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| Cathy McGowan introduces national integrity commission bill – question time live | Cathy McGowan introduces national integrity commission bill – question time live |
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| Mark Dreyfus to Scott Morrison: | |
| The Prime Minister voted against the banking Royal Commission 26 times before claiming it was his idea. | |
| He supported the National Energy Guarantee before he opposed it. Now he can’t say whether he supports a national integrity commission. How can Australians know when this Prime Minister is actually committed to something with his just pretending? | |
| Morrison: | |
| (Who has upgraded his shouting to the Sharks being down two with three minutes on the clock) | |
| I’m not going to be lectured on integrity by the Labor Party. The party of Craig Thompson, the party of Sam Dastyari, the party of Joe Tripodi, the party of WA Inc. This is the only Australian political party that can open up branches in prisons because it has enough people in them who have been convicted of corrupt conduct. | |
| This is a Labor Party that knows all about market because they live their lives in it. That is the Labor Party Australians have gotten to know, and more. | |
| Whether it was Rex Jackson all those years going all the way through to Eddie Obeid. And the member for Watson, we always remembered the ski trip you had down at Eddie Obeid’s place, saying, I just went there, we are not that close, I just went down there to spend a bit of time at Eddie’s Place. | |
| The Labor Party, when it comes to integrity, give me a break. | |
| Could someone please let the government backbench know that this year, like all others, will end. | |
| They look like they need some light at the end of the tunnel today. Goodness me. Anyone would think they just witnessed Collingwood lose a grand final. | |
| Ken O’Dowd inflicts a Michael McCormack dixer on us. | |
| He starts with “picture this”. | |
| “No,” says someone from Labor. | |
| It has to be said that the deputy prime minister could learn a thing or two from Sophia Petrillo. If you are going to invoke a Golden Girl, you will be judged by the standards of that Golden Girl, at least in my world. | |
| Bill Shorten to Scott Morrison: | |
| If you think the national integrity commission is a fringe issue, why did you say you’ve been working on it for months, and why did you vote for it today?” | |
| Morrison: | |
| (Who is back to full shoutyness) | |
| We will continue to cover the field, Mr Speaker, in interests of all Australians and what is quite clear is we are yet to see a policy from those opposite that will do anything useful to the economy and as a result, Mr Speaker, that is why Australia and do not trust this leader of the opposition! | |
| “We see it! It has been five years now, Mr Speaker! | |
| “Five years they have had a good look at this leader of the opposition! | |
| “And after five years, they are not buying, Mr Speaker! They are not buying this leader of the opposition because they know they cannot trust the leader of the Labor party to run a strong economy!” | |
| Josh Frydenberg is trying to give a dixer, but keeps being interrupted by Chris Bowen who is yelling “we are going to run an 18-year-old against you, Josh”. That’s in reference to Labor almost winning Brighton, a blue-ribbon Victorian state seat, with a 19-year-old candidate who spent less than $2,000 on his campaign. | |
| Kerryn Phelps looks like she is currently questioning all her life decisions which have brought her to this place, at this moment, right now, and I don’t blame her. | |
| She is watching these proceedings quite stony-faced. | |
| To be fair, this is not a great example of the genre today. Not by a long shot. | |
| Adam Bandt has the crossbench question: | |
| This Friday many thousands of students across the country will go on strike from school, calling for emergency action on climate change. These brave and courageous kids are joining young people around the world who are angry at the failure of governments, including yours, to secure their future from global warming. Prime minister, will you join me in praising these students for having a go? And will he meet with and listen to these kids who are demanding action from the government to keep coal in the ground?” | |
| Scott Morrison: | |
| Climate change is a very real and serious issue which demands the attention of government at all levels. | |
| “And it has the attention of this government through the emissions reduction fund, the renewal energy target, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, our Snowy 2.0 initiative, and energy-efficiency measures, and our commitment to 26% of emissions reduction target, which we remain committed to. We are committed to all of these things but I will tell you what we are also committed to, kids should go to school! | |
| “That is what we are committed to! We don’t support the idea of kids not going to school … for things that can be dealt with outside of school. | |
| “Each day I send my kids to school and I know other kids should also go to school but we do not support our schools being turned into parliaments, Mr Speaker. | |
| “We think kids should be in school. | |
| “About whether it is those issues, maths, science, English, literature, Indigenous history, Australian history, Mr Speaker! That is what they should be there doing. | |
| “And so what we want is more learning in schools and less activism in schools!” | |
