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| Adam Bandt decries Labor's 'jaw-dropping' opportunism on schools – politics live | Adam Bandt decries Labor's 'jaw-dropping' opportunism on schools – politics live |
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| The joy of estimates. | |
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| #Manchester bomber was the son of Muslim refugees. We must look honestly at the problem of 2nd generation Muslim radicalisation. #auspol | |
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| Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten have commemorated and celebrated the 1967 referendum, while saying there was still a long way to go to overcome Indigenous disadvantage. Many Indigenous campaigners attended the parliament, including on the floor of the house. | |
| Malcolm Turnbull says all security is under review at major events after the bombing in Manchester. The PM says he expects the review to be completed shortly and will go to the Council of Australian Governments meeting in July. | |
| A particularly offensive argument has been published on right wing magazine Quadrant’s website by Roger Franklin suggesting it would have been preferable to bomb the ABC’s Q&A. ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie has called for an apology and communications minister Mitch Fifield has described it as sick and unhinged. | |
| The cost of the proposed Snowy Hydro expansion could blow out to $2bn due to an upgrade to the poles and wires infrastructure. According to Senate estimates last night, the government knew this. | |
| Pauline Hanson has defended James Ashby, saying he was offered a One Nation senate seat but declined because he didn’t want to do anything to threaten Hanson’s election. | |
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| Arts Minister Mitch Fifield calls Quadrant comments on Manchester attack "sick and unhinged", says its a new low in public debate #estimates | Arts Minister Mitch Fifield calls Quadrant comments on Manchester attack "sick and unhinged", says its a new low in public debate #estimates |
| Communications Minister Mitch Fifield says he's just become aware of the Quadrant article and is pleased the ABC has condemned it #estimates | Communications Minister Mitch Fifield says he's just become aware of the Quadrant article and is pleased the ABC has condemned it #estimates |
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| Notice of something coming up just after 4pm: | Notice of something coming up just after 4pm: |
| The parliament’s tax and revenue committee will meet with the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) for public hearings into taxpayers’ engagement with the ATO. | The parliament’s tax and revenue committee will meet with the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) for public hearings into taxpayers’ engagement with the ATO. |
| Nat MP Kevin Hogan is the chair of that committee. Given the$165m Plutus ATO scandal the Committee will also consider the “robustness of ATO regulatory powers and practices to identify black economy traders and collect revenue due as payments systems go electronic”. | Nat MP Kevin Hogan is the chair of that committee. Given the$165m Plutus ATO scandal the Committee will also consider the “robustness of ATO regulatory powers and practices to identify black economy traders and collect revenue due as payments systems go electronic”. |
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| Adam Bandt: Labor's political opportunism jaw-dropping on schools | Adam Bandt: Labor's political opportunism jaw-dropping on schools |
| Adam Bandt calls on the government to fund Catholic schools directly – rather than calculating the funding and giving to the Catholic education offices in a lump sum – to ensure each school gets its fair share. | Adam Bandt calls on the government to fund Catholic schools directly – rather than calculating the funding and giving to the Catholic education offices in a lump sum – to ensure each school gets its fair share. |
| The Greens do not support Labor’s locking in law of ever-rising funding to wealthy schools that don’t need it. | The Greens do not support Labor’s locking in law of ever-rising funding to wealthy schools that don’t need it. |
| And it is jaw-dropping to watch Labor now become the staunch defenders of over-funded Catholic schools, showing this is just rank political opportunism by the ALP. | And it is jaw-dropping to watch Labor now become the staunch defenders of over-funded Catholic schools, showing this is just rank political opportunism by the ALP. |
| The Greens believe government should fund Catholic schools directly, put an end to using poorer Catholic schools to subsidise wealthier ones, and I challenge Labor to agree with us on that. | The Greens believe government should fund Catholic schools directly, put an end to using poorer Catholic schools to subsidise wealthier ones, and I challenge Labor to agree with us on that. |
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| Adam Bandt signals Greens won't be voting for schools package | Adam Bandt signals Greens won't be voting for schools package |
| After a bit of a fan dance by the Greens, Adam Bandt has underlined the party’s opposition to the government’s Gonski 2.0, forcing the government to negotiate with the entire Senate crossbench. | After a bit of a fan dance by the Greens, Adam Bandt has underlined the party’s opposition to the government’s Gonski 2.0, forcing the government to negotiate with the entire Senate crossbench. |
| He has also said Julie Gillard’s promise that no school would be worse off has entrenched inequities and undermined needs-based funding. | He has also said Julie Gillard’s promise that no school would be worse off has entrenched inequities and undermined needs-based funding. |
| I will not support cuts to funding to schools in my electorate and I will not support a reduction in funding to public schools around the country. | I will not support cuts to funding to schools in my electorate and I will not support a reduction in funding to public schools around the country. |
