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| Labor anger as Centre Alliance helps to delay gay students bill – as it happened | |
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| The clock has hit 6pm and I am rapidly turning back into a pumpkin after this insane day, so we will leave you – but fear not, we are all back on deck in a scant 12 hours or so. | |
| Tomorrow brings with it the party room meetings, where I am sure we will be told the Liberal party came together and sang Kumbaya and then spoke of a strong economy and job growth and infrastructure and getting on with the job outside the Canberra bubble. | |
| Nothing to see here, everything is fine. | |
| It’s been more than 24 hours since Craig Kelly last appeared on Sky, so I am sure we are due for that appearance as well. | |
| Then there is small matter of policy – encryption and energy – as well as religious discriminations. And we only have three sitting days left this year. | |
| What. A. Week. | |
| A massive thank you to Mike Bowers for being Mike Bowers and to Katharine Murphy, Gareth Hutchens and Paul Karp for being the actual brains of the operation and keeping it from running off the rails completely. | |
| And as always, thank you to everyone who followed along with us, and kept us all entertained. We appreciate it, even when you don’t appreciate the going ons. But it could always be worse. We could be Americans. | |
| We’ll be back early tomorrow morning. In the mean time, take care of you. | |
| The attorney general Christian Porter has publicly rejected Labor demands to pass an interim encryption bill extending new powers only for the investigation of the most serious crimes, warning the opposition the whole bill will be put to parliament this week. | |
| As negotiations between the parties resumed on the encryption bill, Porter told Sky News the main issues between the parties were whether state police should gain powers to order tech companies to help break encryption, “the types of offences that the notice powers would apply to” and the “authorisation processes” before notices are issued. | |
| Porter : | |
| “We’re not having any interim agreements/ There’ll be a bill put before parliament and the bill with either be agreed or it won’t be agreed, but we will be dealing with this this week.” | |
| Porter queried why Labor would support a bill “that says it’s necessary and appropriate to protect Australians” when the AFP and Asio order companies to assist decryption “but it’s not at the time reasonable for state police to also have that assistance”. He noted state police forces also had counter terrorism units and argued they needed the same powers. | |
| “There’s no point in allowing half of our law enforcement agencies to be able to have this assistance in investigating terrorism, but not the other half ... | |
| “You’d effectively be passing half a regime, which would be totally ineffective. I mean, this bill operates as a conjunctive whole. So what we are trying to do is have a whole bill.” | |
| But despite the harsh public words, Labor is still at the negotiating table and believes the attorney general has not ruled out an interim bill in that setting. So an apparently irreconcilable public difference could still be resolved. | |
| Sounds like another edition of our favourite - ‘Canberra: The All Things Liable to Change Without Notice’ story. | |
| What could possibly go wrong? | |
| DM the PM pic.twitter.com/CfnE3XE5pT | |
| “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?” | |
| I’ve been having a chat to Stirling Griff and Rex Patrick from 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. | 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”. | 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”. | 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.” | 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. | 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. | 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 contribution they 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 guaranteed them under international law. In the year that I have been here I have heard the pleasantries 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 neglect | |
| This 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? | 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 | 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 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 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. | 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. | 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? | 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: |