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| Coalition minister accused of running fundraiser out of taxpayer-funded office – politics live | Coalition minister accused of running fundraiser out of taxpayer-funded office – politics live |
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| We have an update on the #hometobilo case being heard in the federal court: | |
| Bromberg says he expects to be able to deliver judgment at 2:15pm tomorrow. If it turns out he needs more time he will give notice. | |
| Just on the Tony Smith ruling in question time today, that questions can not include a person’s name, unless it can be verified, or is relevant to the question (as per the standing orders) I have been pointed in the direction of the Hansard from the Abbott opposition years in 2012: | |
| My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the statement of Pat Italiano, owner of Essendon Fruit Supply, in the electorate of Maribyrnong, who said, with regard to the carbon tax: | |
| We are trying to absorb the costs as much as we can but it’s a real slap in the face and it’s making things much harder for us. | |
| Can the Prime Minister explain to Mr Italiano and every other small business owner across Australia why they will not receive a cent of compensation for the world’s biggest carbon tax? | |
| Who asked that question? | |
| Tony Smith. | |
| Pauline Hanson clapped as the vote was announced. | |
| And it’s done | |
| Senate votes 35-29 to establish Andrews/Hanson inquiry into the family law system #auspol | |
| Patricia Karvelas: There are also accusations made today that assistant minister for customs Jason Wood’s office is being listed as the address for the Pinnacle Club. What do you make of that? | |
| Simon Birmingham: | |
| Look, I am not aware of the full detail of those. I know there was something running in the House of Representatives today, but I think there is a distinct difference between listing an address for reporting purposes versus actually conducting any events and the like and if the best the Labor party has got to go on is an address that receives information for reporting purposes that’s not much. | |
| PK: Is it appropriate to use that address if the correspondence and the work is being done out of the parliamentary office? | |
| SB: | |
| Well, as I said, if the address is simply for reporting purposes, and from there, volunteers, as is usually the case in terms of Liberal party fundraisers, volunteer treasurers who operate across the country, collate information and report that back as part of our reporting requirements to the Electoral Commission then that doesn’t sound like much to me.” | |
| Simon Birmingham on the Gladys Liu allegations: | |
| The Labor party will smear anybody in this government they get the chance at. We saw that quoted in the media, Labor MPs are basically saying – they are so bitter from losing the last election that they will happily play dirty at every opportunity. | |
| We’re not going to be distracted by that. We have got a job to do which is to govern in the Australian interests, to keep expanding the record volume of exports we have and create new opportunities for Australian businesses to get out there and export and that’s what we’re going to focus on doing, not engaging in the grubby tactics of the Labor party or being distracted by them.” | |
| From AAP: | |
| Crossbench MPs and senators are putting pressure on the Morrison government to provide better protections for journalists and whistleblowers as a new report highlights an erosion in press freedom. | |
| Former Greens senator Scott Ludlum, who co-wrote the report – backed by GetUp and the Digital Rights Watch – said he was “horrified” by the police raids on the ABC headquarters and a journalist’s home a few months ago. | |
| He said the report shows the heat has been turned on the media over the past 10 to 15 years. | |
| “Nobody should be arrested or have their homes gone through or possessions or devices gone through simply trying to their job,” he said on Wednesday. | |
| Journalists needed protections, as do their sources. | |
| The independent MP Andrew Wilkie said the federal government now has “excessive powers” since the 9/11 attacks in 2001 – which has seen has 75 separate pieces of security legislation passed, many of which he believes are “entirely unnecessary”. | |
| He said it was not good enough for the government to flick concerns of media freedom to the parliamentary intelligence and security committee because it had signed off on every one of those 75 pieces of legislation in the past 18 years. | |
| Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young said the Senate was undertaking its own inquiry and expected legislation would come out of that in the new year. | |
| Wilkie said there were already two bills in the House of Representatives put forward by himself and Centre Alliance on protections and a bill of rights. | |
| However, the government controls the numbers in the house and decides what business is dealt with. | |
| “We now look to the government and to the opposition to get behind these issues and to allow that business to be brought on,” Wilkie said. | |
| Simon Birmingham is speaking to Patricia Karvelas about Pauline Hanson claiming family violence claims are being made up and says he doesn’t believe that to be the case, very often. | |
| PK asks how woman are supposed to feel, given, if they give evidence at this inquiry, they will be cross-examined by Hanson knowing that is how she feels, because the government has made her deputy chair. | |
| “Well, I mean I would encourage everybody to share their stories and I would hope and expect that every member of this inquiry, whomever they end up being, will show respect to every person that’s willing to come forward and share their story and their experiences and to listen to them and give them a fair hearing and make sure that what you are drawing out of this process is an understanding of how we can make life better for families in the future. | |
| “This is something that we wish didn’t happen to anybody in terms of fronting up in the family law system.” | |
| PK: I’m asking you in relation to the claims that women make up domestic violence claims. Are you alarmed by that statement? Were you worried when you heard senator Pauline Hanson making that statement this morning? | |
| SB: Well, I didn’t hear her make that statement, Patricia. I have been busy with the UK trade secretary in town. I’m responding to your questions and I’m taking them all at face value. | |
| “Those allegations have been put to me, put I’m sure to other members of parliament, and in some instances they may have been the case over time, and working to make sure that the system responds in relation to those sorts of allegations is important. | |
