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| One Nation media deal cannot be delivered, Greens and Xenophon say – question time live | |
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| Mark Dreyfus to Julie Bishop: Yesterday, the Foreign Minister refused to accept the conservative internal affairs minister of New Zealand was telling the truth when he said it was media inquiries that prompted the response to Deputy Prime Minister’s citizenship. On what basis did the Foreign Minister call the internal affairs minister of New Zealand a liar? | |
| Julie Bishop: | |
| The questions from the Fairfax media, in fact, do not give rise to an obligation on the part of in New Zealand government to answer it. But as Senator well knew, as her chief of staff well knew, it was raising questions in the parliament that put an obligation on the New Zealand government to act. | |
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| Tom McIlroy at Fairfax has the most extraordinary story. He reports: | |
| The Trump administration has listed Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party as a threat to religious freedom in a new report released in Washington. | |
| Secretary of State Rex Tillerson released the annual assessment of religious persecution and intolerance on Wednesday, using a chapter on Australia to highlight Senator Hanson’s 2016 maiden speech to the Senate in which she claimed the country was “in danger of being swamped by Muslims”. | |
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| Oh that Bowers... | |
| Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce grits his teeth through another #qt @gabriellechan @GuardianAus #politicslive pic.twitter.com/HlfxhT9lYp | |
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| Greens MP Adam Bandt asks a question which starts with congrats to the Yarra council on moving citizenship ceremonies. | |
| Bandt to former environment minister Greg Hunt for Josh Frydenberg who is away: During a recent debate about coal, climate change and the Great Barrier Reef in this chamber, one of your backbenchers, and I quote from Hansard, said, “There is nothing wrong with the reef, I live on the reef”. Will you condemn it or is it your official position? Is it why you are happy to bankroll the Adani coalmine, using the drug dealer’s defence: if we do not give other countries our product, someone else will? And with Adani under investigation for siphoning money into offshore tax havens, why are you leaving a questionable minister in charge? | |
| Greg Hunt says the government is the best manager of the reef in the entire universe. (Or thereabouts.) | |
| We inherited five major dredge disposal projects on the reef and we ended them all. We banned capital dredge disposal in the Great Barrier Reef, which had been a practice for over 100 years, right through the Greens’ partnership with the ALP ... they are environmental frauds. | |
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| Labor’s Tony Burke bowls up a piss-take question to Julie Bishop: Would the minister for foreign affairs please tell the house some more about the evil, treacherous conspiracy she has exposed in this house time and again? | |
| Bishop walks to the dispatch box with a face like stone. | |
| The hubris of the Australian Labor party on this issue is extraordinary. Apparently, the Labor party believes that they are above the law. There is one rule for the Labor party and one rule for the rest of Australia. Craig Thomson was allowed to sit in this parliament when he was in clear breach of the law. The leader of the opposition condones the lawlessness of his unions. The Labor party have breached the most fundamental international principle and they laugh about it? | |
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| And with the second government question to foreign affairs minister Julie Bishop we are back to foreign conspiracies. | |
| As the New Zealand media are reporting, the New Zealand government is under no obligation to answer questions from the Australian media, but as soon as the questions were put on notice in the New Zealand parliament, the New Zealand government had an obligation, a legal obligation, to answer. So the Australian Labor party set up the New Zealand government. As Prime Minister Bill English said, these are serious issues. | |
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| Shorten to Turnbull: Why then did the government refer the deputy prime minister to the high court? | |
| The PM says he has answered the question on more than one occasion. | |
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| Shorten to Turnbull: Can the prime minister guarantee to the house that he is leading a majority government that meets all of the requirements of the Constitution? | |
| Yes. | |
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| Bill Shorten jokes that he thought he was in Yarra council, drawing heckles from the government benches. His answer is more nuanced, weaving a careful way through the issues and constituencies. | |
| There is no doubt, even before the prime minister spoke, that Australia Day is a most important national day. It does commemorate the first British penal colony established in Australia. And it also, I believe, is a source of great celebration for Australians right up to the current day. But it does also acknowledge, as the prime minister said, that for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the 26th can speak of dispossession and sorrow. It also needs to recognise, I believe, that before the British settlement there were 65,000 years of continuous occupation by the world’s oldest continuing culture, in our country. Now, I do not support changing the date of Australia Day. | |
| It is a day of citizenship ceremonies, of looking to the future, of celebrating all our cultures and faiths and traditions. And the member for Barton [Linda Burney], for example, has spoken most eloquently about this. | |
| Reconciliation is more about changing hearts and minds than it is about moving public holidays. But, of course, if we look at national days important in the history of this country, there is March 1,1901, when the Australian parliament, the Australian nation, came into being, when our old friend the Constitution came into being. And there is, of course, another potential national public holiday, which has not yet been gazetted. And that will be when we finally have an Australian head of state. | |
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| Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese yells, | |
| prime minister responds to Yarra Council! | |
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| Labor MP. | |
| What crock of shite #qt delayed for this crap.#auspol Do a Min statement | |
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| Malcolm Turnbull asks to make a statement on indulgence about Australia Day following the Melbourne council’s decision (the city of Yarra) to stop holding citizenship ceremonies on January 26. | |
| We recognise that the history of European settlement in Australia has been complex and tragic for Indigenous Australians. We recognise the complexities and the challenges of our history. But on Australia Day, we recognise the greatness of our achievement as Australians. | |
| We recognise the remarkable nation we have become. We recognise and honour our first Australians and our newest migrant citizens. We bring all that together in a day that is uniquely and proudly Australian and that is why, Mr Speaker, my government and every government before me, in this house, has urged Australians to celebrate Australia Day. | |
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| We have a condolence motion on Liberal senator Brian Gibson. | We have a condolence motion on Liberal senator Brian Gibson. |
| Then on to questions. | Then on to questions. |
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| What meme is that? | What meme is that? |
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| Question time coming up. | Question time coming up. |