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| Craig Kelly's preselection to be saved amid Liberal open warfare – politics live | Craig Kelly's preselection to be saved amid Liberal open warfare – politics live |
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| Let it be said that politics is not all cynicism and snark | |
| Today is the International Day of People with Disabilities. Today for me is about so much more than passive recognition. It is a day for celebration, commemoration, mourning and a recommitment to the fight for our lives and our rights #idpwd #IDPWD2018 #auspol | |
| Last sitting week for 2018. Even after 10 years as a MP, it remains an enormous honour and great privilege for a bloke from Sale High School to walk in these doors and represent Gippslanders #lovegippsland #myvalley #auspol pic.twitter.com/D7H5P5ndoB | |
| A bit more from the House earlier today: | |
| Ai Group Chief Executive, Innes Willox today: "We urge all political parties to avoid the temptation of pushing the proposed decryption legislation too quickly through the Parliament" #auspol https://t.co/80k3Kdw6nq | |
| It had to be done | |
| Who wore it better?#auspol #politicslive pic.twitter.com/8bny48wuAG | |
| We are two and a bit years on from when this address was made. | |
| This morning Senate President, @SenatorRyan, presented the address-in-reply to His Excellency the Governor-General Find out more about the address-in-reply here: https://t.co/vqOIKXINF7 pic.twitter.com/43SmnUccWY | |
| I could make a snarky comment about how the federal court wasn’t needed in regards to this doctor’s advice, but I am sure it has already been done. | |
| I will remain on medical leave this week on the advice of my doctor. The AG will continue to act for me during my absence. | |
| This should fix it. | This should fix it. |
| In honour of the 75th anniversary of the election of the first women to parliament, the House of Representatives and Senate alcoves are being renamed in honour of Dame Dorothy Tangney and Dame Enid Lyons. | In honour of the 75th anniversary of the election of the first women to parliament, the House of Representatives and Senate alcoves are being renamed in honour of Dame Dorothy Tangney and Dame Enid Lyons. |
| The timing just seems absolutely exquisite. You could not script this stuff.* | |
| *Turns out you can – we have just been informed that Labor apparently started this process and the presiding officers agreed | |
| This NSW state executive order really puts paid to the “on merit” argument, though doesn’t it. | This NSW state executive order really puts paid to the “on merit” argument, though doesn’t it. |
| An update on encryption: | An update on encryption: |
| Am hearing the PJCIS is not going to file its report on encryption today. There were suggestions that there is a surprise Labor-Coalition peace deal in the works. Am trying to confirm this. I know at least: not today. #auspol | Am hearing the PJCIS is not going to file its report on encryption today. There were suggestions that there is a surprise Labor-Coalition peace deal in the works. Am trying to confirm this. I know at least: not today. #auspol |
| Things are going very well | Things are going very well |
| .@AlanTudgeMP says the Govt wants to speak on the important issues listed for discussion today...Yet there is only one Liberal on the speaking list. pic.twitter.com/J8L5jGlCrO | .@AlanTudgeMP says the Govt wants to speak on the important issues listed for discussion today...Yet there is only one Liberal on the speaking list. pic.twitter.com/J8L5jGlCrO |
| The saga around conservative MP Craig Kelly’s preselection that has seen the Liberals tear themselves apart over the last 48 hours is set to be resolved in about half an hour. Kelly will be the candidate for Hughes. | The saga around conservative MP Craig Kelly’s preselection that has seen the Liberals tear themselves apart over the last 48 hours is set to be resolved in about half an hour. Kelly will be the candidate for Hughes. |
| The prime minister, Scott Morrison, has personally contacted moderates on the NSW Liberal party state executive and they have agreed to abstain from a vote, which is now taking place. | The prime minister, Scott Morrison, has personally contacted moderates on the NSW Liberal party state executive and they have agreed to abstain from a vote, which is now taking place. |
| This will ensure that 90% of those voting will support the use of emergency powers to override the remaining local preselections, and reinstate sitting members, on the grounds that it’s too close to an election. | This will ensure that 90% of those voting will support the use of emergency powers to override the remaining local preselections, and reinstate sitting members, on the grounds that it’s too close to an election. |
| (That would include Jason Falinski, John Alexander and Lucy Wicks). | (That would include Jason Falinski, John Alexander and Lucy Wicks). |
| So much for the new democratic reforms the NSW Libs agreed to just a few months ago. | So much for the new democratic reforms the NSW Libs agreed to just a few months ago. |
| The result of the motion (remembering that there are quite a few pairs) | The result of the motion (remembering that there are quite a few pairs) |
| Ayes - 67 | Ayes - 67 |
| Noes - 71 | Noes - 71 |
| Remember those photos of Peter Dutton having lunch with his family after not winning the leadership ballot? | Remember those photos of Peter Dutton having lunch with his family after not winning the leadership ballot? |
| Peter Dutton chose (A), at a cost of $4252. pic.twitter.com/hFCzZcilCt | Peter Dutton chose (A), at a cost of $4252. pic.twitter.com/hFCzZcilCt |
| The House is dividing on the latest ‘the government is really bad at governing’ motion. | The House is dividing on the latest ‘the government is really bad at governing’ motion. |
| It looks like the crossbench is largely abstaining. | It looks like the crossbench is largely abstaining. |
| Independent MP Cathy McGowan was asked this morning if she’d support a Labor motion to refer Peter Dutton to the high court under Section 44 of the constitution. | Independent MP Cathy McGowan was asked this morning if she’d support a Labor motion to refer Peter Dutton to the high court under Section 44 of the constitution. |