| “Just as it is important, critically important, in making sure the system deals with those instances where family violence is genuinely occurring and make sure that protection is there for the victims of that family violence and that appropriate support is there for those victims.” | |
| How Mike Bowers saw question time: | How Mike Bowers saw question time: |
| While everyone was Googling who the assistant minister for customs was, this was happening to Jason Wood’s face. | While everyone was Googling who the assistant minister for customs was, this was happening to Jason Wood’s face. |
| So from the paperwork Labor was trying to table in parliament, the Pinnacle Club fundraiser is being held at a private club, but the address registered with the AEC for the Pinnacle Club is also Jason Wood’s electorate office postal address. | So from the paperwork Labor was trying to table in parliament, the Pinnacle Club fundraiser is being held at a private club, but the address registered with the AEC for the Pinnacle Club is also Jason Wood’s electorate office postal address. |
| The financial controller for the Pinnacle Club, according to the fundraising entity’s Australian Electoral Commission disclosure return, has an @aph.gov.au email address. | The financial controller for the Pinnacle Club, according to the fundraising entity’s Australian Electoral Commission disclosure return, has an @aph.gov.au email address. |
| Using taxpayer-funded ministerial resources for private uses – such as fundraising – is against the ministerial code of conduct. | Using taxpayer-funded ministerial resources for private uses – such as fundraising – is against the ministerial code of conduct. |
| Jason Wood is the assistant customs minister. So that is why this is an issue. | Jason Wood is the assistant customs minister. So that is why this is an issue. |
| You may have noticed that has been one of Labor’s question time strategies under Anthony Albanese – to ask questions about the economy and other issues bubbling away before hitting the prime minister a surprise in the second half of QT. | You may have noticed that has been one of Labor’s question time strategies under Anthony Albanese – to ask questions about the economy and other issues bubbling away before hitting the prime minister a surprise in the second half of QT. |
| It’s the “unpredictable” strategy which was put in place fairly early on. | It’s the “unpredictable” strategy which was put in place fairly early on. |
| Speaker of the House @TonySmithMP has announced that Catherine Cornish has been appointed as Deputy Clerk of the House of Representatives. For the first time in Australian history, the House will have a female Clerk and Deputy Clerk. | Speaker of the House @TonySmithMP has announced that Catherine Cornish has been appointed as Deputy Clerk of the House of Representatives. For the first time in Australian history, the House will have a female Clerk and Deputy Clerk. |
| There are a whole heap of quotes about politics being show business for the, let’s just say not Hollywood types – and Vince Connelly, also known as Christian-Porter lite, or CP-lite – has done his best to prove that he missed out on a career on the stage, so he headed to parliament for the second day in the row. | There are a whole heap of quotes about politics being show business for the, let’s just say not Hollywood types – and Vince Connelly, also known as Christian-Porter lite, or CP-lite – has done his best to prove that he missed out on a career on the stage, so he headed to parliament for the second day in the row. |
| And Christian Porter does his best to live up to the ridiculous warm up act. | And Christian Porter does his best to live up to the ridiculous warm up act. |
| Hemsworths they are not. | Hemsworths they are not. |
| The reason for too many puns in QT today. | The reason for too many puns in QT today. |
| Nooooo, there must be another question the government needs to go ahead to go, because Richard Marles gets up with another question to Scott Morrison: | Nooooo, there must be another question the government needs to go ahead to go, because Richard Marles gets up with another question to Scott Morrison: |
| How is the assistant minister for health allowing the Pinnacle Club, an associated entity of the Victorian Liberal party, to use his taxpayer-funded office, his taxpayer-funded phone number and his ministerial PO box public consistent with the prime minister’s ministerial stance? | How is the assistant minister for health allowing the Pinnacle Club, an associated entity of the Victorian Liberal party, to use his taxpayer-funded office, his taxpayer-funded phone number and his ministerial PO box public consistent with the prime minister’s ministerial stance? |
| Christian Porter: | Christian Porter: |
| It is certainly the case that is asking the prime minister for an opinion, but secondarily, there is no date that attaches to any of these allegations that have been made by members opposite. | It is certainly the case that is asking the prime minister for an opinion, but secondarily, there is no date that attaches to any of these allegations that have been made by members opposite. |
| Tony Smith does not believe the date point to be relevant and he rules the whole question in order. | Tony Smith does not believe the date point to be relevant and he rules the whole question in order. |
| Morrison: | Morrison: |
| The deputy leader of the opposition has asserted a number of things and asked me for an opinion on these matters. I am not going to venture opinions based on assertions of the opposition for the reasons I said before. But I can tell you one thing wasn’t happening. No one walked into his office with a big plastic bag full of $100,000 and counted it out on the table like happens on Sussex Street on a regular basis.” | The deputy leader of the opposition has asserted a number of things and asked me for an opinion on these matters. I am not going to venture opinions based on assertions of the opposition for the reasons I said before. But I can tell you one thing wasn’t happening. No one walked into his office with a big plastic bag full of $100,000 and counted it out on the table like happens on Sussex Street on a regular basis.” |
| This also happened today | This also happened today |
| Kind of weird, the Speaker says MPs can't use the names of constituents or people who've been in touch with them in questions unless they're necessary to make the question intelligible. I always feel those kind of questions humanise politics! #qt | Kind of weird, the Speaker says MPs can't use the names of constituents or people who've been in touch with them in questions unless they're necessary to make the question intelligible. I always feel those kind of questions humanise politics! #qt |
| We are getting the daily dose of JUST HOW SAFE ARE YOU from Peter Dutton and then I imagine we will be done. | We are getting the daily dose of JUST HOW SAFE ARE YOU from Peter Dutton and then I imagine we will be done. |