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| Government to move forward with banking royal commission response following Westpac – politics live | Government to move forward with banking royal commission response following Westpac – politics live |
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| Frydenberg promises legislation inspired by recommendations after Westpac chief executive’s resignation draws little sympathy on all sides of politics. All the day’s events, live | Frydenberg promises legislation inspired by recommendations after Westpac chief executive’s resignation draws little sympathy on all sides of politics. All the day’s events, live |
| In October the federal court ruled in favour of the Australian Workers Unionregarding the Registered Organisations Commission raids - finding that the “suspicion” that the union had breached its rules was not a reasonable ground to conduct the raid. | |
| But the case continued, in order to decide what flowed from that in terms of whether evidence collected would need to be returned. | |
| On Tuesday justice Mordy Bromberg gave orders including: | |
| THE COURT DECLARES THAT: 1. The decision of the first respondent by his delegate Mr Chris Enright made on 20 October 2017 to commence investigation INV2017/30 into the applicant (“Decision”), is invalid. THE COURT ORDERS THAT: 2. The Decision of the first respondent, by his delegate Mr Chris Enright, is quashed. 3. The second respondent (by himself or by his servants or agents) return to the applicant the documents seized pursuant to the warrants issued by Magistrate Reynolds on 24 October 2017 pursuant to s 335L of the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009 (Cth).So the AWU has had the documents returned. | |
| Kevin Rudd has launched Peter Hartcher’s quarterly essay on Australia’s relationship with China, talking about the “difficult” relationship and making recommendations on what the government can do to improve ties. | |
| He would not comment on this week’s explosive revelations in the Nine papers about an alleged infiltration plot of Australia’s parliament, saying he was “out of the loop”, but said asylum should be considered for Liqiang Wang, the self declared defecting Chinese spy who has sought protection from the Australian government. | |
| Rudd directed his barbs to the Liberal party’s approach to China after the change in government in 2013, saying both Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull had “capitulated” to the Chinese on a range of issues. | |
| He singled out Australia’s retreat from the Pacific as having “opened the door” to Chinese influence in the region, pointing to Australia’s cuts to the aid budget and weak climate change policy. | |
| He said Australia had been “reckless” by cutting the aid budget.Rudd also criticised the Turnbull government for allowing the Chinese to lease the port of Darwin, saying the port was the point of entry for US marines and equipment. | |
| “The Americans were horrified, while the Chinese couldn’t believe their luck.”However the former PM also warned against “yellow peril”, saying the crackdown on foreign influence could easily lead to a form of racial profiling and warned against a “populist witch hunt”. | |
| The AWU has had a win in the federal court, with Justice Mordecai Bromberg ordering a return of the documents seized during the 2017 raid on the AWU offices. | |
| The ACTU has announced the news, linking it to the ensuring integrity bill: | |
| Josh Frydenberg said the government would be introducing two more pieces of legislation related to the banking royal commission recommendations this week. | |
| Labor says only six of the 76 recommendations have so far been implemented, meaning the government is running out of time to meet its own timetable. | |
| Stephen Jones: | |
| The Nationals water minister, David Littleproud, is calling for “calm, leadership and common sense” in the NSW water debate and I cannot stop laughing at the irony. | |
| Littleproud says it’s important the New South Wales government understands the full ramifications of withdrawing from the Murray-Darling basin plan. | |
| “The federal government would be potentially forced by NSW to recover water by buybacks, not the $1bn of water infrastructure we are prepared to deliver,” he said. | |
| “I don’t support buybacks. They destroy communities and I don’t want to be forced by law to undertake them if NSW pulls out. | |
| “That would be the outcome of leaving the plan. | |
| “We want to spend that money on water infrastructure to help stimulate NSW basin economies and create jobs. | |
| “The facts are clear: pulling out of the plan would not deliver one drop of water to a NSW farmer. | |
| “Ripping up the plan will only result in a worse one. | |
| “This is a time to show leadership and work together to get the best outcome in these difficult times.” | |
| Parliament’s human rights committee is unusually torn, AAP reports. Labor and the Greens are arguing against the government to seek an urgent change to laws aimed at reducing restraints in aged care. | Parliament’s human rights committee is unusually torn, AAP reports. Labor and the Greens are arguing against the government to seek an urgent change to laws aimed at reducing restraints in aged care. |
| The deputy chair of the traditionally bipartisan committee, Labor MP Graham Perrett, says the legislation creates confusion that could lead to physical and chemical restraints being used without consent. | The deputy chair of the traditionally bipartisan committee, Labor MP Graham Perrett, says the legislation creates confusion that could lead to physical and chemical restraints being used without consent. |
| “The dissenting report recommends that ... a new instrument be urgently reintroduced that ensures there is informed consent for the use of chemical restraints, a reduction in the use of restraints, and oversight and effective reporting on the use of restraints,” he told parliament. | “The dissenting report recommends that ... a new instrument be urgently reintroduced that ensures there is informed consent for the use of chemical restraints, a reduction in the use of restraints, and oversight and effective reporting on the use of restraints,” he told parliament. |
| Andrew Leigh had a chat to Adelaide radio 5AA this morning, which included this exchange: | Andrew Leigh had a chat to Adelaide radio 5AA this morning, which included this exchange: |
| Television?! | Television?! |
| “I’d like to see the banks reined in a lot more ... I am not saying where I stand on the integrity bill. I still need to have more discussions with the unions,” Pauline Hanson says. | “I’d like to see the banks reined in a lot more ... I am not saying where I stand on the integrity bill. I still need to have more discussions with the unions,” Pauline Hanson says. |
| Hanson says she was busy at the weekend so has only just had a chance to look over the amendments Christian Porter released on the bill late on Friday. | Hanson says she was busy at the weekend so has only just had a chance to look over the amendments Christian Porter released on the bill late on Friday. |
| “I will not be rushed on this,” she says. | “I will not be rushed on this,” she says. |
| Pauline Hanson is on Sky, saying she believes there is “a place for unions in Australia, by all means” but by the sound of things, she is close to agreeing to the bill. | Pauline Hanson is on Sky, saying she believes there is “a place for unions in Australia, by all means” but by the sound of things, she is close to agreeing to the bill. |
| There are whispers around that the government will seek to reorder business in the Senate this afternoon to bring on the ensuring integrity debate – but not the vote. | There are whispers around that the government will seek to reorder business in the Senate this afternoon to bring on the ensuring integrity debate – but not the vote. |
| We’ll keep an eye on that. | We’ll keep an eye on that. |
| Josh Frydenberg: | Josh Frydenberg: |