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| Shorten: Morrison has 'sought to weaponise this dispute' on discrimination in schools – politics live | Shorten: Morrison has 'sought to weaponise this dispute' on discrimination in schools – politics live |
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| We go from dixer to dixer and Keith Pitt delivers us the latest round of 180 seconds with Michael McCormack. | |
| Bill Shorten tries to table a document showing “corporate profits are up six times wages in this country,” but is denied. | |
| Scott Morrison is now taking his first dixer on the “strong economy”. | |
| Two. More. Days. | |
| Bill Shorten to Josh Frydenberg: | |
| Today’s national accounts confirm over the last quarter, Australia’s economic growth rate has gone down and living standards have fallen. Growth in household consumption is the weakest in five years, and over the last five years, corporate growth has grown five times faster than wages. Everything is going up except people’s wages. | |
| Frydenberg: | |
| One thing’s for certain, we on this side of the House won’t talk down the Australian economy, Mr Speaker. We won’t talk down the Australian economy. That’s because today’s national accounts reveal ... the economy is still growing strongly. At 2.8%, it is faster than the OECD average, and faster than any G7 country except the United States, Mr Speaker. That’s our economic record. | |
| He goes on, but the answer is basically “it’s still OK, but” and “it’s better than what you did”, which is the political equivalent of “your face is”. | |
| Stephen Jones gets told to sit down after comparing the annual US president turkey pardon to Scott Morrison’s intervention to save Craig Kelly. | |
| That gives time for Keith Pitt to ask the government to apply its “big stick” to the Queensland power assets (owned by Queensland). He runs out of time to get all his point across. | |
| It’s time for Who’s that MP as we enter the chamber (virtually today) in time for the end of the members’ 90 second statements: | |
| It’s .... | |
| Justine Keay. | |
| We are in the downhill slide to question time – the second last one for the year. | |
| If only they had something to talk about *sarcastic thinking face emoji* | |
| Speaking of the Nationals, John “Wacka” Williams will be giving his valedictory speech...in February.* | |
| He was instrumental in convincing the Coalition party room to accept a banking royal commission had to happen. | He was instrumental in convincing the Coalition party room to accept a banking royal commission had to happen. |
| *We were told it was happening today, but have just been informed by his lovely staff that it will be in February (the last sitting weeks before the budget is handed down in April, and basically the last sittings before the election) | |
| It is the annual Nationals seafood lunch at Parliament House, where seafood providers (largely) donate their goods to their Nationals MPs to promote their region. | |
| Which is mostly Queensland. In particular, mostly the Hinkler electorate, where Urangan fisheries and Ocean King have donated. That’s an area which has done it a bit tough for the last few years, and is bracing for a fairly big summer, in terms of potential natural disasters. The fires have already been a big shock. | |
| Ron Boswell started the tradition “about a million years ago” and it’s always held in the last sitting week. | Ron Boswell started the tradition “about a million years ago” and it’s always held in the last sitting week. |
| St Vincents de Paul is also holding its charity BBQ, which is also an annual event. This one is hosted by Labor MPs and raises money for the charity. Both are just tiny moments of humanity in the mess of the past week. | |
| The proposed suspension of standing orders as moved by Adam Bandt has gone to a division and the result is: | The proposed suspension of standing orders as moved by Adam Bandt has gone to a division and the result is: |
| Ayes: 73 | Ayes: 73 |
| Noes: 72 | Noes: 72 |
| The government loses another vote, but it is not the absolutely majority (76) needed to suspend standing orders. | The government loses another vote, but it is not the absolutely majority (76) needed to suspend standing orders. |
| This seems helpful. And also – very dated? Can you not have a job and protest? Can you not be unemployed and care about things bigger than yourself? And also, there were school students there? | This seems helpful. And also – very dated? Can you not have a job and protest? Can you not be unemployed and care about things bigger than yourself? And also, there were school students there? |
| SIIIIIIIIGGGGGGHHHHHHHH | SIIIIIIIIGGGGGGHHHHHHHH |
| Just because these selfish gits don't have jobs doesn't give them a right to deny jobs for Queenslanders.Parliament is for all Australians. pic.twitter.com/wNbcdGBfUq | Just because these selfish gits don't have jobs doesn't give them a right to deny jobs for Queenslanders.Parliament is for all Australians. pic.twitter.com/wNbcdGBfUq |
| Phew. | Phew. |
| That was quite the hour. | That was quite the hour. |
