question time live |
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| A rare Coalition ministerial turfing. | |
| Matched by a not-so-rare Labor eviction. | |
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| The Senate has voted to sit late to consider the ABCC bill. | |
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| The Senate is currently voting on whether it should stay late to debate the ABCC bill until it passes. | The Senate is currently voting on whether it should stay late to debate the ABCC bill until it passes. |
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| Paul Karp | Paul Karp |
| Labor’s shadow employment minister, Brendan O’Connor, has circulated a series of amendments to the ABCC bill, now that debate has been reopened by Derryn Hinch agreeing to trim the period of the building code phase-in period.The amendments: | Labor’s shadow employment minister, Brendan O’Connor, has circulated a series of amendments to the ABCC bill, now that debate has been reopened by Derryn Hinch agreeing to trim the period of the building code phase-in period.The amendments: |
| Hold that to the extent the code is inconsistent with the Fair Work Act, the government’s procurement policy does not apply | Hold that to the extent the code is inconsistent with the Fair Work Act, the government’s procurement policy does not apply |
| Exempt essential services from the code, due to reports it will cause industrial action at electricity grid companies, including in South Australia | Exempt essential services from the code, due to reports it will cause industrial action at electricity grid companies, including in South Australia |
| Allow agreements to specify the number of apprentices to be employed and to allow checks that workers can legally work in Australia | Allow agreements to specify the number of apprentices to be employed and to allow checks that workers can legally work in Australia |
| The amendments haven’t gone to the Greens party room but they are inclined to support them – but no word back from the Nick Xenophon Team on their position. | The amendments haven’t gone to the Greens party room but they are inclined to support them – but no word back from the Nick Xenophon Team on their position. |
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| Where’s Malcolm? | Where’s Malcolm? |
| The West Australian is reporting that the prime minister has not been seen in the state for six months. | The West Australian is reporting that the prime minister has not been seen in the state for six months. |
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| Paul Karp | Paul Karp |
| The Liberal defector and senator Cory Bernardi has asked his first question in Senate question time since he formed the Australian Conservatives. | The Liberal defector and senator Cory Bernardi has asked his first question in Senate question time since he formed the Australian Conservatives. |
| He asked if the Coalition would introduce real-time disclosure of commonwealth spending, prefacing the question with the observation that public debt amounts to $90,000 per Australian child. | He asked if the Coalition would introduce real-time disclosure of commonwealth spending, prefacing the question with the observation that public debt amounts to $90,000 per Australian child. |
| The finance minister, Mathias Cormann, said the Coalition shared his concern about the state of the budget and noted that Bernardi was, until recently, “a valued member of the team that worked to repair the damage Labor did to the budget with $250bn of budget improvements over the medium term”. | The finance minister, Mathias Cormann, said the Coalition shared his concern about the state of the budget and noted that Bernardi was, until recently, “a valued member of the team that worked to repair the damage Labor did to the budget with $250bn of budget improvements over the medium term”. |
| Cormann called on Bernardi to pass the omnibus welfare bill and said he would take the suggestion of real-time disclosure of spending on notice. | Cormann called on Bernardi to pass the omnibus welfare bill and said he would take the suggestion of real-time disclosure of spending on notice. |
| His first question shows Bernardi plans to outflank the Coalition on the right in fiscal policy, taking up the Abbott line that the government hasn’t done enough to cut the deficit because it was scared off by the 2014 budget. | His first question shows Bernardi plans to outflank the Coalition on the right in fiscal policy, taking up the Abbott line that the government hasn’t done enough to cut the deficit because it was scared off by the 2014 budget. |
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| Anthony Albanese to Malcolm Turnbull: The government’s punished Victorians for electing a Labor government but [is] shortchanging them on infrastructure funding ... Victoria receives 8%, despite having 25% of the nation’s population. Why is the prime minister now holding West Australians hostage by threatening to withhold $1.2bn in funding, because [the] future Labor government would not proceed with their discredited Perth freight link? | Anthony Albanese to Malcolm Turnbull: The government’s punished Victorians for electing a Labor government but [is] shortchanging them on infrastructure funding ... Victoria receives 8%, despite having 25% of the nation’s population. Why is the prime minister now holding West Australians hostage by threatening to withhold $1.2bn in funding, because [the] future Labor government would not proceed with their discredited Perth freight link? |
| Turnbull: | Turnbull: |
