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| Scott Morrison still under pressure over Angus Taylor response – politics live | Scott Morrison still under pressure over Angus Taylor response – politics live |
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| PM concedes a misstep in his defence of minister as Labor continues its attack. All the day’s events, live | PM concedes a misstep in his defence of minister as Labor continues its attack. All the day’s events, live |
| Labor will move to suspend standing orders at the start of parliament - Anthony Albanese said yesterday he wanted Scott Morrison to front the parliament to correct the record, rather than just send in the letter, and well, we know how that will end. | |
| So I would say the smart money would be on an immediate suspension. | |
| Anthony Albanese: | |
| Anthony Albanese has stopped by doors - which is something he does when he feels like he has something to say to kick the day off. It is unusual for the leader to drop by doors (named because they are tiny press conferences held as the MPs enter the building - but because there are so many ways to enter the building, including ways where you don’t have to go through the doors and can avoid the media if you so wish - if an MP wanders past the doors, it is because they have something to say publicly) | |
| It’s about Angus Taylor, because of course it is. | |
| Jacqui Lambie is still not confirming anything about what her ‘one condition’ is | |
| Rebekha Sharkie on RN: | |
| Centre Alliance lower house MP Rebekha Sharkie is speaking to ABC radio about how the Angus Taylor saga is just further proof that Australia needs a federal Icac. | |
| She also wants the prime minister to release his transcript of his phone call with NSW police commissioner Mick Fuller to put to bed any lingering questions. | |
| Christopher Knaus spoke to David Ipp about Scott Morrison’s phone call to Mick Fuller | Christopher Knaus spoke to David Ipp about Scott Morrison’s phone call to Mick Fuller |
| The ensuring integrity bill didn’t pass last night, because there are a truck load of amendments that need to go through, but it will pass. | The ensuring integrity bill didn’t pass last night, because there are a truck load of amendments that need to go through, but it will pass. |
| Pretty much every single Labor senator has something to say about it, with the opposition pointing to repealing it, if it wins the next election. | Pretty much every single Labor senator has something to say about it, with the opposition pointing to repealing it, if it wins the next election. |
| But One Nation and Centre Alliance are on-board, and that is enough. | But One Nation and Centre Alliance are on-board, and that is enough. |
| We enter the fifth last sitting day of the year still talking about Angus Taylor, with a big dose of Scott Morrison as well. The prime minister was forced to correct the record after attributing a 2GB Sydney radio host Ben Fordham quote to Victorian police during question time yesterday. | |
| Morrison had said that a Victorian detective had said Julia Gillard “is under investigation by police, this is a fact” in 2013 as part of a defence arguing that Labor ministers had not stepped aside during police investigations. But after reporting from the Australian, which showed the quote was actually from Fordham talking about the issue during a radio broadcast, Morrison was forced to write to the Speaker and admit his mistake. | |
| Labor is not letting it go. The government is still trying to talk about the economy but it has lost the entire week to this, with each press conference and question time taken up with defending Taylor. | |
| Morrison’s judgment, in making a phone call to NSW police commissioner, Mick Fuller, about the investigation has also pulled the prime minister into the saga. Both Fuller and Morrison say there was nothing untoward about the call, and that Morrison had received information which was already available in the public domain. But a political leader calling a police commissioner about an investigation into one of his MPs is not a great look, and the defence – I told you I was going to do it – isn’t helping matters. | |
| Labor wants the phone call documents. That’ll drag on throughout today. | Labor wants the phone call documents. That’ll drag on throughout today. |
| There are also the negotiations over medevac. Jacqui Lambie said she would vote for the repeal on one condition but won’t say what the condition is. The government knows but the public doesn’t. Nine newspapers are reporting it is the government accepting the New Zealand offer to resettle some of the Manus Island and Nauru asylum seekers. We couldn’t confirm that yesterday, with nothing ruled in or out. | |
| We’ll have all of the ongoing shenanigans and whatever else happens in this increasingly insane place. Mike Bowers, Katharine Murphy, Sarah Martin and Paul Karp are with you. I’ve had three coffees and am looking for my fourth. | |
| Ready? | Ready? |
| Let’s get into it. | Let’s get into it. |