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| Labor grills Angus Taylor over company interests – politics live | Labor grills Angus Taylor over company interests – politics live |
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| Patricia Karvelas asks whether unauthorised strike action could see unions in trouble under the ensuring integrity bill. | |
| Christian Porter tells Afternoon Briefing: | |
| Well, the structure of the bill as it sets out quite clearly, what are the types of behaviour, unlawful behaviour which could trigger an application issuer against a sitting public official or where there’s lots of that behaviour occurring against registered organisation itself. | |
| But of course the point I think is that these are triggers which then require an argument by someone with sufficient standing before the Federal Court. | |
| As to why the pattern of unlawful behaviour warrants an organisation or part of an organisation, say a branch being deregistered, and then the court would have to consider whether that was just in all the circumstances. So there are all of the usual safeguards and steps and requirements and burdens and things that must be shown and proven. But this is just a minimum standard for lawful behaviour in the workplace. | |
| So that is a yes then. Basically. | |
| You may remember from earlier this week, that Ed Husic has decided he has had enough of lightly stepping around Peter Dutton and declared Dutton “could not be trusted” on national security. | |
| Today, in a statement to the House, he doubled down, saying he did not believe Dutton was “worthy” of the crucial portfolio. | |
| National security is one of the most critical functions of government. | |
| The safety of the nation is a principal threshold priority. It should remain shielded from politicisation, so that the Australian public can remain confident that no one is playing games with national security. | |
| Yet, through his actions, the minister for home affairs has demonstrated he is not worthy of this portfolio. He cannot be trusted and he cannot help himself from prompting politicking above the solemn duty to do the right thing when it comes to national security. | |
| Look at his track record. He has trashed the bipartisanship that’s guided national security debate. | |
| He’s deliberately misled the public with falsehoods about the medevac legislation that have proven to be wrong. | |
| Under his watch, journos’ homes get raided. Yet investigations into how Asio documents fall into the hands of the media gets dropped. | |
| He ratted on deals to fix up the encryption legislation that’s hurting Australian tech firms. Metadata that is supposed to be used under strict terms is being abused and his department refused to provide legally required reports on what’s happening with its use. | |
| Millions of dollars in government contracts were awarded to Paladin under his watch. Foreign fighter laws, that took years to get here, still aren’t here properly. | |
| He cannot be trusted. We are on to him, and we will not rest. | |
| Seems like everyone is keen to get out of here today. | |
| The Senate looks like it is reordering business, at the request of the government, to move all the routine business aside, so the temporary exclusion order can be discussed. | |
| Labor is supporting that, so the Senate will sit until that is passed (which it will be, because Labor is supporting the bill) and then the Senate will rise until Monday. | |
| Mathias Cormann: I move that … | |
| (1) The routine of business for the remainder of the day be consideration of government business only. | |
| (2) Divisions may take place after 4.30 pm. | |
| (3) The Senate shall adjourn without debate after it has completed consideration of the Counter-Terrorism (Temporary Exclusion Orders) Bill 2019 and a related bill, including any message from the House of Representatives, or a motion for the adjournment is moved by a minister, whichever is the earlier. | |
| Just in case you missed some of the Angus Taylor stories from Lisa Cox and Anne Davies, you can find them here, | |
| For those who followed #qt today, a thread with key stories from our @GuardianAus investigation of Angus Taylor, Josh Frydenberg and the endangered grasslands | |
| This is an issue which hasn’t got a lot of airplay in the parliament today, but Richard Di Natale has released a statement on this story: | This is an issue which hasn’t got a lot of airplay in the parliament today, but Richard Di Natale has released a statement on this story: |
| In the same week UK courts declared British arms exports to Saudi Arabia to be unlawful, a large shipment of Australian-built remote weapons systems left Sydney airport. | In the same week UK courts declared British arms exports to Saudi Arabia to be unlawful, a large shipment of Australian-built remote weapons systems left Sydney airport. |
