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Bill Shorten makes pitch to be next prime minister at Labor national conference – live | |
(35 minutes later) | |
Wayne Swan says that Labor is the oldest political party in the country and respects the right of different opinions and protest, but that doesn’t include the right to drown out the leader of the Opposition. | |
He asks for security to remove them. | |
They sit with their arms crossed. Security begins to drag them off the state. | |
“Off, off, off,” chants the crowd. | |
Bill Shorten says he can wait a few more minutes. | |
“Come on Bill,” comes the shouts from the audience. | |
They are eventually removed, chanting to ‘Stop Adani’ as they leave the room. | |
Shorten’s speech to the conference opens with Stop Adani protestors being carried off the stage #auspol | |
Stop Adani is back on the stage. | |
“Please stop Adani,” he says, mentioning Queensland’s natural disasters. Bill Shorten let’s him speak and asks to keep the flag. | |
Wayne Swan asks for him to leave the stage, but he is joined by more, who stand with a banner and then sit with arms crossed. | |
A Stop Adani protester looks like they attempted to get up on stage, but was very quickly removed. | |
At least that is what it looked like, from way up here in the back. | |
“Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the next prime minister of Australia, Bill Shorten”. | |
There is a standing ovation. | |
And he walks in to Labor’s campaign music. | |
There is a lot of hero music in this video. Like, Marvel levels of hero music. | |
“He’s a loving husband, he’s a daggy dad, he’s a frustrated Collingwood fan and his kids tell me he’s a pretty average cook,” Tanya Plibersek says, before a video plays of a speech Scott Morrison made about what Australian’s want, while showing images of climate change, house prices and inequality. | |
Plibersek is introducing Bill Shorten. She says she will take a “union leader over a failed advertising executive any day of the week”. | |
Tanya Plibersek is now up. She tells the 400 or so delegates and 1,000 observers about Labor’s wins around the nation, in both byelections and state elections. | |
Ged Kearney gets a cheer when she is shown in the video of the “hell of a year” Labor has had. | |
Kathrine Murphy has covered off the first announcement from conference: | |
Bill Shorten will use his opening address to Labor’s national conference to unveil new subsidies to promote more affordable housing at a cost of $6.6bn over a decade. | |
Shorten will use the opportunity of his opening pitch to the delegates and onlookers gathered in Adelaide for the three-day event to commit to a target of 20,000 houses built in the first term of a Labor government. | |
The policy, to be unveiled on Sunday, would offer 15-year subsidies of $8,500 per year to investors who build new houses, with the taxpayer support conditional on the dwellings being rented to eligible tenants at 20% below market rent. | |
On why Scott Morrison did not consult with Labor over the next governor general, given that 2019, when Hurley will step into the role, was an election year, Morrison says: | |
This is a recommendation that is made by the prime minister, like all the appointments that are made by a government. | |
We had an election in 2016 and during the term of this parliament, the prime minister was to be making a recommendation to Her Majesty. That is the job of the government. | |
I mean the Labor party may think they are the government at the moment – and they be carrying like they think they have already won an election – but that has not occurred and I am assure them, they have got a fight on their hands. | |
Wayne Swan introduces the South Australian opposition leader, Peter Malinauskas, stumbling a little over the surname. The room laughs. | |
Malinauskas says he is excited about being on the precipice of having four South Australians in the federal cabinet – Penny Wong, Mark Butler, Don Farrell and Amanda Rishworth. | |
He says South Australia has produced a lot of people who “every time they speak, they win Labor votes” and, for that, he thanks Christopher Pyne. | |
“Delegates, this is our moment and the aim of our conference is to win the battle of ideas,” Wayne Swan says. “Our job is to show that we are the party of the people, for the people and by the people, not the party of, for and by the big end of town.” | |
Back to Swanny, he describes Scott Morrison as “a grinning fool in a baseball cap who thinks the G20 is a good place to talk about sausages”. | |
“Who would have thought they could find someone who could make Billy McMahon look good?” | |
He says Labor is the only party that “reflects modern Australia” but there is “political chaos everywhere you look”. | |
“That chaos has many causes but at the bottom of this instability and chaos lies this cause – inequality”. | |
“People feel their political parties have simply stopped listening,” he says. | |
He says that is because mainstream parties have failed to address the failings of trickle down economics. But that Labor was addressing that. | |
David Hurley won’t take up the post until June next year – after the election. | David Hurley won’t take up the post until June next year – after the election. |
