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| PM says Alek Sigley is safe and well – question time live | |
| (32 minutes later) | |
| Interesting move. | |
| #BREAKING! The Bill to repeal #MedeVac has been referred to a Senate Inquiry by the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislative Committee. The Committee is due to report Oct 18, which means Senate will not debate the Medevac repeal legislation until the November sitting period! | |
| Anthony Albanese to Scott Morrison: | |
| What programs and services will be cut to fund stage three of the government’s tax cuts? | |
| Morrison: | |
| None. | |
| That’s not me being brief, that’s the whole answer. | |
| “Oh well done,” says some teacher’s pet from the government benches. I guess there are some fairly low bars in this place, so answering a question is probably worthy of praise in that world. | |
| Angus Taylor is back, Angus Tayloring his way through a dixer. Which he has to read. | |
| Anthony Albanese to Scott Morrison: did the prime minister tell voters that of the $18.75m set aside for a rural road, the first dollar won’t be spent until 2026? | |
| Morrison, after talking about the “smugness” of the Labor party, and referencing its lowest primary vote in 100 years (the Coalition received it’s third – very close to the second – worst primary vote in about the same time frame) says it was in the budget papers. | |
| I think Rob Mitchell just became the first MP thrown out under section 94a. | |
| Ken O’Dowd inflicts Michael McCormack on us with a dixer. | |
| It is like heading to the breakfast buffet and discovering it is only continental. | |
| Scott Morrison: | |
| Swedish authorities advised they met with senior officials with the DPRK and raise the issue of Alek’s disappearance. We were advised that the DPRK have released him from detention and he has safely left the country and I can confirm that he has arrived safely. | |
| On behalf of the Australian government I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to the Swedish authorities for their invaluable assistance in securing Alek’s prompt release, which demonstrates the value of discreet behind-the-scenes work by officials in solving sensitive consular cases in close partnership with other governments. I’m sure we all could not be more pleased. We know where he is now safe. | |
| Anthony Albanese: | |
| I join with the prime minister in welcoming this announcement and thank him for yesterday the private discussion that we had again discreetly talking about this very issue. I’d also like to add our thanks to the Swedish authorities. ... Indeed it is good news for our nation. | |
| Angus Taylor, the minister for emissions reduction, and maybe lowering electricity prices, is taking a question from Adam Bandt, giving Labor its first happy moment of the parliament. | |
| “Fantastic job, Angus, well done,” the Labor benches are yelling. | |
| Anthony Albanese has the next question for Scott Morrison, with a question on deeming rates: when was the last time it changed? | |
| When Morrison was social services minister, apparently, but it is under review. | |
| We have had a consistency in cash rate positions for some time, and it has been a record for the consistency of cash rate. There have been two changes to the cash rates most recently and that is what prompted the minister for social services by encouragement to bring forward a submission to the ERC and asked the Department of Social Services to review the deeming rate once again. That matter will be considered by ERC in the normal course of events, it will be done so responsibly and in accordance with the government’s overall fiscal strategy. | |
| Nicolle Flint, who has lost her prime position behind the despatch box and is now banished to the same bench as Kevin Andrews and Ian Goodenough at the back, has the next dixer. It’s about the amazing surplus, and gives Josh Frydenberg a chance to once again say the budget is “back in the black and back on track”, and my eyes roll down my spine and into the courtyard below. | |
| Anthony Albanese is back: | |
| Would a tax cut at just over $1,000 a year for a pharmacy worker in my electorate have more of a positive impact if the penalty rate cut the prime minister supports wasn’t taking more than $5,000 a year off the same worker? | |
| Scott Morrison: | |
| The government endorses the industrial arrangements put in place by the Fair Work Commission that were introduced by those opposite, Mr Speaker, when Labor supported the independence of the Fair Work Commission to consider matters and to come to judgments. We do not believe the politicians should set people’s wages, we believe that should be done through the fair and transparent process that provides the certainty for investment and engagement in the national economy. It would seem that the leader of the opposition may have changed names but the same old class warfare he is seeking to perpetuate in this place is all just the same. | |
