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Labor pursues PM over call to NSW police about Angus Taylor – politics live
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Tony Smith brings up the closure motions which Labor moved in the federation chamber - there were 80 overnight and this morning - which shut down constituency matters.
Victorian Legal Aid has won its challenge against robo-debt, with the federal court ruling it unlawful.
Smith says he will, following practices, will not be allowing divisions to return to the chamber to be voted on - so that the debates there can continue (on those issues)
That is pretty huge news.
Which is a Speaker’s way of saying ‘stop messing around’
Mark Dreyfus spoke to Patricia Karvelas about it:
How Mike Bowers saw question time:
It looks like Connie Fierravanti-Wells wanted to speak on something to do with modernisation of the rules of Senate committees – but for some reason, the government did not want that to happen.
A little bit of unusualness – even for the Senate – just occurred.
Connie Fierravanti-Wells was just denied leave by her own side of the chamber to speak on her motion.
Also:
Jacqui Lambie will support the repeal of medevac, if the government meets her one amendment:
Tony Smith brings up the closure motions which Labor moved in the federation chamber – there were 80 overnight and this morning – which shut down constituency matters.
Smith says he will, following practices, will not be allowing divisions to return to the chamber to be voted on – so that the debates there can continue (on those issues)
Which is a Speaker’s way of saying “stop messing around”.
Question time ends.
Question time ends.
Scott Morrison’s folders are stacked, but we have to have the Greg Hunt dixer, because there is no such thing as too much punishment.
Scott Morrison’s folders are stacked, but we have to have the Greg Hunt dixer, because there is no such thing as too much punishment.
Tony Pasin once again heads straight to the front bench in the division side swap.
Tony Pasin once again heads straight to the front bench in the division side swap.
Honestly, if the benches allowed him to swing his legs, he would.
Honestly, if the benches allowed him to swing his legs, he would.
FOI it like the rest of us.
Ed Husic tells the government to look up Garrad on urban dictionary.
If you want to get the joke, look up Garrad on urban dictionary.
“No standards, no integrity, just a bunch of dumb...” Richard Marles says, deliberately letting the sentence hang.
We go to another division.
“They’ve finally drawn attention away from this minister by focusing on the prime minister,” Mark Butler gets out before the motion is once again shut down.
There is a lot of beige in the chamber today – and I don’t just mean the deputy prime minister.
Seems it is the colour du jour.
Tim Watts yells out: “When are you going to appoint a horse to the Senate?”
History buffs would appreciate the Caligula reference.
Some would say it’s been done.
Leave is denied.
And we enter the 10th circle of hell.
The motion:
I seek leave to move the following motion – that the House:1) notes that:
a) shortly before question time yesterday, the NSW police issued a statementconfirming that detectives had launched Strike Force Garrad to investigate afraudulent document used by the minister for emissions reduction;
b) the statement by the NSW police said “as investigations are ongoing, no furtherinformation is available”;
c) despite that statement and only hours later, the prime minister called the NSW policecommissioner and sought further information, later telling the parliament they hadspoken “about the instigation, the nature and the substance of their inquiries”;
d) today, Malcolm Turnbull said it would have been much better had the primeminister’s phone call to the NSW police commissioner not been made because it wasimportant the inquiry “is seen to be conducted entirely free of political influence”; and
e) when members of his government were the subject of a police investigation, JohnHoward said: “I told my colleagues that the Federal police should be allowed to carryout this investigation without let or hindrance from me or anybody in the federalgovernment”; and
2) therefore, the House resolves the prime minister acted inappropriately by:a) calling the NSW police commissioner when all he had in mind was his own politicalinterest and not the national interest; andb) thinking none of the usual rules of integrity and accountability apply to him.
For the second day in a row Labor’s Tony Sheldon has asked about potential changes to the unfair dismissal rules and the Better Off Overall Test for enterprise agreements.Marise Payne, representing the IR minister, notes that the small business commissioner has suggested the small business unfair dismissal code was “not achieving its original intent”.
She notes consultation through a discussion paper to discover “how it might be amended to be clearer” in relation to fairness of decisions to dismiss employees. She confirms a separate paper will examine enterprise bargaining.
When Sheldon asks why the Coalition didn’t seek a mandate for Work Choices mark 2, Payne rejects the premise of the question and claims the Coalition is “very clear in relation to our policies”.
Murray Watt heckles to “show me the press conference where this was announced”. It’s true – none of this was announced before the election. But then, it wasn’t ruled out either.
