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| Labor targets bank tax and school funding in question time – politics live | Labor targets bank tax and school funding in question time – politics live |
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| Further to the high five. | |
| @edhusicMP @mpbowers @gabriellechan I was preparing to defend myself from Chifley's chief heckler and basketball rookie! #iamscared | |
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| 06:44 | |
| Paul Karp | |
| Penny Wong has been asking the attorney general about Labor’s concern that MP David Gillespie’s eligibility to sit in parliament might fall foul of the same provision that struck out Bob Day. | |
| Labor has claimed there are possible parallels between Day - who had an indirect interest in the lease of his electorate office by the commonwealth - and Gillespie - who has an interest in a company that leases a shop to an Australia Post outlet.George Brandis tells Senate Estimates that Gillespie had sought legal advice from Guy Reynolds SC and he concluded there was “no section 44 issue at all”. | |
| Brandis said that on the advice and his own judgment of the law, the cases were “nowhere near” analogous. Gillespie has told the prime minister the conclusion of the advice. | |
| The attorney general said: | |
| In my own view, informed by the Bob Day high court decision, nothing in Gillespie’s arrangement goes remotely near section 44 because of the remoteness of his interest. | |
| 6.24am BST | |
| 06:24 | |
| Old mates, these two. | |
| Ed Husic tries to high 5 Minister Frydenberg who instead manoeuvres for a hand shake @gabriellechan @GuardianAus pic.twitter.com/OVTOdZOQd4 | |
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| Cash. Accrual. Details, details. | |
| Lalalalala... | |
| 6.13am BST | 6.13am BST |
| 06:13 | 06:13 |
| Tanya Plibersek is thrown out of the chamber. When Christopher Pyne rises, he says he is disappointed that Plibersek did not stay in the chamber, given she was going so well. Smirk. | Tanya Plibersek is thrown out of the chamber. When Christopher Pyne rises, he says he is disappointed that Plibersek did not stay in the chamber, given she was going so well. Smirk. |
| Speaker Smith warns him he can arrange he goes out and continues the conversation with TPlibs. ie I will throw you out. | Speaker Smith warns him he can arrange he goes out and continues the conversation with TPlibs. ie I will throw you out. |
| Pyne says no thanks even though TPlibs is good company. | Pyne says no thanks even though TPlibs is good company. |
| 6.06am BST | 6.06am BST |
| 06:06 | 06:06 |
| Plibersek to Turnbull: Given Victorian public schools face a $630m funding cut, according to the Victorian government’s own numbers, and with schools in Corangamite set to lose$12m over the next two years alone, how is this policy fair or needs-based? | Plibersek to Turnbull: Given Victorian public schools face a $630m funding cut, according to the Victorian government’s own numbers, and with schools in Corangamite set to lose$12m over the next two years alone, how is this policy fair or needs-based? |
| Turnbull says year on year, the funding growth is going to be 4.6% in 2018, 4.6% in 2019, 4.6 in 2020 and 4.3% in 2021. | Turnbull says year on year, the funding growth is going to be 4.6% in 2018, 4.6% in 2019, 4.6 in 2020 and 4.3% in 2021. |
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| 06:04 | 06:04 |
| Tanya Plibersek to Malcolm Turnbull: How is it fair or needs-based that in this budget Peel high school in the deputy prime minister’s electorate will lose $1.68m over the next two years while the Armidale School, with fees up to $20,000 per year, gets an extra $16.3m over the decade? | Tanya Plibersek to Malcolm Turnbull: How is it fair or needs-based that in this budget Peel high school in the deputy prime minister’s electorate will lose $1.68m over the next two years while the Armidale School, with fees up to $20,000 per year, gets an extra $16.3m over the decade? |
| Turnbull says Peel high school will receive over 10 years $8.5m in additional funding. The funding per student from the commonwealth is estimated at $4,171 and by 2027, it will be $6,659. | Turnbull says Peel high school will receive over 10 years $8.5m in additional funding. The funding per student from the commonwealth is estimated at $4,171 and by 2027, it will be $6,659. |
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| Ben Doherty | Ben Doherty |
| One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts has arrived in estimates and asked the immigration department secretary Mike Pezzullo to provide details on the number of Muslims allowed entry into Australia. | One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts has arrived in estimates and asked the immigration department secretary Mike Pezzullo to provide details on the number of Muslims allowed entry into Australia. |
| Pezzullo, wiping his eyes, he has been before the the committee for about 17 hours now, promises to take it on notice. The department’s information on religion is incomplete. | Pezzullo, wiping his eyes, he has been before the the committee for about 17 hours now, promises to take it on notice. The department’s information on religion is incomplete. |
