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| Scott Morrison faces MPs after intervention in Craig Kelly saga – politics live | Scott Morrison faces MPs after intervention in Craig Kelly saga – politics live |
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| I’ve been having a chat to Stirling Griff and Rex Patrickfrom Centre Alliance to discuss why the party voted with the government to delay the Senate vote on Labor’s bill to repeal religious exemptions to discrimination law to protect LGBT students. | |
| Both said that they wanted time to consider government amendments that attempt to balance protection of LGBT students with religious freedom, which they only received on Friday. | |
| The amendments allow schools to set rules and codes of conduct that indirectly discriminate against LGBT students where they are imposed “in good faith in order to avoid injury to the religious susceptibilities of adherents of that religion or creed”. | |
| Griff said there was “no major breakdown of problems” with schools expelling gay students and Labor wanted an early vote as “a bit of politics in the last week of the [parliamentary] year to beat the Liberals with”. | |
| Patrick reiterated the party supports removing discrimination but wanted to put “policy over politics” because the “simple bill had turned complex”. “If that doesn’t suit the politics of others, then so be it.” | |
| If Mathias Cormann moves to send the bill to committee, Centre Alliance will agree to that course, even if the committee may not report back until next year and it takes the bill off the agenda in the final sitting week. | |
| Jordon Steele-John used Senate question time to once again raise the issue of disability abuse being left out of the aged care abuse royal commission. | |
| Today, December 3rd, is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities and is an | |
| important moment to celebrate the four million disabled Australians and the contributionthey make to society.Despite the hard-won progress of the disability rights movement, disabled Australianscontinue to be subjected to discrimination and are routinely denied the rights guaranteedthem under international law. In the year that I have been here I have heard thepleasantries and promises that the government has given to the disability community and yet it seems these promises are empty, that I sit here today and say that the government is all words and no action. | |
| 1. Violence abuse and neglectThis discrimination creates and sustains the barriers to employment, education, transport, social and political participation experienced by disabled Australians, and most concerningly manifests itself in horrific violence, abuse and neglect to which they are subjected.For instance - In a three-month period alone, from July to September of this year, over 184 incidents of abuse and neglect were reported to the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission. | |
| 2. Audio descriptionAnother area where people with disabilities are neglected is accessibility to digitial services and TV. There have been two government-funded Audio Description trials conducted by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on ABC1 in 2012 and on iview in 2015–16. And in 2017 the Government set up an Audio Description Working Group (ADWG) (under the Department of Communications and the Arts) who examined and reported 12 months ago on the options for increasing the availability of AD services in Australia. Given the activity in this space, and the fact that 385 000 people could make use of such a service, why has the Government failed to act on this issue? | |
| 3. The community is tired of all talk and no action, how about the gov starts followingthrough with their responsibility to act | |
| The AFP have issued a statement over it’s submission to the intelligence committee which Labor was talking about today. | |
| The AFP can confirm that it made a supplementary submission to the PJCIS on Thursday 29 November 2018. The submission was not operationally sensitive or security classified.” | |
| The submission was confidential. The intelligence committee has public and closed hearings, and public and confidential submissions. Releasing information without the committee’s say so, is, well illegal. | |
| So it is not really the point if the submission is confidential, then it is still breaking the law if you release information from it, without the committee’s permission. | |
| Kinda of like I didn’t mean to speed, I didn’t intend to speed and I wasn’t endangering anyone’s life by speeding, but I can still get a speeding ticket, you know? | |
| Michelle Landry has updated her interests’ register. | Michelle Landry has updated her interests’ register. |
| The Queensland MP has been gifted a “framed portrait of Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen” | The Queensland MP has been gifted a “framed portrait of Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen” |
| Value: Unknown | Value: Unknown |
| For those who didn’t see Penny Wong’s anger at the reversal of the religious discrimination debate earlier: | For those who didn’t see Penny Wong’s anger at the reversal of the religious discrimination debate earlier: |
| here's Penny Wong - she turns on Centre Alliance senators who decided to support the government in blocking the legislation until at least next year pic.twitter.com/Tx2bwwAu3H | here's Penny Wong - she turns on Centre Alliance senators who decided to support the government in blocking the legislation until at least next year pic.twitter.com/Tx2bwwAu3H |
