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| Coalition grilled on regional jobs package – Senate question time live | Coalition grilled on regional jobs package – Senate question time live |
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| The Senate-only sitting week has started in the midst of a debate on climate change as ‘catastrophic’ blazes threaten swathes of NSW and Queensland. All the day’s events, live | The Senate-only sitting week has started in the midst of a debate on climate change as ‘catastrophic’ blazes threaten swathes of NSW and Queensland. All the day’s events, live |
| Rachel Siewert is asking Michaelia Cash what happened to the 104,480 who have dropped out of income support – and whether or not she can confirm they have jobs, or any form of income. | |
| Cash says there were many reasons, but doesn’t give an answer. | |
| Senate question time ends, and so does my will to keep standing. | |
| Bridget McKenzie REALLY likes the line “we are standing with you” when it comes to farmers. | |
| Really, really likes it. | |
| Apologies for the dairy/diary typos. | Apologies for the dairy/diary typos. |
| But you try listening to this guff without your entire being glazing over. | |
| “I’m sorry Senator Hanson, I forgot you were actually new to this issue, so let me walk you through it,” Bridget McKenzie says. | “I’m sorry Senator Hanson, I forgot you were actually new to this issue, so let me walk you through it,” Bridget McKenzie says. |
| Someone get the aloe vera. | Someone get the aloe vera. |
| Pauline Hanson is now asking Bridget McKenzie about the exposure draft for the dairy code. | Pauline Hanson is now asking Bridget McKenzie about the exposure draft for the dairy code. |
| This would be the issue that One Nation has seemingly taken over from the Nationals, leaving the Nationals rather annoyed. | This would be the issue that One Nation has seemingly taken over from the Nationals, leaving the Nationals rather annoyed. |
| Hanson put through a bill today for regulation of the industry, which was lost after the Nationals voted against it (Centre Alliance was absent from the vote) so she lost it by one. | Hanson put through a bill today for regulation of the industry, which was lost after the Nationals voted against it (Centre Alliance was absent from the vote) so she lost it by one. |
| Hanson is very much enjoying how discomforted this is leaving McKenzie. | Hanson is very much enjoying how discomforted this is leaving McKenzie. |
| This is becoming the Bridget McKenzie hour, which is wayyyyy too much Bridget McKenzie. | This is becoming the Bridget McKenzie hour, which is wayyyyy too much Bridget McKenzie. |
| She is basically taking every single question on notice. Which includes why Moira council found out from the media it was no longer getting the $1m drought funding it thought it was, after a miscommunication between Damian Drum and the water minister. | She is basically taking every single question on notice. Which includes why Moira council found out from the media it was no longer getting the $1m drought funding it thought it was, after a miscommunication between Damian Drum and the water minister. |
| McKenzie can’t tell you much about that. But she can tell you that it is a “great program”. | McKenzie can’t tell you much about that. But she can tell you that it is a “great program”. |
| Can you be a raving inner city greenie lunatic, if you are from Michael McCormack’s electorate? Asking for a friend. | Can you be a raving inner city greenie lunatic, if you are from Michael McCormack’s electorate? Asking for a friend. |
| Honestly, I would prefer to eat a bunch of bananas then sit through this. | Honestly, I would prefer to eat a bunch of bananas then sit through this. |
| Bridget McKenzie just had a bit of a fraudian slip with the term “climate reduction fund” instead of emissions reduction fund as she answers a question from Larissa Waters. | Bridget McKenzie just had a bit of a fraudian slip with the term “climate reduction fund” instead of emissions reduction fund as she answers a question from Larissa Waters. |
| I mean, at least it is honest. | I mean, at least it is honest. |
| McKenzie now accuses Waters of using the “misery of those in regional NSW and Queensland for your political advantage.” | McKenzie now accuses Waters of using the “misery of those in regional NSW and Queensland for your political advantage.” |
| Oh that’ll fix it. | Oh that’ll fix it. |
| We are now hearing a dixer on how the parliament and government will be acknowledging Remembrance Day. | We are now hearing a dixer on how the parliament and government will be acknowledging Remembrance Day. |
| Which occurred at 10.30am. | Which occurred at 10.30am. |
| Asked more questions on the Regional Jobs and Investment Packages issues, Bridget McKenzie says she will take the questions on notice “and that is all I can really do”. | Asked more questions on the Regional Jobs and Investment Packages issues, Bridget McKenzie says she will take the questions on notice “and that is all I can really do”. |
| Even Penny Wong cracks a smile at that one. | Even Penny Wong cracks a smile at that one. |
| Strangely, McKenzie doesn’t seem to have anything prepared on this, despite the auditor-general report basically calling it a trash fire, meaning her staff are now madly sending her sheets of information via the Senate clerks. | Strangely, McKenzie doesn’t seem to have anything prepared on this, despite the auditor-general report basically calling it a trash fire, meaning her staff are now madly sending her sheets of information via the Senate clerks. |