| Secret photographs, obtained by Guardian Australia, confirm the identity of the buyers – the Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates governments, whose forces are currently waging a devastating war in Yemen. Also marked are the suppliers of the equipment, which the manufacturer boasts is ‘significantly enhancing lethality’ in combat. | |
| Di Natale: | Di Natale: |
| While other nations around the world ban arms sales to Saudi Arabia, and the US Senate recently blocked sales to both the UAE and Saudi Arabia, Australia is continuing to profit off both nations’ warmongering, while remaining tight-lipped or wilfully ignorant about where our weapons are ending up. | |
| By shipping weapons to these two regimes, we’re contributing to an unfolding catastrophe in Yemen, pouring fuel onto a conflict that has killed tens of thousands and been described by observers as the ‘world’s worst humanitarian crisis’. | |
| This is inexcusable and callous ignorance. By permitting and profiting off these sales, Australia is tacitly allowing the UAE and Saudi regimes to continue a war that’s left 24 million people in need of help. It’s time to end our arms trade with human rights abusers, and rip up the government’s obscene plans to make Australia a global arms dealer. | |
| Bill Shorten has released a statement on the Senate call for the disability abuse royal commissioners to stand down: | Bill Shorten has released a statement on the Senate call for the disability abuse royal commissioners to stand down: |
| ... The Senate has now backed the calls of the Australian Labor Party and the disability community for the Government to act to preserve the integrity of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability. | |
| This commission is a chance to let sunlight in, expose historical wrongs and learn from them so we can provide better services to people with disability and eradicate abuse and neglect from their lives in the future. | This commission is a chance to let sunlight in, expose historical wrongs and learn from them so we can provide better services to people with disability and eradicate abuse and neglect from their lives in the future. |
| But that will be impossible to achieve if we have two commissioners who could end up in charge of investigating themselves, their former colleagues or their former workplaces. | But that will be impossible to achieve if we have two commissioners who could end up in charge of investigating themselves, their former colleagues or their former workplaces. |
| John Ryan is an ex-Liberal politician, NSW shadow minister for disability, and a public servant who had oversight of residential care programs for people with disability in NSW. | |
| Barbara Bennett was deputy secretary for families and communities at the Department of Social Services and at various times oversaw the Commonwealth workplace health and compensation scheme, the National Redress Scheme, welfare, family safety, housing and homelessness, and grants to the disability sector. | Barbara Bennett was deputy secretary for families and communities at the Department of Social Services and at various times oversaw the Commonwealth workplace health and compensation scheme, the National Redress Scheme, welfare, family safety, housing and homelessness, and grants to the disability sector. |
| Barbara Bennett and John Ryan should have already listened to the voices of the disability community, recognised that they are fundamentally conflicted, and stood down from these roles. | Barbara Bennett and John Ryan should have already listened to the voices of the disability community, recognised that they are fundamentally conflicted, and stood down from these roles. |
| Since they have not then it falls to the Coalition Government to do the right thing and remove them. Labor has called for this. | |
| Sixty groups representing people with disability have already called for this. | Sixty groups representing people with disability have already called for this. |
| Now the Senate is calling for it. | Now the Senate is calling for it. |
| Time is up for these two. It’s time for the Government to act. | Time is up for these two. It’s time for the Government to act. |
| The division ends as it was always going to and question time ends, with Scott Morrison commending all the new members, and giving a particular mention to Peta Murphy, the Labor member for Dunkley, who told the House her breast cancer had re-emerged two weeks after her election, and sends her the House’s best wishes. | The division ends as it was always going to and question time ends, with Scott Morrison commending all the new members, and giving a particular mention to Peta Murphy, the Labor member for Dunkley, who told the House her breast cancer had re-emerged two weeks after her election, and sends her the House’s best wishes. |
| Time for the final divide. | Time for the final divide. |