| The pair has a short tete a tete about Roberts’s use of the phrase of “indiscriminate” to describe Australia’s immigration policy. Pezzullo says the terminology he has used is “non-discriminatory”. | The pair has a short tete a tete about Roberts’s use of the phrase of “indiscriminate” to describe Australia’s immigration policy. Pezzullo says the terminology he has used is “non-discriminatory”. |
| Roberts: “The overwhelming weight of terrorist acts are committed by people of the Islamic ideology.” | Roberts: “The overwhelming weight of terrorist acts are committed by people of the Islamic ideology.” |
| “I would put it slightly differently,” Pezzullo says, drawing a distinction between the religion of Islam and Islamist fundamentalism. | “I would put it slightly differently,” Pezzullo says, drawing a distinction between the religion of Islam and Islamist fundamentalism. |
| “Twenty years ago it was Irish, I might say,” Ian Macdonald chips in, terribly usefully. | “Twenty years ago it was Irish, I might say,” Ian Macdonald chips in, terribly usefully. |
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| Shorten to Turnbull: I refer to S.674 of the Corporations Act and Australian stock exchange listing rule 3.1 which requires corporations to provide accurate updates to the stock exchange on matters which may affect their share price. Inconveniently the figures that the banks have nominated they will have to pay is less than the prime minister’s budget forecast. What is it prime minister? Are the budget numbers wrong, or are the banks lying? | Shorten to Turnbull: I refer to S.674 of the Corporations Act and Australian stock exchange listing rule 3.1 which requires corporations to provide accurate updates to the stock exchange on matters which may affect their share price. Inconveniently the figures that the banks have nominated they will have to pay is less than the prime minister’s budget forecast. What is it prime minister? Are the budget numbers wrong, or are the banks lying? |
| Turnbull says Labor has to learn the difference between cash and accrual accounting. | Turnbull says Labor has to learn the difference between cash and accrual accounting. |
| I have never seen a more pathetic or confused attempt to try to throw dust in the obstacles in the way of the major bank levy. It may well be if the banks have a different view about it, different assumptions, they are entitled to express that. | I have never seen a more pathetic or confused attempt to try to throw dust in the obstacles in the way of the major bank levy. It may well be if the banks have a different view about it, different assumptions, they are entitled to express that. |
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| Bowen to Morrison: I refer the treasurer to his previous answer and I refer to Morgan Stanley’s note issued today which indicates the bank tax will raise $1bn in 2017-18. Given the government has gone from claiming it will raise $1.6bn yesterday by the prime minister to $1.2bn today by the treasurer, what will be the shortfall in the bank tax over the forward estimates? | Bowen to Morrison: I refer the treasurer to his previous answer and I refer to Morgan Stanley’s note issued today which indicates the bank tax will raise $1bn in 2017-18. Given the government has gone from claiming it will raise $1.6bn yesterday by the prime minister to $1.2bn today by the treasurer, what will be the shortfall in the bank tax over the forward estimates? |
| Morrison says: | Morrison says: |
| The banks and their advisers and their boards have all been provided with copies of the draft legislation and we have continued to consult with them over the course of the last week or so and that legislation will be introduced into this parliament during this sitting fortnight as I suggested. | The banks and their advisers and their boards have all been provided with copies of the draft legislation and we have continued to consult with them over the course of the last week or so and that legislation will be introduced into this parliament during this sitting fortnight as I suggested. |
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| Bowen to Morrison: it refers to his previous answer which he claimed the relevant figure that will be raised by the bank tax is $1.2bn this year. If that is the case, why did the prime minister yesterday tell the house that the net revenue received by the commonwealth shown in the fiscal balance impact is $1.6bn? Why is this tax so poorly implemented and why is this government so incompetent? | Bowen to Morrison: it refers to his previous answer which he claimed the relevant figure that will be raised by the bank tax is $1.2bn this year. If that is the case, why did the prime minister yesterday tell the house that the net revenue received by the commonwealth shown in the fiscal balance impact is $1.6bn? Why is this tax so poorly implemented and why is this government so incompetent? |
| Morrison repeats the cash and accrual figures. Then: | Morrison repeats the cash and accrual figures. Then: |
