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| Government vies for crossbench support on company tax cuts – politics live | Government vies for crossbench support on company tax cuts – politics live |
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| In a heartbreaking and detailed report, Amnesty International has named 13 officials in the Myanmar military it says have had a “key role in murder, rape and deportation” of the Rohingya population in the northern Rakhine state. | |
| It is pretty unusual for Amnesty to name people in its reports, but in “We Will Destroy Everything”: Military Responsibility for Crimes against Humanity in Rakhine State, Myanmar, the human rights watchdog calls for the situation in Myanmar to be referred to the international criminal court for investigation and prosecution. | |
| But it also calls for the international community to start taking the situation seriously – including Australia. The organisation’s crisis campaigns co-ordinator, Diana Sayed, said “Australia must suspend all military co-operation and assistance with the Myanmar military”. | |
| Australia has announced a further $18.4m in assistance for the 900,000 Rohingya living in Cox’s Bazar, with more than 700,000 people believed to have fled Myanmar since August 2017. That brings Australia’s contribution to $70m since September 2017. | |
| The monsoon season is about to begin, which is about to cause conditions in the camps to deteriorate even further. | |
| Speaking of the Greens, the party has released its industrial relations policy. | |
| The party has put together a list of things it would like to see changed: | |
| Adam Bandt said the policy extends beyond just changing the government: | |
| The Greens want laws that reduce inequality, tackle job insecurity and restore some basic rights. | |
| Kicking out Malcolm Turnbull is necessary but not sufficient. Without a progressive Senate, you can’t change the rules. It’s as simple as that. | |
| If we can kick Malcolm Turnbull out, these will be our guiding principles when negotiating and passing Labor’s IR bills through the Senate. | |
| Just like we did on penalty rates, the Greens will stand up for workers and hold Labor to account. | |
| As we said yesterday, the Liberals and Labor will have a conscience vote on the euthanasia motion due to be debated in the Senate (they mostly always do on these things now), but Lyle Shelton, who is hoping for a Senate spot in Queensland and is battling for the same voters as Malcolm Roberts, had a few things to say about One Nations’ position. | |
| He is now linking One Nation to the Greens: | |
| Conservatives will be disappointed today to learn that Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party is understood to be backing doctor-assisted suicide, a pet policy of the Greens. | |
| Conservatives party spokesman Lyle Shelton said many social conservatives had been attracted to the anti-establishment party but it was becoming clear it lacked clear principles. | |
| “Whether it is an inconsistent view on lower taxes or support for allowing doctors to kill their patients, One Nation does not present a principled platform for social and economic conservatives. | |
| “It’s one thing to be able to articulate the legitimate grievances people have with our broken political system, it is another to put forward a coherent and principled policy approach. | |
| “The Senate crossbench needs stable and clear-minded parliamentarians to take the fight up to the Greens and to stop the Coalition’s continued drift to the left.” | |
| The Australian has reported that it understands One Nation has given backing to a private senator’s bill put forward by libertarian senator David Leyonhjelm, with the support of the Greens, to overturn the ban on the territories legalising euthanasia. | |
| “Greens and extreme libertarians have always had similar policies on legalising drugs, abortion and euthanasia. Many social conservatives will be disappointed to see One Nation aligning itself with this unholy alliance’s euthansia agenda.” | |
| The Senate has got straight into the foreign interference laws - which will be passed, because Labor is supporting them. | |
| Malcolm Turnbull has done a doorstop where he had a lot to say about how wicked Bill Shorten is being for denying small and medium businesses a tax cut, and not much to say on Huawei. | |
| Turnbull: | |
| What Shorten is going to do, he’s going to hit them with higher taxes. This is an assault on jobs, it’s an assault on enterprise, it’s an assault on innovation and small and medium family businesses – that is the Labor way. That’s what Shorten is threatening and that’s why it’s vital to continue to back our national economic plan that is already delivering record jobs growth. | |
| Significantly, Turnbull did not rule out splitting the company tax cut package to give a tax cut to companies earning up to $500m: | |
| I’m not going to comment on negotiations with the Senate. We’ve found over the years the best way to approach them is privately, constructively and respectfully. | |
| On Huawei, the prime minister said the government “carefully considers national security when it come to telecommunications” but he would “not have a public discussion” about national security advice on Huawei. | |
| Asked if Huawei will have any role in the 5G network, Turnbull waxed lyrical about 5G as a big evolution of telecommunications, “a much more powerful, more pervasive technology” that enables the Internet of Everything. But on Huawei, he would say only “all of those matters are under very careful consideration”. | |
| Just on those tax cuts – they apply to businesses with a turnover between $10m and $50m, however the tax only applies to the profit, not the income. | |
| So this is a slightly odd comment from Pauline Hanson: | So this is a slightly odd comment from Pauline Hanson: |
| No, I have nothing to do with Bill Shorten about the corporate tax cuts. Remember, he wants to wind back the corporate tax cuts up to $50m back to $10m. He is speaking about the seat of Longman. I have a bus company up there that goes under if he winds back the corporate tax cuts back to $10m. He says he is for the battlers. It is all puff and wind. Do I like him? Do I trust him? No, I don’t trust him at all. | |