| The parties swap sides of the chamber. | The parties swap sides of the chamber. |
| Scott Morrison is yawning (I get it) and chatting to Darren Chester and Josh Frydenberg. | Scott Morrison is yawning (I get it) and chatting to Darren Chester and Josh Frydenberg. |
| Anthony Albanese is talking to Mark Butler, Jim Chalmers and Matt Keogh. | Anthony Albanese is talking to Mark Butler, Jim Chalmers and Matt Keogh. |
| No one is talking to Michael McCormack. | No one is talking to Michael McCormack. |
| Yup. | Yup. |
| Terri Butler seconds Tony Burke’s original motion. “The minister is going to have to come clean eventually and he should just do so now,” she says. | Terri Butler seconds Tony Burke’s original motion. “The minister is going to have to come clean eventually and he should just do so now,” she says. |
| Christian Porter gets up to ask that she no longer be heard. | Christian Porter gets up to ask that she no longer be heard. |
| We divide. | We divide. |
| The papers are not only stacked in front of Scott Morrison, his diary and phone are on top of them. | The papers are not only stacked in front of Scott Morrison, his diary and phone are on top of them. |
| FREEDOM AWAITS US ALL*. | FREEDOM AWAITS US ALL*. |
| *Except those in Manus and Nauru | *Except those in Manus and Nauru |
| This will fail (insofar as what Labor wants to achieve) and then another Labor frontbencher will get up and then Christian Porter will move that they are no longer heard, and the House will divide again. | This will fail (insofar as what Labor wants to achieve) and then another Labor frontbencher will get up and then Christian Porter will move that they are no longer heard, and the House will divide again. |
| The government has the numbers to back Porter’s call. | The government has the numbers to back Porter’s call. |
| The papers are stacked in front of the PM, so he’ll probably call time on QT at the end of all that. | The papers are stacked in front of the PM, so he’ll probably call time on QT at the end of all that. |
| Will Fowles, the Victorian state Labor MP police spoke to this morning, after a door was damaged in a Canberra hotel, is taking immediate leave | Will Fowles, the Victorian state Labor MP police spoke to this morning, after a door was damaged in a Canberra hotel, is taking immediate leave |
| .@willfowles to take leave to deal with health issues. Says he has battled with addiction and mental health issues @abcmelbourne #springst pic.twitter.com/qS43qcx5RG | .@willfowles to take leave to deal with health issues. Says he has battled with addiction and mental health issues @abcmelbourne #springst pic.twitter.com/qS43qcx5RG |
| The motion to suspend standing orders has been called. | The motion to suspend standing orders has been called. |
| Here is the motion Labor wants to move | Here is the motion Labor wants to move |
| The motion Labor is attempting to move regarding Angus Taylor; pic.twitter.com/0vMWaSInoI | The motion Labor is attempting to move regarding Angus Taylor; pic.twitter.com/0vMWaSInoI |
| A #qt tableau. @murpharoo @mpbowers @AmyRemeikis pic.twitter.com/3h23xSERzE | A #qt tableau. @murpharoo @mpbowers @AmyRemeikis pic.twitter.com/3h23xSERzE |
| Tony Burke seeks leave to move a motion to suspend standing orders. | Tony Burke seeks leave to move a motion to suspend standing orders. |
| He wants an explanation to the House from Angus Taylor, covering off the questions Labor has asked today. | He wants an explanation to the House from Angus Taylor, covering off the questions Labor has asked today. |
| The government has the numbers in the House. This will go no where. | The government has the numbers in the House. This will go no where. |
| Scott Morrison: | Scott Morrison: |
| We have talked a lot about the impact of thuggish unions and them trying to thieve workers’ wages and we know about the union coming here and trying to kick down doors of Parliament House, as we saw in 1996, but this week we had a state Labor party come and try to kick down the door of a hotel room, Mr Speaker. | We have talked a lot about the impact of thuggish unions and them trying to thieve workers’ wages and we know about the union coming here and trying to kick down doors of Parliament House, as we saw in 1996, but this week we had a state Labor party come and try to kick down the door of a hotel room, Mr Speaker. |
| That is the sort of behaviour they think is OK in the Labor party, and we are seeing that in the same way. | That is the sort of behaviour they think is OK in the Labor party, and we are seeing that in the same way. |
| Tony Burke: | Tony Burke: |
| Mr Speaker, I accept with a question like that it is really hard to not be relevant. The question was as broad as it could possibly be. And the prime minister has managed not to be relevant to the question. | Mr Speaker, I accept with a question like that it is really hard to not be relevant. The question was as broad as it could possibly be. And the prime minister has managed not to be relevant to the question. |
