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Coalition reignites climate war over Labor's emissions policy – politics live
Coalition reignites climate war over Labor's emissions policy – politics live
(32 minutes later)
Government MPs have lashed out at Labor over its emissions target, with arguments in parliament’s corridors. All the days events, live
Government MPs have lashed out at Labor over its emissions target, with arguments in parliament’s corridors. All the days events, live
Anthony Albanese to Scott Morrison:
Can the Prime Minister confirm he suggested to the New South Wales Premier that the scope of the bushfire recovery cleanup funding proposal by New South Wales was not consistent with the black Saturday framework in a bid to reduce the costs to the Federal Government?
Morrison:
There is a moment of silence for Hannah Clarke and her family.
Then the questions begin
Anthony Albanese:
No one is saying Baxter represents all men.
That Pauline Hanson pulls out that card, at this time, is abhorrent.
Pauline Hanson’s statement in the Senate is long on condemnation on Rowan Baxter but its ultimate conclusion was simply this: not all men.
Hanson described the murders as the “ultimate act of betrayal” and a “calculated, cowardly and evil act”.
The incident has “further added fuel to an already twisted and difficult family law debate”, she said, adding that “many decent men are deprived of their parental rights”.
She concluded:
In the Senate, the MPs are also taking time to honour Hannah Clarke and her children.
Anthony Albanese:
Scott Morrison:
There are never any excuses, there are none, or justifications for the evil that Hannah and her children experienced – never, not under any circumstances.
With the states and territories and together as a parliament we will continue to work together to translate these words – that I’m sure the leader of the opposition will also state with the same passion – into actions and changes that make a real difference for women and children ... Let me read one of Hannah’s last Instagram posts. It expressed the hope. She wrote: “I am a strong woman” – no doubt she was – “I don’t sit around feeling sorry for myself, nor will I let anyone mistreat me again. I am a survivor, not a victim. I am in control of my life, and there is nothing I can’t achieve. My girls will grow up being strong women who understand their worth.”
This hope was crushed when Hannah and her children were murdered. We must work together, as we have been, for as long as it takes to restore that hope to those we know right now, today in this country, who are living in exactly the same danger as Hannah and her children.
Scott Morrison:
It starts with statements of indulgence about what happened to Hannah Clarke and her three children.
And the murders Australia just can’t seem to come to terms with.
He’s also not a fan of freedom of information requests.
Centre Alliance wants an inquiry into domestic and family violence:
Centre Alliance wants an inquiry into domestic and family violence:
Queensland did this in 2015.
Queensland did this in 2015.
The time for inquiries is probably done. The time for action is well passed. One thing we could stop doing though, is allowing Pauline Hanson and her ilk to lead the conversation.
The time for inquiries is probably done. The time for action is well past. One thing we could stop doing, though, is allowing Pauline Hanson and her ilk to lead the conversation.
Hannah and all the women who came before her – and the ones who are being failed as we speak – deserve so much more than what we’ve done.
Hannah and all the women who came before her – and the ones who are being failed as we speak – deserve so much more than what we’ve done.
It was inevitable the ‘debate’ would end up here.
It was inevitable the “debate” would end up here.
Everything is great. From Adam Morton:
Everything is great. From Adam Morton:
Greg Hunt has given a short update on the coronavirus (Covid-19) situation:
Greg Hunt has given a short update on the coronavirus (Covid-19) situation:
He has to leave because the division bells are ringing in the House.
He has to leave because the division bells are ringing in the House.
It is the downhill run to question time.
It is the downhill run to question time.
There is not a lot happening in the chambers at the moment.
There is not a lot happening in the chambers at the moment.
That just gives more time for the stupid to spill into the hallways
That just gives more time for the stupid to spill into the hallways
After a letter from Anthony Albanese (which we are told was hand-delivered), Speaker Tony Smith has agreed to allow the House to stand in a moment of silence for Hannah Clarke and her children, Laianah, 4, Aaliyah, 6, and Trey, 3.
And then every single MP needs to get very, very loud indeed about domestic and family violence – and those who attempt to excuse it with the abhorrent and deliberately outrageous “driven to it” lie.
Pauline Hanson was just on her feet in the Senate, arguing against Larissa Waters’ bill to close the Galilee basin, because it’s Australia and a day ending in y.
