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| Scott Morrison still under pressure over Angus Taylor response – question time live | Scott Morrison still under pressure over Angus Taylor response – question time 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 |
| Senate question time has been all Angus Taylor all the time. Mathias Cormann stuck by Taylor and read a long list of his achievements - a list which did not include reducing emissions, despite him being the minister for emissions reduction. | |
| Then Labor switches tack to Simon Birmingham - querying why he had said on the ABC that Taylor sourced the erroneous document from the City of Sydney website, but in the Senate he said only that that is what Taylor has advised.Murray Watt started singing The Wheels on the Bus (Go Round and Round), in reference to his belief Birmingham’s earlier answer had thrown Taylor under the bus. | |
| Birmingham said he received briefings from Taylor, and repeated that he was advised it was sourced from the City of Sydney website. “They can continue to ask again and they’re going to get the same answer again.” | |
| Labor’s Penny Wong then asked who doctored the document, and Birmingham rejected the premise because “according to Mr Taylor” it was downloaded from the council website. Wong makes much of the fact he won’t say in parliament that he doesn’t know who doctored it. | |
| Anthony Albanese to Scott Morrison: | |
| My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. How can the Prime Minister claim that the Opposition made no objection to his statement that he would call the New South Wales police commissioner about the substance of Strike Force Garrad into one of his cabinet ministers when the Prime Minister has prevented the Parliament debating this deepening scandal 20 times this week. | |
| Morrison: | |
| Labor points out it did not vote against the bill, but the prime minister has concluded his answer. | |
| So many chains to pull. So little time. | |
| It’s a small point, and I am sure a lot of people would argue semantics, but on the “who did you think I was going to call defence/I told you I was going to do it” that Scott Morrison is using, he didn’t actually say he would call the NSW police commissioner - my look over of the Hansard shows he said variations of this: | |
| Which is not ‘I am calling the police commissioner’. | |
| That could have meant a departmental officer will call a NSW police departmental officer, to receive the same advice. Not I’m going to give the Commish a call directly about an investigation involving one of my ministers. | |
| Anthony Albanese to Scott Morrison: | |
| Morrison: | |
| The man who accused those of caring about climate change of being inner-city raving lunatics, wants the chamber to know he has been “really disappointed in the antics this week”. | |
| Excuse me while I wipe that wet lettuce off my face. | |
| If you ever wandered what a fusty nut missing a kernel looked like, I invite you to look into the chamber as the deputy prime minister takes this dixer. | |
| ARE YOU FRICKING KIDDING ME? | |
| Anthony Albanese to Scott Morrison: | |
| Former anti-corruption commissioner and supreme court judge David Ipp AO QC has said in relation to the prime minister’s phone call to the New South Wales police commissioner, and I quote, ‘You can’t see that it’s information that relates to matters of state interest. It can only relate to matters of party interest.’ How on earth was that phone call appropriate? | |
| Morrison: | |
| Zali Steggall used her 90-second statement just before question time to call for silence for Australia’s domestic violence victims: | |
| Anne Davies has an update on the Angus Taylor investigation: | |
| Scott Morrison: | |
| “Political games” is getting quite the go here. Looks like the government has found it’s line for the day. | |
| If you have a go at political games, you’ll get a go at political games. | |
| Anthony Albanese to Scott Morrison: | |
| This morning [Scott Morrison] refused to attend this chamber and correct the record and apologise for misleading the House. Why does the Prime Minister think the usual standards of integrity and accountability don’t apply to him? | |
| Morrison: | |
| I don’t accept the assertion that has been put forward by the Leader of the Opposition. The matters that he referred to yesterday, Mr Speaker. | |
| With regard to the attribution of a quote. When it was brought to my attention I took immediate action to ensure that the House was informed of that correction. Now, Mr Speaker, I hear the interjection of the Leader of the Opposition ... The reason I wrote a letter last night is because I was on a plane on the way to Sydney for a family event which the Leader of the Opposition knew about. | |
| ... Mr Speaker, that letter which I authorised was provided to the House and it was tabled here by the attorney general to ensure the House was immediately informed of the necessary correction that had to be made. | |
| ... Now, Mr Speaker, that was followed up with a further letter to the clerk and as you advised the House last night these are the appropriate forms of the House to correct the record. So if the Leader of the Opposition wants to take issue with the Speaker on this matter he’s at liberty do so. | |
| But here we are in question time, in the nation’s capital... | |
| The Leader of the Opposition is bickering about a quotation in an answer to a question which has been corrected for the record. This is what the Leader of the Opposition believes are the real issues facing this country. | |
| And the political games that the Leader of the Opposition, the tawdry political games ... has been engaged in, in this House this week, found their overreach particularly today when the Leader of the Opposition voted to see that the member for Herbert could no longer be heard when he was speaking, Mr Speaker, on the issue of veteran suicide. | |
| ... So the political games being played by the Leader of the Opposition and the Labor party this week descended so low that a veteran of this country speaking about veteran suicide ... | |
| Anthony Albanese has taken the rare step of making a 90-second statement (they are usually for backbenchers) – and he has timed it on the list for just as Scott Morrison walks into the chamber. | Anthony Albanese has taken the rare step of making a 90-second statement (they are usually for backbenchers) – and he has timed it on the list for just as Scott Morrison walks into the chamber. |
| “An ad man with no plan, a showman, covering up a scam,” says Albanese, as Morrison takes his seat. | “An ad man with no plan, a showman, covering up a scam,” says Albanese, as Morrison takes his seat. |
| Who’s that MP? | Who’s that MP? |
| It’s Tony Pasin. | It’s Tony Pasin. |
| It was just hard to place him, given he was sitting in the back benches (Pasin likes to make a beeline for the front bench during division votes. Almost without fail. A MP can dream, I suppose) | It was just hard to place him, given he was sitting in the back benches (Pasin likes to make a beeline for the front bench during division votes. Almost without fail. A MP can dream, I suppose) |