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| Nauru bill passes the Senate as lower house adjourns to avoid vote – politics live | |
| (35 minutes later) | |
| Kerryn Phelps talking to Sky: | |
| “I am sad that we didn’t get this through today, because I think we would have had the numbers … but we will be back in February, so there is light at the end of the tunnel.” | |
| The house adjourns for 2018- we are done, love youse all @AmyRemeikis @GuardianAus @murpharoo #PoliticsLive pic.twitter.com/W6I16kDdqq | |
| There were 26 divisions in the Senate all up today. | |
| On the 17 March 2016, there were 38 divisions, but that day was suspended and continued the next day. | |
| Labor will continue to move its amendments in the Senate on the encryption bill, despite the House having adjourned, meaning it can not be passed. | |
| It is over. | |
| A spokesman for BuzzFeed has responded to Emma Husar’s statement: | |
| “We’re aware that proceedings have been issued. We’re considering our position with our lawyers and will respond in due course.” | |
| The medical transfer bill has passed the Senate 31-28. | |
| A bit of an anticlimax after a three-hour filibuster, but the heat had gone out of it after the House adjourned. | |
| We’re now onto the encryption bill. | |
| Christian Porter said he is “bitterly disappointed” that Labor has played “tactical games” to stop the encryption legislation. | |
| The government could have extended the parliament sitting to ensure it passed. | |
| The only reason, the absolute only reason, parliament is not extended, is because the government did not want the medical evacuation bill to come to the House for a vote, where it would have passed. | |
| The government says it does not want it passed because it would threaten national security. | |
| But it has been almost 90 years since a government lost a legislative vote and the n, the Stanley Bruce government called an election the next day. | |
| Christian Porter looks like a broken man. Like, Mathias Cormann after the leadership spill broken. | |
| He is blaming Labor for the encryption bill not making it back to the House to be legislated. | |
| Bill Shorten has taken the rare step of talking during the adjournment debate: | |
| .@billshortenmp: For this government, national security is only national security until 5pm. The bad guys don’t worry about our national security. MORE: https://t.co/xwVJAtvTxX #Speers pic.twitter.com/w9fv7iMQEm | |
| As the bells ring on the FINAL division on the medical evacuation bill, Save the Children has sent out a statement: | |
| Save the Children has applauded the determined efforts of Labor, the Greens and crossbenchers, on the final day of Parliament, to ensure refugees get the urgent medical treatment they need. | |
| Parliamentarians in both houses and of all persuasions are urged to support legislation which will streamline the urgent medical transfer of critically ill children from Australia’s offshore processing facilities. | |
| Acting CEO of Save the Children Australia Mat Tinkler said claims the legislation would hinder Australia’s border security were baseless. | |
| “Independents, Labor and the Greens are to be commended for their efforts to ensure asylum seeker children receive the medical treatment they need,” Tinkler said. | |
| “The community has demanded action, to get children off Nauru. | |
| “There is no basis to claims that this will unravel Australia’s border protection regime, and nothing justifies locking children up indefinitely. Nothing. | |
| “We urge our parliament to sit for as long as it takes to protect the wellbeing of these vulnerable people. | |
| “The call to get kids off Nauru will only grow louder if the Australian government refuses to listen.” | |
| Save the Children urges the Australian government to urgently progress the resettlement of all refugees in Australia or a third country that welcomes them.” | |
| Bob Katter playing Bob Katter: | |
| .@RealBobKatter on Nauru: If the government isn’t flying out a couple of people who are seriously ill – it just doesn’t sound like the real world. They are not refugees, they are not fleeing from, they are going to. MORE: https://t.co/dSr7kqlYn2 #Speers pic.twitter.com/Q6W9Vbz89x | |
| At this stage I feel like I am just screaming into the abyss, but the vast, vast majority on Nauru and Manus Island have been assessed to be refugees, as in they should be granted asylum, by an independent body. | |
| Labor’s Penny Wong is now seeking to clarify or amend Mathias Cormann’s motion to ensure that the Senate will still deal with BOTH the medical transfer bill and the encryption bill this afternoon. | Labor’s Penny Wong is now seeking to clarify or amend Mathias Cormann’s motion to ensure that the Senate will still deal with BOTH the medical transfer bill and the encryption bill this afternoon. |
| Richard Di Natalewants to know if the house has adjourned. He says that “as a result of the tactics of both parties” the Senate is now being asked to guillotine debate to vote on laws to allow spying on Australian citizens, and “we’ll still see no change over Christmas to the torture ... of innocent people locked up [in offshore detention]”. | Richard Di Natalewants to know if the house has adjourned. He says that “as a result of the tactics of both parties” the Senate is now being asked to guillotine debate to vote on laws to allow spying on Australian citizens, and “we’ll still see no change over Christmas to the torture ... of innocent people locked up [in offshore detention]”. |
| Scott Ryan confirms the house has adjourned.Wong says that nobody watching proceedings could doubt that Labor, Greens, Centre Alliance, Derryn Hinch and Tim Storer were genuinely trying to pass the refugee bill.Wong blames the government for sending the house home, saying it is an “indictment” on their handling of national security. | Scott Ryan confirms the house has adjourned.Wong says that nobody watching proceedings could doubt that Labor, Greens, Centre Alliance, Derryn Hinch and Tim Storer were genuinely trying to pass the refugee bill.Wong blames the government for sending the house home, saying it is an “indictment” on their handling of national security. |
| So - after all that - we’re continuing with the medical transfer bill before we move to encryption. | So - after all that - we’re continuing with the medical transfer bill before we move to encryption. |
| This will be the press conference where the government explains how it is not its fault the encryption laws it said were desperately needed were not passed because Labor forced it to adjourn the House at 4.30pm. | This will be the press conference where the government explains how it is not its fault the encryption laws it said were desperately needed were not passed because Labor forced it to adjourn the House at 4.30pm. |
| To be clear, the government has the power to extend the sitting. As it does, every day. | To be clear, the government has the power to extend the sitting. As it does, every day. |
| It is choosing not to, because it doesn’t want to lose a legislative vote. | It is choosing not to, because it doesn’t want to lose a legislative vote. |