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| Stuart Robert grilled about whether Centrelink robodebts are illegal – politics live | Stuart Robert grilled about whether Centrelink robodebts are illegal – politics live |
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| Government services minister tries to avoid question at National Press Club, but urged to address the issue. All the day’s events, live | Government services minister tries to avoid question at National Press Club, but urged to address the issue. All the day’s events, live |
| What does that mean? | |
| Well, we are either about to get a ‘soz, can’t’ letter from Michael McCormack, tabled by a senator representing him, or we’ll get silence. | |
| Either way, it doesn’t look like the documents will be forthcoming. | |
| The government still gets to use commercial-in-confidence and cabinet-in-confidence as reasons it can’t produce documents, even when ordered to by the Senate. | |
| The government has missed the 3.30 deadline to table the documents regarding the regional jobs and investment packages – the grants that Sarah Martin has been writing on. | |
| Thus ends the last question time during the Senate-only week. | Thus ends the last question time during the Senate-only week. |
| Thank Lizzo. | Thank Lizzo. |
| Marise Payne has released an official response to the escalating violence in Hong Kong: | Marise Payne has released an official response to the escalating violence in Hong Kong: |
| Ugh. No. | Ugh. No. |
| Don Farrell gets up to ask a question on sport funding to Richard Colbeck. | Don Farrell gets up to ask a question on sport funding to Richard Colbeck. |
| He’s taken so many questions today, I think we know the identity of Labor’s ‘wounded gazelle’ target today, if it wasn’t already obvious. | He’s taken so many questions today, I think we know the identity of Labor’s ‘wounded gazelle’ target today, if it wasn’t already obvious. |
| (Operation Wounded Gazelle is Labor’s new question time tactic in the House and Senate, where a minister it considers to be a “weak link” is targeted with the majority of questions.) | (Operation Wounded Gazelle is Labor’s new question time tactic in the House and Senate, where a minister it considers to be a “weak link” is targeted with the majority of questions.) |
| Oh we get to the reason why Bridget McKenzie is still in the chamber – it is to take a dixer on how terrible it is that Victoria has stopped the native forestry timber industry. | Oh we get to the reason why Bridget McKenzie is still in the chamber – it is to take a dixer on how terrible it is that Victoria has stopped the native forestry timber industry. |
| It is the last question. | It is the last question. |
| To which Penny Wong made another short statement: | To which Penny Wong made another short statement: |
| To which Mathias Cormann made a short statement: | To which Mathias Cormann made a short statement: |
| So then Mathias Cormann made a statement in response: | So then Mathias Cormann made a statement in response: |
| Penny Wong: | Penny Wong: |
| Mathias Cormann: | Mathias Cormann: |
| Scott Ryan: | Scott Ryan: |
| Wong: | Wong: |
| Meanwhile, it was the battle of the props at the press club: | Meanwhile, it was the battle of the props at the press club: |
| There is still a bit of confusion around why Bridget McKenzie, the deputy leader of the Nationals, is not the senator representing the leader of the Nationals, Michael McCormack, in the Senate. | There is still a bit of confusion around why Bridget McKenzie, the deputy leader of the Nationals, is not the senator representing the leader of the Nationals, Michael McCormack, in the Senate. |
| Matt Canavan is absent (fires) so he can’t represent McCormack, but McKenzie is there and she is not representing McCormack, because she is apparently leaving for New Zealand at any moment. | Matt Canavan is absent (fires) so he can’t represent McCormack, but McKenzie is there and she is not representing McCormack, because she is apparently leaving for New Zealand at any moment. |
| So Michaelia Cash is representing McCormack, and Simon Birmingham is representing Canavan. | So Michaelia Cash is representing McCormack, and Simon Birmingham is representing Canavan. |
| Which means that two Nationals are being represented by two Liberal senators, when the deputy leader of the National party is sitting there. I can see her. She’s holding up papers. | Which means that two Nationals are being represented by two Liberal senators, when the deputy leader of the National party is sitting there. I can see her. She’s holding up papers. |
| What she’s not doing is representing anyone in her party. | What she’s not doing is representing anyone in her party. |
| In taking a question from the South Australian senator Marielle Smith, Richard Colbeck responded with thanking Senator M Smith. | In taking a question from the South Australian senator Marielle Smith, Richard Colbeck responded with thanking Senator M Smith. |
| He seemed a little surprised to find himself corrected that her name was actually Marielle, and not M. | He seemed a little surprised to find himself corrected that her name was actually Marielle, and not M. |
| “Senator Marielle Smith if it pleases the chamber,” he says, adding he didn’t mean any offence but that M Smith was a “term I had heard in this chamber”. | “Senator Marielle Smith if it pleases the chamber,” he says, adding he didn’t mean any offence but that M Smith was a “term I had heard in this chamber”. |