| BIG news if true: | |
| BREAKING: Australian citizen Alek Sigley, last week feared detained in North Korea, is now “safe and sound” and in China, sources familiar with the situation confirmed to NK News on Thursday.He will travel onwards to Tokyo later in the day. https://t.co/8QqsyNbSJ0 | |
| The member for Bass, Bridget Archer, gets the first dixer. | |
| It includes the term “aspiration”. | |
| I will continue my tradition of not transcribing the dixers*, unless they include actual information not found in a press release. | |
| #deathtodixers | |
| *And yes, I would have done this for a Labor government as well. | |
| Anthony Albanese to Scott Morrison with a short and quick first question: | Anthony Albanese to Scott Morrison with a short and quick first question: |
| Which of his policies on wages, consumer demand, interest rates and productivity is working the best? | Which of his policies on wages, consumer demand, interest rates and productivity is working the best? |
| Morrison: | Morrison: |
| All of them are all working together, and all by the Australian people at the last election for the economic plan that we took to this country. We took to this country, Mr Speaker, to address the serious economic challenges that the country faces, Mr Speaker, and I can tell you the biggest rift to the domestic economy in this country that presented itself this year was relegated at the last election with the defeat of the Labor party, Mr Speaker. This was a Labor party that at the last election achieved, Mr Speaker... | |
| Albanese jumps up to say: | Albanese jumps up to say: |
| As you will appreciate, increasingly as time goes on, no preamble, no rhetoric, just a simple question for which of the economic indicators does the prime minister think is working the best? | |
| Morrison repeats: | Morrison repeats: |
| “All of them.” | |
| Then he moves on to talk about jobs, jobs, jobs. | Then he moves on to talk about jobs, jobs, jobs. |
| Claressa Surtees, the current deputy clerk of the House of Representatives, will be the new clerk when David Elder finishes up in August. | Claressa Surtees, the current deputy clerk of the House of Representatives, will be the new clerk when David Elder finishes up in August. |
| Surtees will be the first female clerk in the Australian House of Reps. | Surtees will be the first female clerk in the Australian House of Reps. |
| The government will be forced to explain to the Senate the conduct of senior ministers Angus Taylor and Josh Frydenberg and whether discussions over critically endangered grasslands breached ministerial standards. | The government will be forced to explain to the Senate the conduct of senior ministers Angus Taylor and Josh Frydenberg and whether discussions over critically endangered grasslands breached ministerial standards. |
| The Greens and Labor have accused both ministers of misconduct over meetings between Taylor and Frydenberg’s office in 2017, when Taylor was the minister for cities and Frydenberg the minister for environment. | The Greens and Labor have accused both ministers of misconduct over meetings between Taylor and Frydenberg’s office in 2017, when Taylor was the minister for cities and Frydenberg the minister for environment. |
| A Greens motion calling for an explanation during the next sitting period from the government’s leader in the Senate, Mathias Corman, has passed the Senate. | A Greens motion calling for an explanation during the next sitting period from the government’s leader in the Senate, Mathias Corman, has passed the Senate. |
| A Guardian Australia investigation revealed Taylor sought and received a meeting with Frydenberg’s office and senior environment officials to discuss critically endangered grasslands that were at the centre of an investigation into alleged illegal landclearing by a company he holds an interest in. | A Guardian Australia investigation revealed Taylor sought and received a meeting with Frydenberg’s office and senior environment officials to discuss critically endangered grasslands that were at the centre of an investigation into alleged illegal landclearing by a company he holds an interest in. |
| An investigator from the unit examining the case was also present at the meeting in March 2017. | An investigator from the unit examining the case was also present at the meeting in March 2017. |
| Following lobbying by Taylor, Frydenberg’s office sought advice from the environment department as to whether protection of the grasslands could be weakened and kept secret. | Following lobbying by Taylor, Frydenberg’s office sought advice from the environment department as to whether protection of the grasslands could be weakened and kept secret. |
| There is a moment of condolence for Bob Hawke to begin. | There is a moment of condolence for Bob Hawke to begin. |
| And then we are under way. | |