| Pauline Hanson says she is sticking by her (latest) decision on company tax cuts, but I think we all know she and the government are just waiting for the Longman byelection to tick over. | Pauline Hanson says she is sticking by her (latest) decision on company tax cuts, but I think we all know she and the government are just waiting for the Longman byelection to tick over. |
| The One Nation leader was on Nine’s Today show this morning, denying her decision has anything to do with the Longman: | The One Nation leader was on Nine’s Today show this morning, denying her decision has anything to do with the Longman: |
| Parliament finishes tomorrow, tomorrow night. Let’s see what the debate, where that leads and the discussions that are had and hopefully – and I promise the Australian people this is always about them and I am hoping to make the right decision for them and their future and the future generations. | Parliament finishes tomorrow, tomorrow night. Let’s see what the debate, where that leads and the discussions that are had and hopefully – and I promise the Australian people this is always about them and I am hoping to make the right decision for them and their future and the future generations. |
| Is it not easy to get it right. I don’t have, you know, the resources that the major political parties have and I have to take it on my gut feeling and I also have to take it on advice and listening to what I am hearing and also what I am trying to get for the people. | Is it not easy to get it right. I don’t have, you know, the resources that the major political parties have and I have to take it on my gut feeling and I also have to take it on advice and listening to what I am hearing and also what I am trying to get for the people. |
| I am really fighting for people to – and is it not all about me, it has nothing to do about me, it has nothing to do about the seat of Longman, about the byelection, that is just absolute rubbish. | I am really fighting for people to – and is it not all about me, it has nothing to do about me, it has nothing to do about the seat of Longman, about the byelection, that is just absolute rubbish. |
| It’s the penultimate day before the winter recess and everyone is starting to get a little antsy. | It’s the penultimate day before the winter recess and everyone is starting to get a little antsy. |
| The prime minister started the day in hi-vis – picking up the tools, and his attack against Labor’s decision to repeal the company tax cuts for businesses with a turnover between $10m and $50m. | The prime minister started the day in hi-vis – picking up the tools, and his attack against Labor’s decision to repeal the company tax cuts for businesses with a turnover between $10m and $50m. |
| That decision didn’t go through shadow cabinet. But Labor says it has been its position for some time. It is just being explicit about it now. | That decision didn’t go through shadow cabinet. But Labor says it has been its position for some time. It is just being explicit about it now. |
| Scott Morrison is now pushing for Labor to say what it will do about company tax cuts between $2m and $10m. After talking to Labor people yesterday, it looks like the party is leaning towards a no on that one, but it is not confirmed. Expect caucus to have a lot to say on it though, before the final decision is made. | Scott Morrison is now pushing for Labor to say what it will do about company tax cuts between $2m and $10m. After talking to Labor people yesterday, it looks like the party is leaning towards a no on that one, but it is not confirmed. Expect caucus to have a lot to say on it though, before the final decision is made. |
| Meanwhile, Pauline Hanson, who says she hasn’t flip-flopped on company tax cuts, in a speech that laid out, in her own words, out of her own mouth, all the different positions she has held – a flip flop, if you like – has resumed talks with the government on company tax. | Meanwhile, Pauline Hanson, who says she hasn’t flip-flopped on company tax cuts, in a speech that laid out, in her own words, out of her own mouth, all the different positions she has held – a flip flop, if you like – has resumed talks with the government on company tax. |
| Pauline Hanson says she hasn’t flip flopped on her support for Turnbull’s tax cuts for the banks. Watch this and decide for yourself. pic.twitter.com/AxspyavDry | Pauline Hanson says she hasn’t flip flopped on her support for Turnbull’s tax cuts for the banks. Watch this and decide for yourself. pic.twitter.com/AxspyavDry |
| Yesterday it was no flip flops. | Yesterday it was no flip flops. |
| Today it is : | Today it is : |
| I can imagine down in the chamber again [Labor is saying] she is flip-flopping – that is my prerogative and I will change my mind as many times as I want to ensure that I come up with the right decision. | I can imagine down in the chamber again [Labor is saying] she is flip-flopping – that is my prerogative and I will change my mind as many times as I want to ensure that I come up with the right decision. |
| It’s her party and she can flip-flop if she wants to. | It’s her party and she can flip-flop if she wants to. |
| Oh – and the Huawei boss is at the press club today. Which is timely, because the government is most likely about to ban the Chinese company from having anything to do with building the 5G network. John Lord, the chief of the Australian arm of the company, says there is nothing to worry about. | Oh – and the Huawei boss is at the press club today. Which is timely, because the government is most likely about to ban the Chinese company from having anything to do with building the 5G network. John Lord, the chief of the Australian arm of the company, says there is nothing to worry about. |
| We’ll bring you that, and everything else as this day rolls on. Mike Bowers has already filed his first pics – follow him at @mikepbowers and @mpbowers, and he may pop up in the story on @pyjamapolitics. | We’ll bring you that, and everything else as this day rolls on. Mike Bowers has already filed his first pics – follow him at @mikepbowers and @mpbowers, and he may pop up in the story on @pyjamapolitics. |
| You’ll find me @amyremeikis and in the comments. | You’ll find me @amyremeikis and in the comments. |
| I haven’t had a coffee yet, as I wrestle with the tech demons, so this should be fun. | I haven’t had a coffee yet, as I wrestle with the tech demons, so this should be fun. |
| Ready? Let’s go! | Ready? Let’s go! |