She doesn’t think we have had an “actual debate on hearing from the scientists about what global warming is about”.
Which I take to mean she either wants us to:
a) debate on whether we should hear from scientists on climate change
or
b) listen to the scientists’ debate about what global warming is about.
Hanson is paid $211,250 as a base salary for these gems. She also gets $44,100 in super contributions a year and $32,000 in electorate allowance. Plus a car. As a base.
She did manage one truth bomb, though, as she spoke about climate policy:
The poster child for Australian Rhodes scholars.
Pauline Hanson is helping to lead the latest family law court inquiry, which was set up by the government as a salve for her, despite the government having multiple reports into how the family court system could be improved – the most latest recommendations of which have not been implemented.
She also gets paid more to be the deputy chair of that committee, and gets to comment on family court issues, because the government gave her that legitimacy with the inquiry.
Great work by all involved, really. Just brilliant.
I don’t have enough evens to can’t today.
I just don’t.
Go back to bed, everyone. Wake me up when the apocalypse is half done.
Larissa Waters introduced a bill in the Senate to keep the Galilee basin closed to coal mining, saying:
The numbers are not there for it to pass the Senate – and there is zero chance of it passing the House.
Just a reminder that Pauline Hanson is paid to say things like this on the Nine Network’s Today show:
Don’t just take my word for it – the Today show also highlighted it in a tweet:
AAP has looked at Barnaby Joyce’s latest brain spurt, so we don’t have to:
Barnaby Joyce is sick of most senators being from capital cities and has a plan to change that.
The Nationals backbencher has introduced a private member’s bill to parliament which would split each state into six regions – like mega-electorates – that each vote for two senators.
“This is something that is so important,” he told the lower house on Monday. “We need for our Senate to have a constituency and to have the capacity to represent a geographic area.”
Joyce said that in most instances, 11-out-of-12 senators came from capital cities. He also pointed out that New York had two senators, while Adelaide had 11.
“We need to make sure that as the seats get bigger and bigger and bigger in the House of Representatives in regional areas, that this is offset by the capacity to get more Senate representation.”
Under the plan – which was seconded by independent MP Bob Katter – no region could be bigger than 30 per cent of the state’s landmass and the capital city would be confined to a single region.
Joyce said this would also help to improve indigenous representation in parliament.
The backbencher, who recently launched a failed bid to reclaim the Nationals leadership, said the proposal would not warrant a change to the Constitution. It was up to the parliament to change how senators were elected.
Senate president Scott Ryan was quick to shoot down Mr Joyce’s idea after he floated it last year.
“The current Senate is actually very reflective of the national vote despite the differences in state populations,” Ryan said. “But this proposal would destroy that.”
Father Frank Brennan, one of the Ruddock review panel members who conducted the inquiry on religious freedom, has had some interesting thoughts on the government’s religious discrimination bill and the way the debate has gone.
Brennan told the Australian Catholic University on Thursday:
“The Morrison government has decided not to pursue the Ruddock recommendation of a clean, lean religious discrimination act. Rather, in response to those who have long advocated a religious freedom act, the Morrison government is attempting to formulate what we might call a Religious Discrimination PLUS Bill which will include some bells and whistles you would not expect to find in a standard piece of anti-discrimination legislation.”
Brennan agreed with the Australian Human Rights Commission that legislating for individual cases - such as Israel Folau and Archbishop Porteous- “is not good legislative practice” and said that he is “not convinced” that the commonwealth overriding Victorian rules requiring doctors to refer patients for abortions is the best way to go.Brennan predicted the bill will not pass, and hopes the states will fix issues with their laws without commonwealth intervention:
“I think there is little prospect of any Religious Discrimination PLUS Bill passing the Senate. When such a bill is ultimately rejected by the Senate, I do hope that our federal politicians will have the good sense to legislate a neat and clean Religious Discrimination Act, and our politicians in the NSW and South Australian parliaments will have the good sense to bring their legislation up to an appropriate standard honouring our commitments and undertakings under the ICCPR.”Brennan noted that the Coalition and Labor had agreed that schools should not be able to discriminate against students on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, but said he “[despaired] at our parliament’s protracted delay and incapacity to deliver on this commitment”.
A friend of the blog has also pointed me in the direction of this handy website, which, with the help of Monash university resources, is helping to track those looking at net zero emissions by 2050