Asked why he was announcing it today, given that it is not an issue for another six months, Scott Morrison says: | Asked why he was announcing it today, given that it is not an issue for another six months, Scott Morrison says: |
It needed to be done to provide certainty about the role going into next year. | It needed to be done to provide certainty about the role going into next year. |
Next year is an election year and it is very important that I think this appointment be seen well outside the context of any electoral issues. | Next year is an election year and it is very important that I think this appointment be seen well outside the context of any electoral issues. |
The current Governor-General’s term nominally expires into the end of March, so this is a decision that I was advised coming into the role as Prime Minister that would need to be taken. | The current Governor-General’s term nominally expires into the end of March, so this is a decision that I was advised coming into the role as Prime Minister that would need to be taken. |
It wasn’t my first order of issues the deal with, as I said at the time, but it was one that I knew I would have tow resolve and make a recommendation to the palace before the end of the year, which I have now done” | It wasn’t my first order of issues the deal with, as I said at the time, but it was one that I knew I would have tow resolve and make a recommendation to the palace before the end of the year, which I have now done” |
He is officially the president. | He is officially the president. |
“This is the national conference, our opponents didn’t want,” he says. | “This is the national conference, our opponents didn’t want,” he says. |
“...Let’s win the battle of ideas.” | “...Let’s win the battle of ideas.” |
David Hurley said he was surprised to be offered the role, as he approached the end of his term as New South Wales governor: | David Hurley said he was surprised to be offered the role, as he approached the end of his term as New South Wales governor: |
We know, though, that if I was to retire, the most significant part of our current role that we would miss would be the opportunity to visit and meet the multitude of extraordinary Australians in our community. | We know, though, that if I was to retire, the most significant part of our current role that we would miss would be the opportunity to visit and meet the multitude of extraordinary Australians in our community. |
I have certainly confirmed in my own mind over the past four years, something that I had sensed about Australia, but really hadn’t had the opportunity before to witness on a day-to-day basis – that Australia is a very rich country in a non-material sense. | I have certainly confirmed in my own mind over the past four years, something that I had sensed about Australia, but really hadn’t had the opportunity before to witness on a day-to-day basis – that Australia is a very rich country in a non-material sense. |
Australians have an amazing and, indeed, an enormous capacity to contribute their time, their energy, their time, their efforts and indeed their money to assist others I look forward to continuing to be involved with them in these pursuits. | Australians have an amazing and, indeed, an enormous capacity to contribute their time, their energy, their time, their efforts and indeed their money to assist others I look forward to continuing to be involved with them in these pursuits. |
As the prime minister mentioned you can’t do these jobs without someone standing by your side. | As the prime minister mentioned you can’t do these jobs without someone standing by your side. |
Linda has had such a unique manner the role in the last four years and I look forward for the two of us fulfilling the responsibilities of governor general together. | Linda has had such a unique manner the role in the last four years and I look forward for the two of us fulfilling the responsibilities of governor general together. |
My commitment to the people of Australia is that we will fulfil our responsibilities in the same full-hearted manner that I have worked in New South Wales or we have worked in New South Wales over the past four years, including supporting, encouraging them in community endeavours, recognising achievements and promoting those achievements at home and abroad. | My commitment to the people of Australia is that we will fulfil our responsibilities in the same full-hearted manner that I have worked in New South Wales or we have worked in New South Wales over the past four years, including supporting, encouraging them in community endeavours, recognising achievements and promoting those achievements at home and abroad. |
I will be enormously proud to represent Australia in the role of governor general. | I will be enormously proud to represent Australia in the role of governor general. |
For those asking, we are told that the opposition was not consulted over the choice of the next governor general. | For those asking, we are told that the opposition was not consulted over the choice of the next governor general. |
An announcement has been made about the Governor-General of Australia. Read in full here: https://t.co/qvRvk1Gc3a pic.twitter.com/V2JasgUXDd | An announcement has been made about the Governor-General of Australia. Read in full here: https://t.co/qvRvk1Gc3a pic.twitter.com/V2JasgUXDd |