| It’s the last sitting week of the parliamentary year. | It’s the last sitting week of the parliamentary year. |
| The year’s almost over. It’s too much to start asking for honest language now, right? So who’s in the mood for euphemism and mixed metaphors? | The year’s almost over. It’s too much to start asking for honest language now, right? So who’s in the mood for euphemism and mixed metaphors? |
| Here’s Barnaby Joyce talking about the Morrison government’s “religious freedom” plans. As an aside, it’s not clear what half of this stuff has to do with the bill: | Here’s Barnaby Joyce talking about the Morrison government’s “religious freedom” plans. As an aside, it’s not clear what half of this stuff has to do with the bill: |
| “Constitutionally we’ve always believed that we’ve had the right, the freedom, to basically invest in our own religion, and invest in our own schools. | “Constitutionally we’ve always believed that we’ve had the right, the freedom, to basically invest in our own religion, and invest in our own schools. |
| “Invest in those schools that promote the values, ah, that we believe give people the safest path, ah, on that ocean. The safest voyage on that ocean. Where you decide to go is really your own business but, um, there has been a real sense of concern, palpable concern, that’s come into this building by reason of a sense that, ah, the State will rule supreme in the school, no matter if it’s a state government school or an independent school. | “Invest in those schools that promote the values, ah, that we believe give people the safest path, ah, on that ocean. The safest voyage on that ocean. Where you decide to go is really your own business but, um, there has been a real sense of concern, palpable concern, that’s come into this building by reason of a sense that, ah, the State will rule supreme in the school, no matter if it’s a state government school or an independent school. |
| “People have a right to believe what they wish but when that right to believe what they wish overruns the rights of everybody else who have a different view within that school then it’s something has to be called into question. | “People have a right to believe what they wish but when that right to believe what they wish overruns the rights of everybody else who have a different view within that school then it’s something has to be called into question. |
| “There are things that are just indelible. And we have to accept them. People are born with an XX chromosome, homogametic, or they’re born with an XY chromosome, heterogametic, and that determines basically whether you’re male or female. | “There are things that are just indelible. And we have to accept them. People are born with an XX chromosome, homogametic, or they’re born with an XY chromosome, heterogametic, and that determines basically whether you’re male or female. |
| “The concerns that people have and say ‘well we’ll put that aside or we’re not allowed to mention it,’ that is in itself creates problems, especially, with um, it’s been brought to my attention when a person at a female school, and all-girl school, says well what happens when someone presents and says ‘well I’ve determined that, you know, I want to be female and I want to come to this school’? How’s that going to be dealt with?” | “The concerns that people have and say ‘well we’ll put that aside or we’re not allowed to mention it,’ that is in itself creates problems, especially, with um, it’s been brought to my attention when a person at a female school, and all-girl school, says well what happens when someone presents and says ‘well I’ve determined that, you know, I want to be female and I want to come to this school’? How’s that going to be dealt with?” |
| Penny Wong has given notice of a motion that Labor will be attempting to bring the religious schools bill to vote again tomorrow. | Penny Wong has given notice of a motion that Labor will be attempting to bring the religious schools bill to vote again tomorrow. |
| If successful, it will be up for consideration again from noon on Wednesday. | If successful, it will be up for consideration again from noon on Wednesday. |
| From Mike Bowers’s lens to your eyeballs: | From Mike Bowers’s lens to your eyeballs: |
| Question time ends. | Question time ends. |
| Tony Burke stands up after learning of this: | Tony Burke stands up after learning of this: |
| I have just been kicked out of #QT because you can allegedly see too much skin. His insane #Auspol pic.twitter.com/51KipESXlG | I have just been kicked out of #QT because you can allegedly see too much skin. His insane #Auspol pic.twitter.com/51KipESXlG |
| He says that it is a rule he has never heard before – and if it needs to be fixed, it should be fixed. | He says that it is a rule he has never heard before – and if it needs to be fixed, it should be fixed. |
| Kerryn Phelps asks Christian Porter why the government won’t pass the religious discrimination bill, Porter said that the government “wants to get this done”, but the compromise won’t go far enough to support what the government wants and it “has to be a balance of passage”. | Kerryn Phelps asks Christian Porter why the government won’t pass the religious discrimination bill, Porter said that the government “wants to get this done”, but the compromise won’t go far enough to support what the government wants and it “has to be a balance of passage”. |