| Morrison appears quite pleased with this answer, and turns around to Michael McCormack with a grin. | |
| Cos yeah, that’ll show those kids. | |
| Bill Shorten to Scott Morrison: | |
| Why did the government vote to support a national integrity commission, when it still hasn’t decided if it wants one. | |
| There are lols from the Labor bench. | |
| Morrison: | |
| “The government is considering its position …” | |
| Morrison continues, but he is again drowned out by the Labor benches. | |
| He tries again with the Canberra-bubble issues. | |
| But it says something about this leader of the opposition Mr Speaker, of all the issues that he wants to bring into this chamber, but when it comes to families and small businesses that are struggling to deal with getting access to finance all families that are dealing with electricity prices, at the issues that he wants to raise, Mr Speaker, they don’t relate to these. | |
| “He does not want to come in here and talk about how he has failed ... a reheat of what was happening last time when they were in government, he doesn’t want to come here and talk about or explain or ask questions about what would be the impact of putting a 45% reckless target on emissions reduction which would, Mr Speaker, put in place a carbon price 10 times worse, 10 times worse than the carbon tax that we had to abolish when we came to government. | |
| “He doesn’t want to talk about the higher subsidies that he wants to give to big electricity companies paid for by Australians who have to pay higher taxes as a result of what the leader of the opposition wants to inflict on the Australian economy while the leader of the opposition is off on some sort of fringe issue, Mr Speaker, what we are focused on, what we are focused on Mr Speaker is the strength of our economy because that is what delivers the services, Medicare, disability insurance, support for veterans, defence force support, that is what delivers it!” | |
| Next up with a dixer is Trevor Evans, the Brisbane MP, who is under threat from the Greens. | |
| There is a bit of a teal tinge popping up in inner Brisbane suburbs – blue seats, with environmentally conscious voters. | |
| Josh Frydenberg is giving his best impression of a non-broken man, but is not overly convincing. | |
| Again, none of this is helped by the very, very subdued backbench behind him. | |
| Bill Shorten to Scott Morrison: | |
| Does the government support a national integrity commission, yes or no? | |
| Morrison: | |
| I refer the leader of the opposition to the answer given by the attorney general. He’s already been working on these matters is several months and we are following our process through the cabinet process and that’s how things be done. | |
| We are not going to engage in half-baked ideas from the opposition, whether it’s what they are throwing around in this chamber or whether it’s the pink batteries claim. Remember pink batts? We now have pink batteries, that’s what we got from the leader of the opposition and the Labor party who have learnt nothing from their time in opposition. All the failures from when they were last in government, it’s just a distant memory to them and they haven’t learned a thing. | |
| Shorten comes in with a yes-or-no point of order. | |
| Morrison: | |
| I addressed it and said we have a cabinet process to address it in a way that is prudent, responsible and works to all the unintended consequences and makes sure we have a process that doesn’t go around and vilify people who work the public sector, whether they be journalists or public officials anyone else. We have a calm, considered a mature approach to this issue.” | |
| He continues, but it’s hard to hear him over Labor’s heckles. Which even government MPs are laughing at. So things are going very well then. | |
| Bert van Manen gets the first dixer, because Queensland is in trouble and he is one of the seats Labor has its eyes on. | |
| Scott Morrison really doesn’t appear to be in the mood for this today. He’s trying. I mean, he’s here. But he doesn’t seem to be in the mood to sell the message. And it’s not helped by the dead fish reaction from his backbench. | |
| Bronwyn Bishop is in the House. | |
| No 94a for her today. | |
| Bill Shorten to Scott Morrison: | |
| Given the government has now voted to support the establishment of a national integrity commission, what is the prime minister’s timetable to establish a national integrity commission and will he work with all sides across the parliament to make the national integrity commission a reality as soon as possible? | |
| Morrison passes the question to Christian Porter. Which seems an interesting strategy. | |
| Porter says the government is looking at it, and working with agencies to see what improvements could be made. He then says Labor has not always been in favour of a national integrity commission. | |
| Sigh. | |
| Further statements of indulgence on the Melbourne attack are moved to the Federation chamber. | 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. | Scott Morrison tells us that Christian Porter will be answering Peter Dutton’s questions. |
| And then, we get to those 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | “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. | 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. | 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. | Scott Morrison begins by making a statement on indulgence on the Victorian terror attack. |