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| Cathy McGowan introduces national integrity commission bill – politics live | Cathy McGowan introduces national integrity commission bill – politics live |
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| The concurrence motion passes on the voices (no division) but that is not the bill. That vote is coming later. | |
| “We have issue after issue where questions are being raised and not being addressed,” Andrew Wilkie says. | |
| The government benches are all but empty as this debate is occurring. I can see Sussan Ley, Nicolle Flint, Christopher Pyne and Christian Porter but not many others. | |
| Rebehka Sharkie pleads with Christian Porter to “lead from the front on this” and help come up with a workable model if the government is not happy with what has been presented. | |
| “I know with corruption there is often history ... there is frequently a story which needs to be understood,” Cathy McGowan says, on why retrospectivity is included in the bill. | |
| She says she is more than happy to work with the AG’s office to make it work. | |
| “From the bottom of my heart I hope the government will come back and tell us this week [it is in support of the bill]”, she says, adding: “Most of your backbench seems to be in favour of it.” | |
| Bronwyn Bishop, Starfleet captain pic.twitter.com/LanqZn7haH | |
| Cathy McGowan responds to Christian Porter by asking “what, when and how”. | |
| She says that people have waited long enough for a federal commission, and there is no one to go to when corruption at a federal level is alleged. | |
| The Australian federal police may have acted in contempt of parliament by failing to warn the Labor senator Louise Pratt of a raid investigating leaks about Peter Dutton’s au pair decisions, a report has found. | |
| The Senate privileges committee suggested in the report, which was tabled on Monday, that the failure to warn Pratt meant she did not have a proper opportunity to claim parliamentary privilege over seized documents, a possible interference with the functioning of parliament. | |
| The committee upheld Labor’s claim that documents seized in the raid are covered by parliamentary privilege, and said it would recall Australian federal police witnesses to provide further evidence before making a conclusion on whether the failure to warn Pratt constitutes a contempt. | |
| Quick side break to note that Patrick Gorman has brought his young son into parliament while his wife is working in the Pilbara. | |
| Leo is going to be here all week – because the raising of children is not just one parent’s responsibility. | |
| The clock is ticking down on Bob Katter’s latest round of feel-pinions. | |
| But we finally get to where he wants to go. | |
| “I find it very difficult, because I can see the need for it, but on the other hand I see the great dangers which exist here.” | |
| He wants the model worked on. | |
| Bob Katter is referring to the reforms brought in after the Joh Bjelke-Petersen inquiryand the “awful lot of innocent people burnt” by the Criminal Justice Commission (now the Crime and Corruption Commission) . | |
| I’ll be back as soon as I chase down my eyeballs – they have rolled somewhere down by my calves at this speech. | |
| The Asio director general, Duncan Lewis, has called for legislation to allow law enforcement agencies powers to crack encryption to be passed “as quickly as it can be”. | |
| In a parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security hearing on Monday, Lewis said that there were “cases afoot at the moment where this legislation will directly assist”. | |
| Lewis said there was a “general heightening of the threat level over Christmas” but the spy agency had no evidence of a particular attack in a certain place or time in the upcoming holiday season. | |
| Asked if a cutting short the consideration of the bill would harm consultation, Lewis responded that passage of the legislation would be “beneficial” but whether it is passed by Christmas or after was a “matter for the parliament and the government to decide”. | |
| “I really don’t have a position on that.” | |
| Asio witnesses confirmed they had no input or knowledge before the event about Scott Morrison and the home affairs minister Peter Dutton’s decision to call a press conference on Thursday to call for the bill to expedited through committee. | |
| So where are we? | |
| The government is not opposing a national integrity commission but has problems with the model. | |
| Tanya Plibersek says the best way to overcome those issues is to work on the bill in a bipartisan manner. | |
| Tayna Plibersek is going through some of the NSW Icac findings, mentioning some of the cases the Coalition has had go through the commission. | Tayna Plibersek is going through some of the NSW Icac findings, mentioning some of the cases the Coalition has had go through the commission. |
| She then mentions the problems the Labor side has seen and says that she welcomed it, because the jailing of Eddie Obeid was like “cutting out a cancer” and that all sides of politics should welcome that. | She then mentions the problems the Labor side has seen and says that she welcomed it, because the jailing of Eddie Obeid was like “cutting out a cancer” and that all sides of politics should welcome that. |
| “This is the time for the absolute most sober, sensible process we can engage in ... that I am sad to say is not in the bill [we are discussing today]” says Christian Porter. | |
| So not outright support. But not, not support. | So not outright support. But not, not support. |
| Andrew Probyn, aside. | Andrew Probyn, aside. |
| Well, this has taken an unexpected turn.AG Christian Porter uses @andrewprobyn's ACMA ruling to argue against the proposed national integrity commission bill:"Under this Bill, no ifs, ands or buts, Andrew Probyn would be found to have committed corruption" #auspol | Well, this has taken an unexpected turn.AG Christian Porter uses @andrewprobyn's ACMA ruling to argue against the proposed national integrity commission bill:"Under this Bill, no ifs, ands or buts, Andrew Probyn would be found to have committed corruption" #auspol |
| OMG. | OMG. |
| Christian Porter has just used the example of the ABC political editor, Andrew Probyn, being found to have breached the broadcaster’s code with his analysis that Tony Abbott was the most destructive politician of his generation (where’s the lie?), would be found to be corrupt under this model. | |
| The press gallery hallway has exploded into gaffaws. As have much of the chamber. | The press gallery hallway has exploded into gaffaws. As have much of the chamber. |
| The attorney general is speaking about issues the government has with the model of the national integrity commission model which has been put forward. | The attorney general is speaking about issues the government has with the model of the national integrity commission model which has been put forward. |
| He is not saying that Australia does not need one though. | He is not saying that Australia does not need one though. |