| Mark Butler asks Scott Morrison about Craig Kelly’s threat to move to the crossbench and Malcolm Turnbull’s opinion that saving him would be the “worst and weakest response”. | Mark Butler asks Scott Morrison about Craig Kelly’s threat to move to the crossbench and Malcolm Turnbull’s opinion that saving him would be the “worst and weakest response”. |
| Morrison says that Kelly never made the threat. | Morrison says that Kelly never made the threat. |
| I can’t tell you much more, because, like a lot of people in this place I could name, the transcription service has given up. | I can’t tell you much more, because, like a lot of people in this place I could name, the transcription service has given up. |
| Christopher Pyne has just had a chat with Scott Morrison and then wandered over to have a chat to the crossbench. | Christopher Pyne has just had a chat with Scott Morrison and then wandered over to have a chat to the crossbench. |
| He gets whatever answer he wants and wanders back to Morrison. | He gets whatever answer he wants and wanders back to Morrison. |
| David Littleproud gets the next dixer and it looks like he is sticking to the ‘no yelling is good yelling’ qt approach. | David Littleproud gets the next dixer and it looks like he is sticking to the ‘no yelling is good yelling’ qt approach. |
| After successfully calling Ken O’Dowd and Barnaby Joyce under this tactic, Tony Burke is now moving to have Craig Kelly answer a question. | After successfully calling Ken O’Dowd and Barnaby Joyce under this tactic, Tony Burke is now moving to have Craig Kelly answer a question. |
| Burke: “I refer to the member’s motion on the notice paper which relates to the national energy guarantee and that it provides certainty for investors. Under standing orders this motion will be removed from the notice paper if it is not selected for debate again. When will the motion be debated again, will it be removed from the notice paper if it is not selected? | Burke: “I refer to the member’s motion on the notice paper which relates to the national energy guarantee and that it provides certainty for investors. Under standing orders this motion will be removed from the notice paper if it is not selected for debate again. When will the motion be debated again, will it be removed from the notice paper if it is not selected? |
| Christopher Pyne rises to interject. Tony Smith calls on him “on irony first”. | Christopher Pyne rises to interject. Tony Smith calls on him “on irony first”. |
| Smith, who has been here before, allows the question. | Smith, who has been here before, allows the question. |
| Craig Kelly uses the opportunity to again prove he does not know how microphones work and starts screaming about 45% targets being the worst in the entire world and Labor not caring. | Craig Kelly uses the opportunity to again prove he does not know how microphones work and starts screaming about 45% targets being the worst in the entire world and Labor not caring. |
| He sits down, with plenty of time on the clock, to applause from his side of the chamber, while Tony Burke asks for an extension of time. | He sits down, with plenty of time on the clock, to applause from his side of the chamber, while Tony Burke asks for an extension of time. |
| Tony Smith again points out that you can only have an extension of time if you have run out of time. | Tony Smith again points out that you can only have an extension of time if you have run out of time. |
| Labor has made its point though. It’s Kelly’s bloated aubergine rant which will make the news bulletins and the whole place looks like a dog’s breakfast. And that’s being kind. | Labor has made its point though. It’s Kelly’s bloated aubergine rant which will make the news bulletins and the whole place looks like a dog’s breakfast. And that’s being kind. |
| Chris Bowen to Josh Frydenberg: | Chris Bowen to Josh Frydenberg: |
| I refer to statements made by industry groups that the government’s propose to powers represent deep and genuine sovereign risk or discourage badly needed investment in the energy sector and will only lead to increased investment uncertainty and prices. Even the government’s big stick really just a big mistake that will lead to sovereign risk and higher power prices? Why is this Liberal government abandoned its policy commitment to free enterprise?” | I refer to statements made by industry groups that the government’s propose to powers represent deep and genuine sovereign risk or discourage badly needed investment in the energy sector and will only lead to increased investment uncertainty and prices. Even the government’s big stick really just a big mistake that will lead to sovereign risk and higher power prices? Why is this Liberal government abandoned its policy commitment to free enterprise?” |
| Frydenberg: | Frydenberg: |
| “The member for McMahon must have a short memory because of the last time the Labor party was in government at a federal level, power prices doubled! Went up by over 100%, Mr Speaker. They ignored the warnings on gas, and as the member for Hume knows, they left us with potential shortfalls in the domestic gas market.” | “The member for McMahon must have a short memory because of the last time the Labor party was in government at a federal level, power prices doubled! Went up by over 100%, Mr Speaker. They ignored the warnings on gas, and as the member for Hume knows, they left us with potential shortfalls in the domestic gas market.” |
| And now they are coming up with the pink batteries to solving energy issues. | And now they are coming up with the pink batteries to solving energy issues. |