| McGowan’s vote will be crucial, as a member of the crossbench in the lower house (whose power is growing, after Liberal MP Julia Banks defected to the crossbench last week), but she hasn’t yet offered a definitive position on it. | McGowan’s vote will be crucial, as a member of the crossbench in the lower house (whose power is growing, after Liberal MP Julia Banks defected to the crossbench last week), but she hasn’t yet offered a definitive position on it. |
| She said she had a quick briefing on the Dutton question this morning but she wasn’t completely across it, so she’d wait to see what Labor does, if anything, and then work with that. | She said she had a quick briefing on the Dutton question this morning but she wasn’t completely across it, so she’d wait to see what Labor does, if anything, and then work with that. |
| However, as a general principle she said she was in favour of constitutional questions being referred to the high court because they’re the experts. Not her. If they’re referred to the high court it takes the politics out of it. | However, as a general principle she said she was in favour of constitutional questions being referred to the high court because they’re the experts. Not her. If they’re referred to the high court it takes the politics out of it. |
| She also connected the problem of section 44 to the crossbench’s attempt to fix up parliament. | She also connected the problem of section 44 to the crossbench’s attempt to fix up parliament. |
| She said the crossbench knows parliament, as an institution, has huge deficiencies in 2018. That’s why she’s proposed new laws to govern the behaviour of parliamentarians and their staff with a code of conduct. | She said the crossbench knows parliament, as an institution, has huge deficiencies in 2018. That’s why she’s proposed new laws to govern the behaviour of parliamentarians and their staff with a code of conduct. |
| As Guardian Australia reported this morning, McGowan wants to establish an independent parliamentary standards commission that could refer individuals to a national integrity commission. McGowan says the reason why we have a problem with section 44 in the first place is because there’s no parliamentary code of conduct. | As Guardian Australia reported this morning, McGowan wants to establish an independent parliamentary standards commission that could refer individuals to a national integrity commission. McGowan says the reason why we have a problem with section 44 in the first place is because there’s no parliamentary code of conduct. |
| “And like, which business doesn’t have a code of conduct [in 2018]?” | “And like, which business doesn’t have a code of conduct [in 2018]?” |
| Alan Tudge says Labor is playing “political games” with its motion and is stuck “in the Canberra bubble”. | Alan Tudge says Labor is playing “political games” with its motion and is stuck “in the Canberra bubble”. |
| He decides to use the rest of his time talking about infrastructure projects. | He decides to use the rest of his time talking about infrastructure projects. |
| The day has just begun and we are already at the suspending standing orders point. | The day has just begun and we are already at the suspending standing orders point. |
| Tanya Plibersek has proposed to suspend standing orders to note that: | Tanya Plibersek has proposed to suspend standing orders to note that: |
| The member for Hughes has threatened to quit the government and move to the crossbench unless his Liberal party preselection is protected; | The member for Hughes has threatened to quit the government and move to the crossbench unless his Liberal party preselection is protected; |
| b) The prime minister is tearing the government apart to protect the member for Hughes, but did nothing to protect the member for Ryan, the member for Gilmore, Senator Gichuhi or the member for Chisholm; and | b) The prime minister is tearing the government apart to protect the member for Hughes, but did nothing to protect the member for Ryan, the member for Gilmore, Senator Gichuhi or the member for Chisholm; and |
| c) The minister for women has said the Liberal party is widely seen as ‘homophobic, anti-women, climate change deniers’ and | c) The minister for women has said the Liberal party is widely seen as ‘homophobic, anti-women, climate change deniers’ and |
| 2: Therefore, reprimands the prime minister for only ever protecting the men in his party and abandoning its women. | 2: Therefore, reprimands the prime minister for only ever protecting the men in his party and abandoning its women. |
| It’s been reported in The Australian and Fairfax, and it is what we were told is one of the options – the state executive members who could have upset the peace deal to ensure Craig Kelly (and every other sitting NSW MP) will abstain. | It’s been reported in The Australian and Fairfax, and it is what we were told is one of the options – the state executive members who could have upset the peace deal to ensure Craig Kelly (and every other sitting NSW MP) will abstain. |
| So, Kelly is saved. | So, Kelly is saved. |
| Let’s all just take a moment to remember that Malcolm Turnbull called preselecting Craig Kelly in this way, through the state executive decree, would be the “worst and weakest response”. | Let’s all just take a moment to remember that Malcolm Turnbull called preselecting Craig Kelly in this way, through the state executive decree, would be the “worst and weakest response”. |
| The state executive needs 90% to agree. Literally anything could happen today. | The state executive needs 90% to agree. Literally anything could happen today. |
| A bunch of people are pissed at Turnbull’s intervention, effectively pushing them into backing the executive peace deal. A bunch of other people are pissed that Kelly has put them into this situation. | A bunch of people are pissed at Turnbull’s intervention, effectively pushing them into backing the executive peace deal. A bunch of other people are pissed that Kelly has put them into this situation. |
| “Unite and fight” indeed. Just maybe not how they meant it. | “Unite and fight” indeed. Just maybe not how they meant it. |