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| Cathy McGowan introduces national integrity commission bill – question time live | |
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| Further statements of indulgence on the Melbourne attack are moved to the Federation chamber. | |
| Scott Morrison tells us that Christian Porter will be answering Peter Dutton’s questions. | |
| And then, we get to those questions. | |
| Bill Shorten thanks Scott Morrison for his words and begins delivering his own statement on the Bourke Street attack. | |
| Labor’s shadow attorney general Mark Dreyfus has suggested the parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security could adopt a third way somewhere between Peter Dutton’s call for it to recommend passage of the bill immediately and delaying the bill with further consideration. | |
| At the conclusion of Monday’s hearing, Dreyfus asked for a view on the feasibility of allowing agencies with counter-terror functions to gain new powers to request assistance to access telecommunications, but not other agencies. | |
| He noted that 21 agencies have powers to intercept communications but not all have counter-terror functions, such as anti-corruption bodies. | |
| The head of the home affairs department, Michael Pezzullo, said the change would require amendments to carve out other agencies, and the debate would likely “circle back to the same points of principle” when it considered their powers at a later date. | |
| “If that’s what committee decides ... it’s not a complex drafting change, no,” he replied. | |
| Liberal chair of the committee, Andrew Hastie, notes the interception agencies also need the powers for counter-espionage. | |
| The committee then adjourned to consider whether the bill is urgent and to expedite its consideration. | |
| Scott Morrison begins by making a statement on indulgence on the Victorian terror attack. | |
| David Littleproud has just had “minister assisting the prime minister” on the drought added to his responsibilities. | |
| “What about your envoy” a Labor wag yells. | |
| That envoy, is of course, Barnaby Joyce. | |
| Annnnnd here he comes. Scott Morrison walks in, alone, just as Tim Watts says the government had spent more time “trying to make the member for Dickson prime minister” than it did campaigning in Victoria. | |
| MPs are slowly dripping in. All the cameras are waiting for Scott Morrison, who is yet to make his appearance. | |
| It’s time to play ‘who’s that MP’ and it’s... | |
| Nicolle Flint. | |
| I am heading into the chamber for question time, so hit me up with your predictions below. | |
| Just to be clear – the government voted (on the voices) in support of a federal Icac. It did not vote in support of the crossbench’s bill. | |
| So it is saying yes to considering a federal integrity commission, but Christian Porter made it clear he does not like the model which has been presented. | |
| The debate on the bill is still to come. | |
| https://t.co/CzXk4THg9V The Government didn’t have the numbers to stop a motion for a federal integrity commission. It’s good to see the now power-sharing Parliament reflect the will of the people but don’t hold your breath that this Government will act on it. #auspol #politas | https://t.co/CzXk4THg9V The Government didn’t have the numbers to stop a motion for a federal integrity commission. It’s good to see the now power-sharing Parliament reflect the will of the people but don’t hold your breath that this Government will act on it. #auspol #politas |
| We are on the downhill slide to QT. And it is promising to be a doozy. | We are on the downhill slide to QT. And it is promising to be a doozy. |
| Scott Morrison still has not commented (publicly) on the Victorian election result. | Scott Morrison still has not commented (publicly) on the Victorian election result. |
| Tony Burke had a few things to say to the House this morning: | Tony Burke had a few things to say to the House this morning: |
| I rise today to refer to what ethnic community functions are going to see happen over the next few months. | I rise today to refer to what ethnic community functions are going to see happen over the next few months. |
| After we have had a government that has run fear campaigns around people of Chinese background, fear campaigns around people of African background and fear campaigns around people whose faith is Islam, we now go through the season in the lead-up to an election where members of the government turn up to function after function and say, ‘By the way, we weren’t talking about you.’ | After we have had a government that has run fear campaigns around people of Chinese background, fear campaigns around people of African background and fear campaigns around people whose faith is Islam, we now go through the season in the lead-up to an election where members of the government turn up to function after function and say, ‘By the way, we weren’t talking about you.’ |
| This is where they turn up, function after function, and say: ‘Oh, no, no. When we say we’re going to do all these things to immigration, we are talking about those other people, not about you.’ | This is where they turn up, function after function, and say: ‘Oh, no, no. When we say we’re going to do all these things to immigration, we are talking about those other people, not about you.’ |
| I simply want to make clear here in the House today that no one should think that dog whistling works anymore. The concept that you can give a coded message and it will only be heard by certain people in the community is not how things work any more. They’re not dog whistles; they’re foghorns. | I simply want to make clear here in the House today that no one should think that dog whistling works anymore. The concept that you can give a coded message and it will only be heard by certain people in the community is not how things work any more. They’re not dog whistles; they’re foghorns. |
| Everybody knows what the government is up to when it uses those so-called coded messages. People will not forget a government that tried to introduce, as a condition of citizenship, that you would have to pass a university-level English test – but not everyone is going to have to pass a university-level English test. | Everybody knows what the government is up to when it uses those so-called coded messages. People will not forget a government that tried to introduce, as a condition of citizenship, that you would have to pass a university-level English test – but not everyone is going to have to pass a university-level English test. |
| If you came from an English-speaking country, you might have to pass a university-level English test; you might not. | If you came from an English-speaking country, you might have to pass a university-level English test; you might not. |
| There are about 50 countries in the world where English is an official or regular language there, but only five of those countries were exempt from the university-level test, and they just happened to be the five white English-speaking countries: Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand. | There are about 50 countries in the world where English is an official or regular language there, but only five of those countries were exempt from the university-level test, and they just happened to be the five white English-speaking countries: Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand. |
| You can be speaking English your entire life and come from Singapore and you’ll need university-level English under the law that those opposite all voted for; but, if you come from Canada, you won’t. That is how they have behaved this term. | You can be speaking English your entire life and come from Singapore and you’ll need university-level English under the law that those opposite all voted for; but, if you come from Canada, you won’t. That is how they have behaved this term. |
| When people go to vote at the next election, they need to remember not the fact that the government, over the last few months, will have suddenly said all the right things at community events, but the fact that this government has behaved this way the entire term and will be trading preferences with Pauline Hanson at the election. | When people go to vote at the next election, they need to remember not the fact that the government, over the last few months, will have suddenly said all the right things at community events, but the fact that this government has behaved this way the entire term and will be trading preferences with Pauline Hanson at the election. |
| Nevertheless we call on the government cooperate with us and the crossbench to get this done properly, and as soon as possible. @cporterwa needs to step out of his bizarre denialism - let's get to work! #auspol (2/2) | Nevertheless we call on the government cooperate with us and the crossbench to get this done properly, and as soon as possible. @cporterwa needs to step out of his bizarre denialism - let's get to work! #auspol (2/2) |