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| Turnbull on Shorten: 'biggest glass jaw in Australian politics' – politics live | |
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| Labor MP Tim Hammond is ejected. | |
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| Labor MP Graham Perrett gets leave pass. | |
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| Labor MP Mike Kelly gets the royal order of the boot. | |
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| Labor deputy Tanya Plibersek leaves the field. | |
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| Thursday afternoons get pretty loose. | |
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| Tony Burke to Malcolm Turnbull: I refer to his earlier answers where he has defended his industry minister describing One Nation as more sophisticated. Given it is now reported that One Nation, which the WA Liberal party will preference above the Nationals, of making hateful attacks on Muslims, Indigenous Australians, does the prime minister stand by his earlier answers? How long can the Turnbull government continue to pretend that One Nation is just like any other party? | |
| Turnbull compares One Nation to the Greens, given Labor preferences the Greens. | |
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| The reality is that particularly at the federal level, parties allocate preferences in their own interest, and when we allocate preferences, we do so for the purpose of ensuring that more Liberal and National members are elected to Parliament. That’s our objective. | |
| Then when Bill Shorten takes a point of order, Turnbull attacks Shorten directly, delivered with a level of venom. | |
| What we saw there was the biggest glass jaw in Australian politics. We had his snivelling personal explanation earlier in the week, almost bursting into tears that the mean people on the government side had said nasty things about him. | |
| He can’t take it and he can’t take the truth about his own hypocrisy, and there he is, standing up here, abusing the standing orders, defying the Speaker to give his torrent of abuse. Well, I will say this, Mr Speaker. | |
| If the honourable member for Watson wants to know what my views are or my party’s views are on those issues, then you look to us, and we stand for a non-discriminatory immigration program, we stand behind Australia, the most successful multicultural society in the world. We support the United States Alliance, the bedrock of our security, which is not what the Greens party supports. | |
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| Labor to Turnbull: The Melbourne Energy Institute has found that your plan to build new coal-fired power stations would cost $62bn. Given that this cost would have to be passed onto households, will the prime minister confirm the cost of his coal plan announced at the National Press Club as $62bn? | Labor to Turnbull: The Melbourne Energy Institute has found that your plan to build new coal-fired power stations would cost $62bn. Given that this cost would have to be passed onto households, will the prime minister confirm the cost of his coal plan announced at the National Press Club as $62bn? |
| Energy minister Josh Frydenberg takes the question and amongst an attack on Labor, notes that Anthony Albanese - the alternative opposition leader - supports clean coal technology. | Energy minister Josh Frydenberg takes the question and amongst an attack on Labor, notes that Anthony Albanese - the alternative opposition leader - supports clean coal technology. |
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| Social services minister Christian Porter gets a government question on the National Disability Insurance Scheme which allows him to talk about Labor’s costings from 2013. | Social services minister Christian Porter gets a government question on the National Disability Insurance Scheme which allows him to talk about Labor’s costings from 2013. |
| Porter says some of the savings Labor used to fund the NDIS were related to health insurance. | Porter says some of the savings Labor used to fund the NDIS were related to health insurance. |
| That saving was first announced on October 2012 with the member for Lilley [Wayne Swan] saying, “the saving taken will help rebalance the budget”. | That saving was first announced on October 2012 with the member for Lilley [Wayne Swan] saying, “the saving taken will help rebalance the budget”. |
| It was reannounced, it would be redirected to partially offset the cost of the dental health reform package and then reannounced in the budget glossy as being applied to the NDIS. | It was reannounced, it would be redirected to partially offset the cost of the dental health reform package and then reannounced in the budget glossy as being applied to the NDIS. |
| The member for Lilley didn’t spend is once, he didn’t spend it twice, he spent it three times. | The member for Lilley didn’t spend is once, he didn’t spend it twice, he spent it three times. |
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| Malcolm Turnbull on capital gains tax: it would be remiss not to examine all of those proposals | Malcolm Turnbull on capital gains tax: it would be remiss not to examine all of those proposals |
| Malcolm Turnbull leaves the door open to the possibility of modelling a capital gains tax increase. | Malcolm Turnbull leaves the door open to the possibility of modelling a capital gains tax increase. |
| The honourable member knows very well that Treasury officials look at a whole range of options, a whole range of studies. We get discussions from various parties, from various interest groups associated with the budget, and it would be remiss not to examine all of those proposals, and to pay respect to them as well. | The honourable member knows very well that Treasury officials look at a whole range of options, a whole range of studies. We get discussions from various parties, from various interest groups associated with the budget, and it would be remiss not to examine all of those proposals, and to pay respect to them as well. |
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| There is a government question on the need for assistance to provide more affordable childcare to assistant treasurer Kelly O’Dwyer. | There is a government question on the need for assistance to provide more affordable childcare to assistant treasurer Kelly O’Dwyer. |
| Shorten to Turnbull: Has the prime minister’s office, the treasurer’s office, or finance minister’s office, anyone junior in the Treasury’s office requested any advice or modelling to capital gains tax? | Shorten to Turnbull: Has the prime minister’s office, the treasurer’s office, or finance minister’s office, anyone junior in the Treasury’s office requested any advice or modelling to capital gains tax? |
| Turnbull: | Turnbull: |
| The business of government will not be delved into by this fishing expedition. | The business of government will not be delved into by this fishing expedition. |
| (Um, that is the point of question time.) | (Um, that is the point of question time.) |
| Labor’s Tony Burke jumps up. | Labor’s Tony Burke jumps up. |
| Ministerial responsibility according to practice. Why are we here? | Ministerial responsibility according to practice. Why are we here? |
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| Bowen to Morrison: Why should Australians believe the treasurer when he says the government is not considering changes to capital gains tax given that just this week the government claimed the National Disability Insurance Scheme which was at risk is not a risk, tax increases by the government are not being prepared by the government, the Abbott government zombie measures were being retained and also being dumped. How can this government provide economic leadership when the treasurer every day contradicts himself? | Bowen to Morrison: Why should Australians believe the treasurer when he says the government is not considering changes to capital gains tax given that just this week the government claimed the National Disability Insurance Scheme which was at risk is not a risk, tax increases by the government are not being prepared by the government, the Abbott government zombie measures were being retained and also being dumped. How can this government provide economic leadership when the treasurer every day contradicts himself? |
| Morrison: | Morrison: |
| Our position is crystal clear. We are working to bring the budget back to balance by 2021. | Our position is crystal clear. We are working to bring the budget back to balance by 2021. |
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