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Greens say needs-based school funding won't happen if Catholics get special deal – politics live Greens say needs-based school funding won't happen if Catholics get special deal – politics live
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Lucy Gichuhi says her father taught her to aim for the sun and land on the moon.
She talks about having no shoes as a child but she says she learned true poverty was being unable to freely choose your own destiny.
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Gichuhi says Australia has shown her the strength of diversity.
I learned how beautiful it is when differences bring us together...I am proud to be a black African Australian.
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Senator Lucy Gichuhi is making her first speech. She says she is proud to be the first black African senator in the Australian senate.
She was born and raised in Kenya.
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I should clarify this hours motion is taking hours because there was first a suspension motion, then a closure motion and now the hours motion.
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The hours motion is taking hours.
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The horrors.
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This is still going on.
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Notwithstanding the assumptions all around that the schools bill has support, there is still furious lobbying going on.
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The Senate is dividing now on the hours motion. Usually the government will have the numbers to change the hours of the Senate if they have the numbers for the bill itself.
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Former Keating govt minister Con Sciacca has died after a long battle with cancer. Loved by both sides. Always good for a yarn. #auspolFormer Keating govt minister Con Sciacca has died after a long battle with cancer. Loved by both sides. Always good for a yarn. #auspol
Very sad. He taught me new swear words. https://t.co/U4g4YGihQiVery sad. He taught me new swear words. https://t.co/U4g4YGihQi
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Tony Abbott is on 2GB is declining the invitation to call out Pauline Hanson’s comments suggesting autistic students should not be in mainstream class rooms. Tony Abbott is on 2GB declining the invitation to call out Pauline Hanson’s comments suggesting autistic students should not be in mainstream classrooms.
This is what Hanson said in the education debate.This is what Hanson said in the education debate.
These kids have a right to an education by all means, but if there’s a number of them these children should actually go into a special classroom, looked after and given that special attention.These kids have a right to an education by all means, but if there’s a number of them these children should actually go into a special classroom, looked after and given that special attention.
Most of the time the teacher spends so much time on them they forget about the child who wants to go ahead in leaps and bounds in their education, but are held back by those. Most of the time the teacher spends so much time on them they forget about the child who wants to go ahead in leaps and bounds in their education but are held back by those.
It’s no good saying we have to allow these kids to feel good about themselves and we don’t want to upset them and make them feel hurt.It’s no good saying we have to allow these kids to feel good about themselves and we don’t want to upset them and make them feel hurt.
Abbott says there is a whole “industry” outraged at Pauline Hanson and supporting Hanson and he is not going to buy in.Abbott says there is a whole “industry” outraged at Pauline Hanson and supporting Hanson and he is not going to buy in.
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Penny Wong speaks against the hours motion because we don’t know what the deal is.Penny Wong speaks against the hours motion because we don’t know what the deal is.
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George Brandis, leader of the government in the Senate, is varying the hours in the Senate to get the Gonski 2.0 bill through. If this motion passes, the Senate will sit until midnight tonight and tomorrow until the bill is dealt with.George Brandis, leader of the government in the Senate, is varying the hours in the Senate to get the Gonski 2.0 bill through. If this motion passes, the Senate will sit until midnight tonight and tomorrow until the bill is dealt with.
This is a rare opportunity for this Senate to break a decades-long dispute about school funding.This is a rare opportunity for this Senate to break a decades-long dispute about school funding.
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Message to Pauline:Message to Pauline:
The proof is in the pudding @PaulineHanson. Mainstreamed all the way now so many world firsts. A valued & loved man. Inclusion works.#autism pic.twitter.com/sVcWvEExUjThe proof is in the pudding @PaulineHanson. Mainstreamed all the way now so many world firsts. A valued & loved man. Inclusion works.#autism pic.twitter.com/sVcWvEExUj
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Lisa Singh is moving a pro-yoga motion in the Senate for the International Day of Yoga. pic.twitter.com/GLLsp1MGnCLisa Singh is moving a pro-yoga motion in the Senate for the International Day of Yoga. pic.twitter.com/GLLsp1MGnC
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Richard Di Natale says if the government wants to do a transition deal for the Catholics, the Greens will not support it.
There is additional funding for the Catholic sector under this model.
(But we have yet to see the details of the amendments for the crossbench.)
Hanson-Young jumps in to say one more thing.
It’s disgusting that Pauline Hanson thinks kids with autism should not be in our classrooms...what sort of woman is Pauline Hanson, what sort of mother? It is disgusting.
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Hanson-Young: we have secured more money for public schools and a national funding body. #auspol
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Richard Di Natale is being very cagey about the role of the Australian Education Union. He does not want to criticise the union’s role.
He says the AEU supported the four elements the Greens took into negotiations.
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After sweating blood, nothing.
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Richard Di Natale says he thought the negotiations with the government were going OK.
We thought those talks were progressing really well when the bells rang.
He says he thought the party was making progress on special funding for disabilities and ditching the deal done with the Catholic education sector.
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Greens: we cannot see needs based funding if the Catholics get a special deal
Greens leader Richard Di Natale and Sarah Hanson-Young are up now.
Di Natale says they are disappointed that the government have offered a special deal to the Catholic sector, which is a 12 month delay.
Di Natale says he literally found out about the crossbench deal when they were called from the negotiating room to the chamber for a vote.
Hanson-Young says there should be no special deals.
That means no special deals for the Catholics.
She says she always wanted to do the right thing by the public school sector, given she is a result of a public school and her daughter goes to a public school.
She says part of the reason Gonski 1.0 was not effective was that the “Catholics squealed like hell because they didn’t want the light shone in dark corners”.
We need to make sure public schools are the gold standard, not the safety net.
Hanson-Young says it seems needs based funding will not occur if the Catholic system get a special deal.
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Calla Walquist reports:
Two of the Turnbull government ministers who could face contempt of court proceedings have deleted tweets containing criticisms of the Victorian judiciary.
The human services minister, Alan Tudge, the health minister, Greg Hunt, and the assistant treasurer, Michael Sukkar, were ordered to appear before the Victorian court of appeal on Friday to explain comments they made to the Australian, describing the appeal bench as “hard-left activist judges” who were “divorced from reality” and conducting an “ideological experiment”.
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