| The shadow treasurer has gone out to some accountant’s picnic and thinks somehow he has come back with some clever observation. All I know that the shadow treasurer is doing is running the lines of the banks. I don’t know how many bank executives you met with in the last couple of weeks? | The shadow treasurer has gone out to some accountant’s picnic and thinks somehow he has come back with some clever observation. All I know that the shadow treasurer is doing is running the lines of the banks. I don’t know how many bank executives you met with in the last couple of weeks? |
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| 05:41 | 05:41 |
| Chris Bowen to Scott Morrison: The budget forecasts that the bank tax will raise $1.6bn in its first year. The big four banks have reported it will cost them just $965m after tax in the first year. Does the treasurer stand by the forecast for the bank tax in the budget which he brought down just two weeks ago? | Chris Bowen to Scott Morrison: The budget forecasts that the bank tax will raise $1.6bn in its first year. The big four banks have reported it will cost them just $965m after tax in the first year. Does the treasurer stand by the forecast for the bank tax in the budget which he brought down just two weeks ago? |
| Scott Morrison does stand by them. | Scott Morrison does stand by them. |
| I do. | I do. |
| The cash gross estimate for 2017-18 is $1.2bn. | The cash gross estimate for 2017-18 is $1.2bn. |
| The accrual figure is $1.6bn. | The accrual figure is $1.6bn. |
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| The next government question is to social services minister Christian Porter on the Medicare rise to fund the NDIS. | The next government question is to social services minister Christian Porter on the Medicare rise to fund the NDIS. |
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| Bob Katter asks the energy and environment minister, Josh Frydenberg, if he will meet with the Queensland Labor government and get the Adani agreements sorted out, lest 500 million Indians go without lights and the world suffer as low grade Indian coal and cheap technology belches eruptions of CO2. | Bob Katter asks the energy and environment minister, Josh Frydenberg, if he will meet with the Queensland Labor government and get the Adani agreements sorted out, lest 500 million Indians go without lights and the world suffer as low grade Indian coal and cheap technology belches eruptions of CO2. |
| Frydenberg uses it to attack Bill Shorten and the Labor Herbert MP Cathy O’Toole, who he said met with Adani representatives when they announced Townsville would be the head office for the coalmine. | Frydenberg uses it to attack Bill Shorten and the Labor Herbert MP Cathy O’Toole, who he said met with Adani representatives when they announced Townsville would be the head office for the coalmine. |
| There’s some 11% unemployment in Townsville. Youth unemployment is some double that. And the member for Herbert has now gone quiet. And so with the leader of the opposition. The leader of the opposition goes to Townsville and says he’s all for jobs and he’s all for apprentices. But when he goes to the rest of the country, he says it’s too hard. | There’s some 11% unemployment in Townsville. Youth unemployment is some double that. And the member for Herbert has now gone quiet. And so with the leader of the opposition. The leader of the opposition goes to Townsville and says he’s all for jobs and he’s all for apprentices. But when he goes to the rest of the country, he says it’s too hard. |
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| Shorten to Turnbull: I refer to the bank tax which Labor will not stand in the way of. But I note concerns, reported in today’s media, there is a $2bn hole in the government’s bank tax. Does the PM stand by the forecasts on the bank tax. What it will raise in the budget, a budget handed down two weeks ago. Or is his budget already falling apart? | Shorten to Turnbull: I refer to the bank tax which Labor will not stand in the way of. But I note concerns, reported in today’s media, there is a $2bn hole in the government’s bank tax. Does the PM stand by the forecasts on the bank tax. What it will raise in the budget, a budget handed down two weeks ago. Or is his budget already falling apart? |
| Turnbull does not address any budget hole but rather accuses Labor of walking away from its commitments to the NDIS. | Turnbull does not address any budget hole but rather accuses Labor of walking away from its commitments to the NDIS. |
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| Dreyfus tries again. To Turnbull, yesterday the PM undertook to report to the House after he had taken advice from the commissioner of the Australian federal police, the minister for justice and the attorney general about revelations of One Nation irregularities. What can the PM report? | Dreyfus tries again. To Turnbull, yesterday the PM undertook to report to the House after he had taken advice from the commissioner of the Australian federal police, the minister for justice and the attorney general about revelations of One Nation irregularities. What can the PM report? |