| And what about a replication nationally of what we saw in South Australia? The big experiment in South Australia, Mr Speaker. | And what about a replication nationally of what we saw in South Australia? The big experiment in South Australia, Mr Speaker. |
| When it comes to the coalition, 458,000 Australian families and 39,000 small businesses are today getting a better deal on their energy prices thanks to the work of the Morrison government. | When it comes to the coalition, 458,000 Australian families and 39,000 small businesses are today getting a better deal on their energy prices thanks to the work of the Morrison government. |
| Because we are putting energy users consumers, businesses and families first. | Because we are putting energy users consumers, businesses and families first. |
| Whereas the Labor party is siding with the energy companies. The fact is there is market misconduct. | Whereas the Labor party is siding with the energy companies. The fact is there is market misconduct. |
| “There is market misconduct and we had to take the necessary action so they will be a range of remedies that are available, they range from a warning notice to enforceable undertakings to financial under penalties and fines and finally as a last resort to divert them.” | “There is market misconduct and we had to take the necessary action so they will be a range of remedies that are available, they range from a warning notice to enforceable undertakings to financial under penalties and fines and finally as a last resort to divert them.” |
| These other steps that need to be taken to ensure that energy consumers get the lowest possible prices. | These other steps that need to be taken to ensure that energy consumers get the lowest possible prices. |
| “And if I was the member for McMahon, I would be worrying about the 3,000 retirees in his electorate who are going to be worse off and the 7,000 families who negative gear, all of whom will be worse off in the member for McMahon’s electorate as a result of Labor’s policy.” | “And if I was the member for McMahon, I would be worrying about the 3,000 retirees in his electorate who are going to be worse off and the 7,000 families who negative gear, all of whom will be worse off in the member for McMahon’s electorate as a result of Labor’s policy.” |
| Sigh. | Sigh. |
| It is at this point I scream internally that the SA blackouts were caused by a giant fricking storm which knocked out the transmitters and you can have all the power in the world but it’s useless without the things that transmit it, but I am as dead inside as the government backbench. | It is at this point I scream internally that the SA blackouts were caused by a giant fricking storm which knocked out the transmitters and you can have all the power in the world but it’s useless without the things that transmit it, but I am as dead inside as the government backbench. |
| Over in the Senate: | Over in the Senate: |
| Jenny McAllister: Given Mr Morrison has refused to save Jane Prentice, Ann Sudmalis, and Senators Molan and Gichuhi – but has today intervened to save Craig Kelly: How does Mr Morrison decide when to intervene? Why is there a quota for clowns, but not for women? | Jenny McAllister: Given Mr Morrison has refused to save Jane Prentice, Ann Sudmalis, and Senators Molan and Gichuhi – but has today intervened to save Craig Kelly: How does Mr Morrison decide when to intervene? Why is there a quota for clowns, but not for women? |
| Cory Bernardi: Point of order. You can’t refer to members of parliament as clowns | Cory Bernardi: Point of order. You can’t refer to members of parliament as clowns |
| Jacinta Collins: The prime minister called you all Muppets! | Jacinta Collins: The prime minister called you all Muppets! |
| Scott Ryan: I actually could not hear the 2nd part of that question due to noise from my right. So if there was something unparliamentary I’d ask for it to be withdrawn but I did not hear the second part of that question. I was giving the Minister the courtesy to respond. He may have heard it. If there was nothing on that someone can bring something on Hansard to my attention. | Scott Ryan: I actually could not hear the 2nd part of that question due to noise from my right. So if there was something unparliamentary I’d ask for it to be withdrawn but I did not hear the second part of that question. I was giving the Minister the courtesy to respond. He may have heard it. If there was nothing on that someone can bring something on Hansard to my attention. |
| Bernardi: Senator McAllister suggested that the Prime Minister failed to intervene in the preselection of clowns, It’s simply inappropriate and Senator McAllister knows. She should withdraw. | Bernardi: Senator McAllister suggested that the Prime Minister failed to intervene in the preselection of clowns, It’s simply inappropriate and Senator McAllister knows. She should withdraw. |
| Derryn Hinch: Isn’t truth a defence in New South Wales? | Derryn Hinch: Isn’t truth a defence in New South Wales? |
| The opposition are calling Angus Taylor “Biggus Stickus” and calling out lines from Monty Pythons Life of Brian during #weleaseWoger #QT @AmyRemeikis @GuardianAus #PoliticsLive pic.twitter.com/0kUN4wPhi7 | The opposition are calling Angus Taylor “Biggus Stickus” and calling out lines from Monty Pythons Life of Brian during #weleaseWoger #QT @AmyRemeikis @GuardianAus #PoliticsLive pic.twitter.com/0kUN4wPhi7 |