| We will use the Senate inquiry to shine a spotlight on this bill and consult with parents and teachers and their unions to determine what is needed to implement the original Gonski plan. | We will use the Senate inquiry to shine a spotlight on this bill and consult with parents and teachers and their unions to determine what is needed to implement the original Gonski plan. |
| We mustn’t forget that the Gillard Labor government’s promise that no private school would get a reduction in funding has exacerbated the inequities in funding. | We mustn’t forget that the Gillard Labor government’s promise that no private school would get a reduction in funding has exacerbated the inequities in funding. |
| The special deals for the Catholic education sector and other school systems and the refusal to legislate the funding increases to the states, despite the Gonski report’s recommendation to do so, are major failings of the Gillard Labor government arrangements. | The special deals for the Catholic education sector and other school systems and the refusal to legislate the funding increases to the states, despite the Gonski report’s recommendation to do so, are major failings of the Gillard Labor government arrangements. |
| As a result, what we currently have is not ‘needs-based funding’. | As a result, what we currently have is not ‘needs-based funding’. |
| He calls for a return to the original Gonski recommendations. | He calls for a return to the original Gonski recommendations. |
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| George Brandis: Trump's intelligence sharing is not a security risk to Oz | George Brandis: Trump's intelligence sharing is not a security risk to Oz |
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| Australian authorities have not reviewed intelligence-sharing arrangements with the US in light of the controversy surrounding Donald Trump’s loose lips.Pressure is mounting on the US president over interactions with Russia, including his reported disclosure of classified information with its foreign minister.“President Trump is not a security risk to Australia,” the attorney general, George Brandis, told a Senate hearing in Canberra on Wednesday, adding he was the democratically-elected leader of the nation’s most important ally and intelligence partner.Asked if the five eyes intelligence-sharing arrangement – between Australia, the US, UK, Canada and New Zealand – was as stable as it was before Trump’s victory, Brandis said: “Nothing has changed”.Greens senator Nick McKim argued the propensity of Trump to “blab” about things warranted Australia to reconsider providing the US with highly sensitive information.“Quite frankly, I’m astounded that events in the last couple of weeks have not resulted in a reconsideration of the intelligence that Australia shares with the US,” McKim said, noting reports other nations were withholding intelligence to the US. | Australian authorities have not reviewed intelligence-sharing arrangements with the US in light of the controversy surrounding Donald Trump’s loose lips.Pressure is mounting on the US president over interactions with Russia, including his reported disclosure of classified information with its foreign minister.“President Trump is not a security risk to Australia,” the attorney general, George Brandis, told a Senate hearing in Canberra on Wednesday, adding he was the democratically-elected leader of the nation’s most important ally and intelligence partner.Asked if the five eyes intelligence-sharing arrangement – between Australia, the US, UK, Canada and New Zealand – was as stable as it was before Trump’s victory, Brandis said: “Nothing has changed”.Greens senator Nick McKim argued the propensity of Trump to “blab” about things warranted Australia to reconsider providing the US with highly sensitive information.“Quite frankly, I’m astounded that events in the last couple of weeks have not resulted in a reconsideration of the intelligence that Australia shares with the US,” McKim said, noting reports other nations were withholding intelligence to the US. |
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| Arts Minister Mitch Fifield has ruled out selling the iconic painting Blue Poles despite the suggestion of one of his Liberal colleagues.Senator James Paterson last year said it was time to cash in the Jackson Pollock painting Gough Whitlam famously bought for the national gallery in the 1970s for $1.3 million, but now valued at about $350 million, to pay down federal debt.Senator Fifield told a Senate hearing in Canberra on Wednesday the government wouldn’t be selling the “destination” artwork, noting “decisions about the collection are ones for the council of the gallery”. | Arts Minister Mitch Fifield has ruled out selling the iconic painting Blue Poles despite the suggestion of one of his Liberal colleagues.Senator James Paterson last year said it was time to cash in the Jackson Pollock painting Gough Whitlam famously bought for the national gallery in the 1970s for $1.3 million, but now valued at about $350 million, to pay down federal debt.Senator Fifield told a Senate hearing in Canberra on Wednesday the government wouldn’t be selling the “destination” artwork, noting “decisions about the collection are ones for the council of the gallery”. |
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| ABC boss Michelle Guthrie says Quadrant sunk to new low in debate | ABC boss Michelle Guthrie says Quadrant sunk to new low in debate |
| Managing director of the ABC, Michelle Guthrie has demanded an apology and removal from Quadrant magazine. | Managing director of the ABC, Michelle Guthrie has demanded an apology and removal from Quadrant magazine. |
| Quadrant promotes itself as ‘the leading general intellectual journal of ideas’. Those words ring hollow in the wake of last night’s vicious and offensive attack on the ABC, its staff and its program guests. | Quadrant promotes itself as ‘the leading general intellectual journal of ideas’. Those words ring hollow in the wake of last night’s vicious and offensive attack on the ABC, its staff and its program guests. |