| The honourable member has overlooked the fact that Western Australia is a great exporting state and it needs the infrastructure to get the exports to the market and to the port. | The honourable member has overlooked the fact that Western Australia is a great exporting state and it needs the infrastructure to get the exports to the market and to the port. |
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| Labor to the transport minister, Darren Chester: Is the prime minister aware that the Perth freight link will not take freight to the ports but stops 3km short of it? Why is this discredited project a priority for the prime minister instead of expanding transport in Perth through the Metronet? | Labor to the transport minister, Darren Chester: Is the prime minister aware that the Perth freight link will not take freight to the ports but stops 3km short of it? Why is this discredited project a priority for the prime minister instead of expanding transport in Perth through the Metronet? |
| (Remember the freight link was supported by the Coalition and Metronet was supported by Labor at the last election.) | (Remember the freight link was supported by the Coalition and Metronet was supported by Labor at the last election.) |
| Chester does not answer the question. | Chester does not answer the question. |
| The closest he gets is, | The closest he gets is, |
| the freight link will give significant travel time savings for the community in Western Australia. | the freight link will give significant travel time savings for the community in Western Australia. |
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| Bowen to Morrison: Can the treasurer confirm in the last bill, he has introduced a bill with cuts to family, pensioners, carers and new mums and held the NDIS to ransom, threatened to increase taxes on all Australians, while persisting with his $50bn of company tax cuts. Does this show the treasurer is incompetent and out of touch? | Bowen to Morrison: Can the treasurer confirm in the last bill, he has introduced a bill with cuts to family, pensioners, carers and new mums and held the NDIS to ransom, threatened to increase taxes on all Australians, while persisting with his $50bn of company tax cuts. Does this show the treasurer is incompetent and out of touch? |
| The question is hard to answer and Morrison does not. | The question is hard to answer and Morrison does not. |
| Those mock opposite, Mr Speaker, every time I raise the issue they want to spend more money on welfare and send the bill to their kids. If you want to raise spending on welfare and keep it at high levels, at least have the courage to insist that the generation that you say wants that higher welfare also pays for it, and don’t send the bill to the children of the future on their credit card. | Those mock opposite, Mr Speaker, every time I raise the issue they want to spend more money on welfare and send the bill to their kids. If you want to raise spending on welfare and keep it at high levels, at least have the courage to insist that the generation that you say wants that higher welfare also pays for it, and don’t send the bill to the children of the future on their credit card. |
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| The immigration minister, Peter Dutton, is asked a government question about hardworking Australians etc etc. | The immigration minister, Peter Dutton, is asked a government question about hardworking Australians etc etc. |
| It gives him the chance to raise the numbers of 457 temporary workers brought in under Bill Shorten as workplace relations minister. Then he combines it with foreign electricians who have experience with generators, “in hot demand in South Australia”. | It gives him the chance to raise the numbers of 457 temporary workers brought in under Bill Shorten as workplace relations minister. Then he combines it with foreign electricians who have experience with generators, “in hot demand in South Australia”. |
| Geddit? May the gods save me ... | Geddit? May the gods save me ... |
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| Bowen to Morrison: Bowen asks about the Michelle Grattan report that the treasurer was responsible for the link between the NDIS and the omnibus. Bowen asks whether Morrison was thrown under the omnibus? | Bowen to Morrison: Bowen asks about the Michelle Grattan report that the treasurer was responsible for the link between the NDIS and the omnibus. Bowen asks whether Morrison was thrown under the omnibus? |
| Morrison does not answer the question but says Chris Bowen used to “parade himself around the board rooms”, pretending to be the reasonable face of Labor economic policy. | Morrison does not answer the question but says Chris Bowen used to “parade himself around the board rooms”, pretending to be the reasonable face of Labor economic policy. |
| This is a shadow treasurer who knows better but is under the thumb of a weak and unprincipled leader of the opposition who will say anything, and do anything, and it’s a shame that he signed up to it. | This is a shadow treasurer who knows better but is under the thumb of a weak and unprincipled leader of the opposition who will say anything, and do anything, and it’s a shame that he signed up to it. |
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| A government question to Christopher Pyne about energy. He talks about how Vili’s pies and cakes in Adelaide needs its own generator now to guarantee electricity supply. Vili’s has a fetching photo of Tony Abbott in a hairnet on its website. | A government question to Christopher Pyne about energy. He talks about how Vili’s pies and cakes in Adelaide needs its own generator now to guarantee electricity supply. Vili’s has a fetching photo of Tony Abbott in a hairnet on its website. |
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