| Turnbull says the One Nation matter (in the Ashby tapes) has been referred to the AFP so it would be inappropriate to comment. | Turnbull says the One Nation matter (in the Ashby tapes) has been referred to the AFP so it would be inappropriate to comment. |
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| Coalition asks a question on funding the National Disability Insurance Scheme. | Coalition asks a question on funding the National Disability Insurance Scheme. |
| It is a chance to attack Shorten on the NDIS. Malcolm Turnbull: | It is a chance to attack Shorten on the NDIS. Malcolm Turnbull: |
| Only yesterday, as he endeavoured to justify defying the wishes of the majority of his own shadow cabinet, defying the advice of his own colleagues to support the government’s decision to increase the Medicare levy by 50 basis points, instead of supporting that he’s wanted to differentiate himself and play the old politics to which he is so accustomed nowadays. | Only yesterday, as he endeavoured to justify defying the wishes of the majority of his own shadow cabinet, defying the advice of his own colleagues to support the government’s decision to increase the Medicare levy by 50 basis points, instead of supporting that he’s wanted to differentiate himself and play the old politics to which he is so accustomed nowadays. |
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| Labor opens question time on One Nation. | Labor opens question time on One Nation. |
| Mark Dreyfus to Malcolm Turnbull: This year there have been allegations that One Nation failed to declare the donation of $100,000 plane, adopted a constitution which breached electoral laws and conspired to defraud electoral authorities. When allegations against One Nation have been mounting for months, why is it that when Labor raised this issue yesterday, the PM had taken no action? Is the PM dragging his heels because he is more interested in One Nation preferences? | Mark Dreyfus to Malcolm Turnbull: This year there have been allegations that One Nation failed to declare the donation of $100,000 plane, adopted a constitution which breached electoral laws and conspired to defraud electoral authorities. When allegations against One Nation have been mounting for months, why is it that when Labor raised this issue yesterday, the PM had taken no action? Is the PM dragging his heels because he is more interested in One Nation preferences? |
| Speaker Smith does not allow the question in that form and there is no opportunity to rephrase. The Coalition gets the first question. | Speaker Smith does not allow the question in that form and there is no opportunity to rephrase. The Coalition gets the first question. |
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| 05:13 | 05:13 |
| Malcolm Turnbull: | Malcolm Turnbull: |
| This incident, this attack, is especially vile especially criminal, especially horrific because it appears to have been deliberately directed at teenagers. This is an attack on innocence. Surely there is no crime more reprehensible than the murder of children. This is a direct and brutal attack on young people everywhere, on freedom everywhere. | This incident, this attack, is especially vile especially criminal, especially horrific because it appears to have been deliberately directed at teenagers. This is an attack on innocence. Surely there is no crime more reprehensible than the murder of children. This is a direct and brutal attack on young people everywhere, on freedom everywhere. |
| Bill Shorten: | Bill Shorten: |
| What makes this different to a casualty on a battlefield is that you think when your kids go to listen to music, they would be safe. My eldest two are teenagers, they go to concerts, like so many here and so many elsewhere. When you see that shaky iPhone footage on that relentless 24-hour coverage, you see so many young people. | What makes this different to a casualty on a battlefield is that you think when your kids go to listen to music, they would be safe. My eldest two are teenagers, they go to concerts, like so many here and so many elsewhere. When you see that shaky iPhone footage on that relentless 24-hour coverage, you see so many young people. |
| They’re dressed to go out to a concert, to dance, to listen to music. And I can only begin to imagine the pain of parents wondering where their kids are when the first reports come out and the first texts and they realise that their family, their kids are at this concert. And I can only begin to dimly imagine the parents whose calls are being unanswered and the messages go through to that voicemail. And then I also think today – how do I explain this to my own kids? | They’re dressed to go out to a concert, to dance, to listen to music. And I can only begin to imagine the pain of parents wondering where their kids are when the first reports come out and the first texts and they realise that their family, their kids are at this concert. And I can only begin to dimly imagine the parents whose calls are being unanswered and the messages go through to that voicemail. And then I also think today – how do I explain this to my own kids? |
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