| Tanya Plibersek (just before she had to go) on why Labor won’t seek to amend the bill Scott Morrison has put forward: | Tanya Plibersek (just before she had to go) on why Labor won’t seek to amend the bill Scott Morrison has put forward: |
| Why are we contorting ourselves with all of these – should we do this or should we do that? When the solution is simple. The solution is to remove the exemptions from the Sex Discrimination Act that allow discrimination against children. It is simple. And just as with marriage equality, every effort to complicate it is designed to delay and prevent this simple reform from occurring. | Why are we contorting ourselves with all of these – should we do this or should we do that? When the solution is simple. The solution is to remove the exemptions from the Sex Discrimination Act that allow discrimination against children. It is simple. And just as with marriage equality, every effort to complicate it is designed to delay and prevent this simple reform from occurring. |
| The division has been called in the House. | The division has been called in the House. |
| Bill Shorten and Tanya Plibersek are being called back to the chamber. | Bill Shorten and Tanya Plibersek are being called back to the chamber. |
| They said they will come back out. | They said they will come back out. |
| GetUp has responded to Tony Smith’s statement from a little earlier today: | GetUp has responded to Tony Smith’s statement from a little earlier today: |
| Parliament has today roundly rebuked the Hard Right’s attack on GetUp members. | Parliament has today roundly rebuked the Hard Right’s attack on GetUp members. |
| Last week GetUp National Director Paul Oosting called out Tangney MP Ben Morton for using the cover of Parliament to air baseless and misleading accusations about GetUp. | Last week GetUp National Director Paul Oosting called out Tangney MP Ben Morton for using the cover of Parliament to air baseless and misleading accusations about GetUp. |
| ‘The Speaker has rightly seen Mr Morton’s attempts to smear GetUp as a vindictive conspiracy theory,’ Mr Oosting said. | ‘The Speaker has rightly seen Mr Morton’s attempts to smear GetUp as a vindictive conspiracy theory,’ Mr Oosting said. |
| ‘Mr Morton is one of a swathe of Hard Right politicians using Parliament to peddle false and misleading accusations – they can’t be trusted. | ‘Mr Morton is one of a swathe of Hard Right politicians using Parliament to peddle false and misleading accusations – they can’t be trusted. |
| ‘Scott Morrison and his Hard Right MPs have given up on governing in favour of trying to score cheap political points. | ‘Scott Morrison and his Hard Right MPs have given up on governing in favour of trying to score cheap political points. |
| ‘Parliament has told them today to pull their heads in and they should fall in line. It’s actually in their interests because every time these Hard Right politicians attack everyday people for taking part in our democracy, we dig in.’ | ‘Parliament has told them today to pull their heads in and they should fall in line. It’s actually in their interests because every time these Hard Right politicians attack everyday people for taking part in our democracy, we dig in.’ |
| In the House, Tony Burke is arguing in support of suspending the standing orders, mentioning that the parliament came together to pass the strawberry legislation in record time because it believed that was important – so surely, the health and wellbeing of those in our offshore detention centres is also important. | In the House, Tony Burke is arguing in support of suspending the standing orders, mentioning that the parliament came together to pass the strawberry legislation in record time because it believed that was important – so surely, the health and wellbeing of those in our offshore detention centres is also important. |
| Bill Shorten on the Scott Morrison bill: | Bill Shorten on the Scott Morrison bill: |
| I am not prepared to give up on removing discrimination against kids and respecting religion in our society. But what we don’t have today is a solution. So the question is – when you don’t have a solution, do you just engage in a trainwreck? Or do you draw breath? I mean, the problem is that if you don’t have an answer today, you can either have a big fight and divide this country and start antagonising and making everyone nervous about, who cares about what? Or does the parliament do what we’re paid to do – which is we sit down and we keep working through the issue. | I am not prepared to give up on removing discrimination against kids and respecting religion in our society. But what we don’t have today is a solution. So the question is – when you don’t have a solution, do you just engage in a trainwreck? Or do you draw breath? I mean, the problem is that if you don’t have an answer today, you can either have a big fight and divide this country and start antagonising and making everyone nervous about, who cares about what? Or does the parliament do what we’re paid to do – which is we sit down and we keep working through the issue. |
| Mike Bowers was at the student protest in the parliament foyer earlier this morning | Mike Bowers was at the student protest in the parliament foyer earlier this morning |