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| Labor fails to suspend standing orders over Angus Taylor – politics live | |
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| Jacqui Lambie ‘not supporting a repeal’ of medevac, Rex Patrick says; and Asio investigating Australian Chinese spy. All the day’s events, live | |
| So we didn’t get any speeches in defence of Angus Taylor from the government, just a call to division. | |
| I am told that is because they want this division wrapped up quickly, but there is also the matter of not wanting too many images. | |
| Ayes 68 | |
| Noes 71 | |
| Christian Porter is back in the main chair – the motion has been denied, so we are off to a division. | |
| Let the running of the government MPs begin. | |
| “The minister has been devious or bumbling, or both,” says Mark Butler. | |
| Butler says the $15m travel bill Angus Taylor erroneously attributed to the City of Sydney worked out to $28,000 per councillor, per week. | |
| He says a Rhodes scholar could probably have done the maths. | |
| For those who don’t know, Taylor is a former Rhodes scholar. | |
| Tony Burke says that if the government doesn’t demand Angus Taylor come in and explain himself over where the figures came from, “there are no standards left”. | |
| Mark Butler is now seconding the motion. | |
| We are getting speeches on this because the government usually just shuts this stuff down during question time, because that is when people are actually listening. It is also why Labor is doing it a bit earlier – so that it can get a bit of a run with its comments. | |
| But Labor does not have the numbers to suspend standing orders, so this won’t go anywhere – beyond Labor having it on the Hansard. | |
| Tony Burke: | |
| Tony Burke says the Angus Taylor issue is the “most clear cut example I have ever seen” of a member misleading the House. | |
| “There are very few standards these days that ministers actually get held to – and the last one is the minister does not mislead the House,” Burke said in parliament. | |
| He is basing this on Taylor’s claim that the document was drawn “directly” from the City of Sydney website which, based on metadata, showed had not altered the report since it was loaded in November 2018. | |
| Tony Burke is attempting to move a motion to suspend standing orders over Angus Taylor: | |
| That the House: | |
| Expect more of this sort of trolling this week. | |
| The Australian Council of Trade Unions is in a full-court press urging the crossbench to block the ensuring integrity bill. At a press conference in Canberra, representatives from eight unions (but not the Construction Forestry Mining Maritime and Energy Union) explained the impact of penalties such as deregistration for breaches including unprotected industrial action. | |
| The ACTU president, Michelle O’Neill, said it was not just the construction union in the frame, as campaigns including the nurses’ push for nurse-to-patient ratios could result in union deregistration. | |
| She said: | |
| O’Neill said if the bill went through “unions will always stand up for justice and fairness” – suggesting the bill won’t be the end of all forms of unprotected industrial action. But she refused to be drawn about what the consequences would be of deregistering the CFMMEU and what the movement’s next steps would be. | |
| She praised Jacqui Lambie and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation for continuing to engage on the bill. | |
| One of the press gallery keepers of all knowledge has just let me know the camels are on their way as part of one man’s crusade to raise awareness of melanomas. | |
| John Elliott has walked from Perth to Canberra with the camels. | |
| Mike Bowers has just received a phone call saying there are camels being led across the Kings Avenue bridge looking as though they are on their way to parliament. | Mike Bowers has just received a phone call saying there are camels being led across the Kings Avenue bridge looking as though they are on their way to parliament. |
| There’s three of them. No word on wise men, or any spotting of gold, frankincense or myrrh. | There’s three of them. No word on wise men, or any spotting of gold, frankincense or myrrh. |
| Just another week in parliament. | Just another week in parliament. |
| Peter Dutton has an update on the industry advisory group which will “help guide the development of Australia’s 2020 cyber security strategy”. Its first meeting was today: | Peter Dutton has an update on the industry advisory group which will “help guide the development of Australia’s 2020 cyber security strategy”. Its first meeting was today: |
| Just a few quick notes on the Trump call, via officials. Apparently the conversation was initiated by Scott Morrison, and the Australian PM conveyed his deep appreciation for the efforts of the administration in securing the release of Timothy Weeks, the professor held hostage by the Taliban. | Just a few quick notes on the Trump call, via officials. Apparently the conversation was initiated by Scott Morrison, and the Australian PM conveyed his deep appreciation for the efforts of the administration in securing the release of Timothy Weeks, the professor held hostage by the Taliban. |
| The two leaders spoke about the bushfires, with Morrison thanking the US for sending firefighters. | The two leaders spoke about the bushfires, with Morrison thanking the US for sending firefighters. |
| Morrison also expressed support for Trump trying to end the trade dispute with China, and there was a discussion about Australian and US economies. | Morrison also expressed support for Trump trying to end the trade dispute with China, and there was a discussion about Australian and US economies. |