| Tony Smith says he thinks the prime minister has finished his preamble, and Morrison gets down to drought, tax and WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON, probably. | Tony Smith says he thinks the prime minister has finished his preamble, and Morrison gets down to drought, tax and WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON, probably. |
| This dixer is literally: | This dixer is literally: |
| Will the prime minister update the House on further action the government has taken this week to deliver on its priorities? | Will the prime minister update the House on further action the government has taken this week to deliver on its priorities? |
| Zali Steggall to Scott Morrison: | Zali Steggall to Scott Morrison: |
| Businesses in Warringah are bound by Australian consumer law. In particular, they’re not allowed to mislead and deceive customers about their products or services, yet in contrast, it is a free-for-all in political advertising during campaigns, where misleading and outright false claims are made by all sides of politics, resulting in a loss of trust in our political system and undermining of our democracy. | Businesses in Warringah are bound by Australian consumer law. In particular, they’re not allowed to mislead and deceive customers about their products or services, yet in contrast, it is a free-for-all in political advertising during campaigns, where misleading and outright false claims are made by all sides of politics, resulting in a loss of trust in our political system and undermining of our democracy. |
| Will the government introduce or support legislation for a minimum standard of truth in political advertising during political campaigns? | Will the government introduce or support legislation for a minimum standard of truth in political advertising during political campaigns? |
| Steggall is referring to some of the ads which were run against her during the election campaign. | Steggall is referring to some of the ads which were run against her during the election campaign. |
| Morrison: | Morrison: |
| And I thank the member for Warringah for her question. She would be aware that the joint standing committee on electoral matters undertakes a review of all matters in relation to the conduct of the most recent election and it will bring forward a report and that will be considered indeed by the government and the parliament and that is the appropriate place for those matters to be addressed and to be considered as they come before this parliament. | And I thank the member for Warringah for her question. She would be aware that the joint standing committee on electoral matters undertakes a review of all matters in relation to the conduct of the most recent election and it will bring forward a report and that will be considered indeed by the government and the parliament and that is the appropriate place for those matters to be addressed and to be considered as they come before this parliament. |
| But I would agree with the member for Warringah that the activities by GetUp in the most recent election and the actions they took against the former member for Warringah was some of the grubbiest and some of the most despicable actions I’ve seen (‘what, are you jealous’, yells someone from Labor) by what is, indeed, a political organisation masquerading as something independent, Mr Speaker. | But I would agree with the member for Warringah that the activities by GetUp in the most recent election and the actions they took against the former member for Warringah was some of the grubbiest and some of the most despicable actions I’ve seen (‘what, are you jealous’, yells someone from Labor) by what is, indeed, a political organisation masquerading as something independent, Mr Speaker. |
| And the actions that GetUp took against by the former member for Warringah, and stood up to by the member for Boothby and I commend the member for Boothby for staring them down at the last election, and also the member for Dickson, the member for Kooyong, and I’m so pleased to see them here again, Mr Speaker because the Liberal party and the National party will never be intimidated by the bullying tactics and the big union money that goes into GetUp and the Labor party. | And the actions that GetUp took against by the former member for Warringah, and stood up to by the member for Boothby and I commend the member for Boothby for staring them down at the last election, and also the member for Dickson, the member for Kooyong, and I’m so pleased to see them here again, Mr Speaker because the Liberal party and the National party will never be intimidated by the bullying tactics and the big union money that goes into GetUp and the Labor party. |