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Labor slams ‘secret deal’ between Coalition and Jacqui Lambie on medevac repeal bill – politics live | Labor slams ‘secret deal’ between Coalition and Jacqui Lambie on medevac repeal bill – politics live |
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ALP fears Senate won’t have opportunity to see the deal before the vote as government moves a motion to push through bill. Plus Nationals under pressure over Murray-Darling Basin plan. Follow all the day’s political news live | ALP fears Senate won’t have opportunity to see the deal before the vote as government moves a motion to push through bill. Plus Nationals under pressure over Murray-Darling Basin plan. Follow all the day’s political news live |
Pauline Hanson is repeating the fact (which we’re also seeing in a lot of newspapers) that people brought here under medevac aren’t in hospital. | |
It’s worth noting (again) that the purpose of medevac is to bring people to Australia for medical care or assessment which is unavailable in PNG and Nauru. That does not necessarily equal hospitalisation. And a lack of hospitalisation does not equal a scammed medevac. | |
Hanson then says a bunch of stuff that are not facts. | |
Pauline Hanson is on her feet. She doesn’t seem perturbed about not knowing the nature of the deal between Lambie and the Coalition. Instead, she’s attacking Labor and claiming medevac repeal is wanted by most Australians. | |
Katharine Murphy, who’s in the chamber, reports that a Labor interjector has given her a handy fact. | |
“The majority of Australian support medevac, you silly woman.” | |
The current debate is on Labor’s attempt to force the government to table all documents about its deal with Jacqui Lambie before the repeal bill is voted on. | |
It’s expected to go for about half an hour. Labor will need an absolute majority, but if it wins, it would effectively mean the bill cannot pass until those documents are provided to the Senate. | |
Finance minister Mathias Cormann is up on his feet. | |
He continues: | He continues: |
While Penny Wong is in full flight, Mathias Cormann makes a brief check on Lambie, who has resumed her seat. | |
Jacqui Lambie is now wandering, at large, at the back of the chamber. | |
The government wins the vote and we’re now debating the bill. Labor is attempting to move amendments to force the government to disclose its deal with Jacqui Lambie. | |
Penny Wong is attempting to suspend standing orders. | |
She wants debate delayed until “all documents relating to negotiations between the government and Jacqui Lambie” are laid on the table. | |
She continues: | |
We’re now voting to bring on consideration of the bill immediately. | |
The government wins the vote to limit debate 38-36. | |
Mike Bowers is in the chamber. | |
The government wins the vote to suspend standing orders 38-37, with Lambie’s vote critical. | |
It is now bringing on a vote to limit the debate. | |
Lambie is voting with the government in this division. There is much bonohomie on that side of the chamber. | |
Over the other side, the two Centre Alliance senators Stirling Griff and Rex Patrick are boxed in by Kristina Keneally and Katy Gallagher. | |
Jacqui Lambie has just entered the chamber. She looks cheerful. Malcolm Roberts from One Nation meanwhile is engaged in conversation with the Greens senator Janet Rice. | |
There is some speculation from senators that Scott Morrison has agreed with Lambie to pursue the New Zealand deal but only after the US deal has been fully executed. That’s what people think. |