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Israel embassy and Indonesia free-trade deal separate discussions, Morrison says – politics live | Israel embassy and Indonesia free-trade deal separate discussions, Morrison says – politics live |
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Mathias Cormann asks that further questions be placed on the notice paper. | |
Penny Wong moves a motion to take note of answers – specifically the ones asked to Mathias Cormann about the free trade agreement with Indonesia and the ones asked by Kimberly Kitching about Melissa Price. | |
Barry O’Sullivan’s term in the Senate finishes up next year. | |
Here's the video of Nationals senator Barry O'Sullivan saying he is declaring his gender "to be a woman" so the left-wing people can no longer "attack" him over his anti-abortion views. pic.twitter.com/YzbOCWp0YC | |
The latest in today’s My Health Record kerfuffle – from Greg Hunt: | |
Today the government worked with the Senate crossbench to extend the opt-out period for My Health Record. | |
The opt-out period will be extended until January 31, 2019. However, it’s important to note that people can opt out at any time. | |
Labor’s plan to delay and derail the roll-out of the My Health Record was blocked today. | |
We thank the crossbench for not delaying this important policy change as Labor tried so desperately to do. | |
In comparison, the government’s focus is on strengthening the safety and privacy of health information in the My Health Record system. | |
The parliament is now considering further amendments to Labor’s original My Health Record legislation. | |
This includes tougher penalties for those that misuse the system, strengthening provisions to safeguard against domestic violence, prohibiting employers from requesting and using health information from an individual’s My Health Record. In addition, no health information or de-identified data is to be released to insurers. | |
These proposed amendments are in addition to the amendments announced in July, which have already passed the lower house. | |
They include that law enforcement agencies can only access a person’s My Health Record with a warrant or court order and anyone who chooses to cancel a record at any time will have that record permanently deleted. | |
My Health Record was designed to save lives. It can help prevent medication misadventures that see more than 230,000 people end up in hospital each year. | |
This is almost four times the annual number of people who are hospitalised as a result of motor vehicle accidents. | |
More than six million Australians already have a My Health Record and over 14,000 healthcare professional organisations are connected, including general practices, hospitals, pharmacies, diagnostic imaging and pathology practices. There has never been a reported security breach of the system. | |
The legislation to enable My Health Record to become an opt-out system passed the parliament unanimously in 2015 and received the unanimous support of both houses and the strong endorsement of Labor. | |
In addition all state and territory health ministers unanimously reaffirmed their support as recently as the August Coag Health Council. | |
The good news is there is only one more day of solo Senate question time. | |
The bad news is that there is still one more day of solo Senate question time. | |
Kimberly Kitching can barely contain her glee as she asks about the Concetta Fierravanti-Wells op-ed in the SMH, which included this assessment of Melissa Price: | |
It is therefore regrettable that our good work and practical support for the Pacific has been recently damaged by an environment minister on ‘L-plates’ through the unfortunate incident with former president Tong of Kiribati. It demonstrated a lack of diplomacy, understanding and respect for one of our nearest neighbours. | |
Fierravanti-Wells is very, very busy working on the papers on her desk. | |
Matt Canavan says Australia is very committed to the Pacific. | |
On the former president of Kiribati, Kitching asks if Canavan agrees with the assessment, and Canavan says he wants to “stress again the important relationship we have with our Pacific neighbours”. | |
Kitching asks if the minister (Price) will speak to Fierravanti-Wells on how to deal respectfully with our Pacific neighbours. | |
Canavan says she is a very strong advocate and will continue to play a very important role with strengthening relations with our Pacific neighbours. | |
Someone please make this stop. | |
Cory Bernardi has asked Marise Payne about funding going to two organisations in Afganistan, which is meant to be spent on education programs and is being used for what he says are “ghost programs”. | |
Payne says she’ll look into it (essentially). | |
Rex Patrick to Matt Canavan on energy prices. | Rex Patrick to Matt Canavan on energy prices. |
He asks him about Canavan’s previous spruiking of gas prices, and whether he has stopped talking about it because gas prices are now increasing. (This is after the Turnbull government stepped in with its “big stick” to make sure domestic supplies were increased.) | |
Canavan says gas prices have fallen this year but, yes, in recent months they have increased because of outside forces. | |
He says there have been reductions seen recently in north Asia which are flowing through to Australia and the government’s action means Australia has access to domestic supplies, before they are shipped off. | He says there have been reductions seen recently in north Asia which are flowing through to Australia and the government’s action means Australia has access to domestic supplies, before they are shipped off. |
This is one interpretation. | This is one interpretation. |
Labor’s plan to delay and derail the roll out of the My Health Record was blocked today. We thank the crossbench for not delaying this important policy change as Labor tried so desperately to do. | Labor’s plan to delay and derail the roll out of the My Health Record was blocked today. We thank the crossbench for not delaying this important policy change as Labor tried so desperately to do. |
Richard Di Natale is questioning Mathias Cormann over the Coalition’s (lack of) climate change policy. | Richard Di Natale is questioning Mathias Cormann over the Coalition’s (lack of) climate change policy. |
I could transcribe it but, honestly, there is nothing being learned here. The Greens want to know why there isn’t a plan to legislate emissions reductions, targets and all those other things that go along with a climate change policy. | I could transcribe it but, honestly, there is nothing being learned here. The Greens want to know why there isn’t a plan to legislate emissions reductions, targets and all those other things that go along with a climate change policy. |
Cormann says the government is doing great on this issue. | Cormann says the government is doing great on this issue. |
Catryna Bilyk’s supplementary question is on how many jobs has Scott Morrison been let go from. | Catryna Bilyk’s supplementary question is on how many jobs has Scott Morrison been let go from. |
Scott Ryan reminds the Senate that New Zealand is not part of the federation of Australia. | Scott Ryan reminds the Senate that New Zealand is not part of the federation of Australia. |
Not that any of it matters, because Mathias Cormann is just going to repeat the same answer, which translates to awesome Scott Morrison is awesome. | Not that any of it matters, because Mathias Cormann is just going to repeat the same answer, which translates to awesome Scott Morrison is awesome. |
Catryna Bilyk has the next question – it’s about the auditor general report into the Tourism Australia board, following Scott Morrison’s departure. She asks whether the New Zealand auditor general was also denied access to information. She asks how many inquiries were launched at this time. | |
From Malcolm Farr at News Corp a short time ago: | From Malcolm Farr at News Corp a short time ago: |
Labor is trawling through prime minister Scott Morrison’s previous roles as head of tourism in New Zealand and later Tourism Australia, which produced the controversial ‘Where The Bloody Hell Are You?” ad that made Lara Bingle a star. | |
Documents recently unearthed by Labor show that Mr Morrison was the political “hard man” at the centre of a tumultuous period for New Zealand tourism. | Documents recently unearthed by Labor show that Mr Morrison was the political “hard man” at the centre of a tumultuous period for New Zealand tourism. |
A 1999 New Zealand auditor general’s report challenged the future Australian prime minister’s handling of an independent review of the Office of Tourism and Sport (OTSp) where he was managing director. | A 1999 New Zealand auditor general’s report challenged the future Australian prime minister’s handling of an independent review of the Office of Tourism and Sport (OTSp) where he was managing director. |
Mathias Cormann says Labor is getting “desperate” because Scott Morrison is too effective. He says that as ministers, they are subject to inquiries every single day. And he’ll take the question on notice. | Mathias Cormann says Labor is getting “desperate” because Scott Morrison is too effective. He says that as ministers, they are subject to inquiries every single day. And he’ll take the question on notice. |