| To take issue with our programming and our content is one thing. But to express the wish that, if there were any justice, the horrific terrorist bombing in Manchester would have taken place in the ABC’s Ultimo studio and killed those assembled there is a new low in Australian public debate. | To take issue with our programming and our content is one thing. But to express the wish that, if there were any justice, the horrific terrorist bombing in Manchester would have taken place in the ABC’s Ultimo studio and killed those assembled there is a new low in Australian public debate. |
| This was part of the offending piece. | This was part of the offending piece. |
| Life isn’t fair and death less so. Had there been a shred of justice, that blast would have detonated in an Ultimo TV studio. Unlike those young girls in Manchester, their lives snuffed out before they could begin, none of the panel’s likely casualties would have represented the slightest reduction in humanity’s intelligence, decency, empathy or honesty. | Life isn’t fair and death less so. Had there been a shred of justice, that blast would have detonated in an Ultimo TV studio. Unlike those young girls in Manchester, their lives snuffed out before they could begin, none of the panel’s likely casualties would have represented the slightest reduction in humanity’s intelligence, decency, empathy or honesty. |
| It has since been amended to this. | It has since been amended to this. |
| Life isn’t fair and death less so. What if that blast had detonated in an Ultimo TV studio? Unlike those young girls in Manchester, their lives snuffed out before they could begin, none of the panel’s likely casualties would have represented the slightest reduction in humanity’s intelligence, decency, empathy or honesty. | Life isn’t fair and death less so. What if that blast had detonated in an Ultimo TV studio? Unlike those young girls in Manchester, their lives snuffed out before they could begin, none of the panel’s likely casualties would have represented the slightest reduction in humanity’s intelligence, decency, empathy or honesty. |
| Guthrie will appear at senate estimates tonight. | Guthrie will appear at senate estimates tonight. |
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| Warrior Wong demolishes glass with bare hands. | Warrior Wong demolishes glass with bare hands. |
| **CLEAN UP IN COMMITTEE ROOM**@SenatorWong assures #estimates she didn't break the glass pic.twitter.com/b8sN1qKn3P | **CLEAN UP IN COMMITTEE ROOM**@SenatorWong assures #estimates she didn't break the glass pic.twitter.com/b8sN1qKn3P |
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| The education debate continues in the lower house. | The education debate continues in the lower house. |
| It largely consists of Labor MPs reading out how much their local schools would lose if the Coalition’s school funding package goes ahead compared with Labor’s promised funding plan. | It largely consists of Labor MPs reading out how much their local schools would lose if the Coalition’s school funding package goes ahead compared with Labor’s promised funding plan. |
| Liberal MPs are arguing the plan brings the needs-based funding formula closer into line with the original Gonski report. | Liberal MPs are arguing the plan brings the needs-based funding formula closer into line with the original Gonski report. |
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| Birmingham: the media are mostly nice people but can be tricky sometimes. #auspol @gabriellechan | Birmingham: the media are mostly nice people but can be tricky sometimes. #auspol @gabriellechan |
| Birmingham: "my favourite colour is... green". Not blue. Green. "I suspect it's because of the environment, trees, grass" @gabriellechan | Birmingham: "my favourite colour is... green". Not blue. Green. "I suspect it's because of the environment, trees, grass" @gabriellechan |
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| Friend of the blog, Anna Vidot of the ABC, is reporting from the rural affairs estimates. | Friend of the blog, Anna Vidot of the ABC, is reporting from the rural affairs estimates. |
| Wow.HALF the prawns coming into Australia were infected with #whitespot, Dept Ag says its OperationCatti report shows. #estimates #auspol | Wow.HALF the prawns coming into Australia were infected with #whitespot, Dept Ag says its OperationCatti report shows. #estimates #auspol |
| This is based on what the Dept knew at the time, and "retrofits knowledge" they have now, #estimates was told. #whitespot | This is based on what the Dept knew at the time, and "retrofits knowledge" they have now, #estimates was told. #whitespot |
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| Birmingham: "it took me several tries to get into parliament". Try try try again! #auspol @gabriellechan pic.twitter.com/aBCXcJfMmo | Birmingham: "it took me several tries to get into parliament". Try try try again! #auspol @gabriellechan pic.twitter.com/aBCXcJfMmo |
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| Hey diddle diddle... | Hey diddle diddle... |
| Simon Birmingham reading on school visit to Queenbeyan Public School #auspol ping @gabriellechan pic.twitter.com/ZEE4m7ABdP | Simon Birmingham reading on school visit to Queenbeyan Public School #auspol ping @gabriellechan pic.twitter.com/ZEE4m7ABdP |
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| In the house, we are back to the school funding package. | In the house, we are back to the school funding package. |
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| This is weird. | This is weird. |
| While #estimates enjoys morning tea, let us ponder this: ~a TONNE of meat was seized from intl passengers at GoldCoast airport ALONE last yr | While #estimates enjoys morning tea, let us ponder this: ~a TONNE of meat was seized from intl passengers at GoldCoast airport ALONE last yr |