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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 |
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| Government MPs lash out at Labor over its emissions target before the parties spar on climate and more in question time, which begins with tributes to Hannah Clarke and her children. All the days events, live | |
| Right, here is what the National Farmers’ Federation position on carbon neutrality is. | |
| Before question time, the government’s bill for an amnesty for employers who failed to pay superannuation passed the Senate, despite Labor’s attempt to amend it to include an enforceable right for unions and workers to pursue unpaid super in the Fair Work Commission. | |
| Rex Patrick told the Senate Centre Alliance decided to support the bill after assistant minister for superannuation Jane Humemade a commitment to consider Labor’s amendment separately. Hume confirmed the government will “consider the options outlined in Labor’s amendment” in the next six months, because it believed it needed “considerable time and scrutiny” before the plan could be approved. | |
| In a statement Hume said: | |
| “This policy is all about reuniting hardworking Australians with their super. We anticipate at least $160 million of super will be paid to Australian workers who would otherwise miss out. | |
| Since the one-off amnesty was originally announced back in 2018, over 7,000 employers have already come forward to voluntarily disclose historical unpaid super. We estimate an additional 7,000 employers will come forward in the next six months before the amnesty ends.” | |
| “Employers will not be off the hook. To use the amnesty, they must still pay all that is owing to their employees, including the high rate of interest. However, the amnesty will make it easier for workers to secure the super they are owed by not hitting employers with the penalties usually associated with late payment.” | |
| Labor believes that the amount the government is claiming will be paid back pales in comparison to the $5.9bn a year Industry Super Australia has estimated is ripped off by employers from workers. | |
| The good news is that this problem should be a thing of the past because Australian Tax Office oversight is much improved with single touch payroll giving them real-time information when employers fail to pay super. | |
| The last moment the House actually achieved anything | |
| Scott Morrison keeps question time going for one last lickspittle on just how incredible the government’s climate policy is, and he responds with just how terrible Labor is. | |
| Question time ends. | |
| Christian Porter announces changes to a bunch of committees, removing Llew O’Brien from their membership. | |
| Nick Champion to Scott Morrison: | |
| My question is to the prime minister: can he confirm 42% of the urban congestion fund for South Australia is allocated to the marginal state of Boothby? Is there no traffic congestion on the seats of Hindmarsh, Spence and Kingston? | |
| Morrison: | |
| The member for Boothby, Nicolle Flint, nods along with this assessment. | |
| The National Farmers’ Federation assures me it will be sending through a statement on what its carbon neutrality position actually is. | The National Farmers’ Federation assures me it will be sending through a statement on what its carbon neutrality position actually is. |
| Question time is still going for some reason. | Question time is still going for some reason. |
| There has been way, way too much Michael McCormack for anyone’s liking. Including his own side of the chamber, if their faces are any indication. | |
| He’s back again. | He’s back again. |
| I read in one of Sharri Markson’s columns that he doesn’t believe he deserves to be called boring because he brings the house down when he does speeches, and dresses as Elvis. | I read in one of Sharri Markson’s columns that he doesn’t believe he deserves to be called boring because he brings the house down when he does speeches, and dresses as Elvis. |
| Wow. I take it all back. He can make people who buy tickets to see him and want to court his influence laugh, and dresses up as Elvis. What. A. Great. Leader. | Wow. I take it all back. He can make people who buy tickets to see him and want to court his influence laugh, and dresses up as Elvis. What. A. Great. Leader. |
| John Anderson wasn’t showy. Tim Fischer wasn’t either. Warren Truss was also pretty solid and staid. | John Anderson wasn’t showy. Tim Fischer wasn’t either. Warren Truss was also pretty solid and staid. |
| You know what they did, though? They did their job. They represented their constituents. | |
| Spot the difference? | Spot the difference? |
| Stop with the ridiculous slogans and culture wars, the pitting of city and country voters against each other, the bullshit about looking steers in the eyes, and country people never telling lies and just be better. | |
| Oh god. Now Labor is summoning Michael McCormack: | Oh god. Now Labor is summoning Michael McCormack: |
| Why did 94% of the central coast package from the urban congestion fund go to one seat, the marginal Liberal seat of Robertson? Is traffic congestion in the rest of the central coast not a problem? | Why did 94% of the central coast package from the urban congestion fund go to one seat, the marginal Liberal seat of Robertson? Is traffic congestion in the rest of the central coast not a problem? |
| McCormack: | McCormack: |
| He keeps going, but I just hear Edvard Munch’s The Scream. | He keeps going, but I just hear Edvard Munch’s The Scream. |
| Tony Burke is not playing with his point of orders after Catherine King was kicked out, and he brings up that McCormack has not raised anything to do with the central coast. | Tony Burke is not playing with his point of orders after Catherine King was kicked out, and he brings up that McCormack has not raised anything to do with the central coast. |
| Then Anthony Albanese pops up to say these weren’t election commitments, they were in the budget. | Then Anthony Albanese pops up to say these weren’t election commitments, they were in the budget. |
| McCormack has another go at speaking: | McCormack has another go at speaking: |
| How do you stop livestock from passing wind? | How do you stop livestock from passing wind? |
| The CSIRO is working on that. | The CSIRO is working on that. |
| These are the same people who helped give us Twisties (among, you know, some other pretty important things) so I think they know what they are doing. | These are the same people who helped give us Twisties (among, you know, some other pretty important things) so I think they know what they are doing. |
| I am now rocking under my desk, so to discover just how awe-smackingly stupid this latest “debate” is, read this. | I am now rocking under my desk, so to discover just how awe-smackingly stupid this latest “debate” is, read this. |
| Catherine King is booted from question time for making a “political point during a point of order”. | Catherine King is booted from question time for making a “political point during a point of order”. |
| Greens senator Larissa Waters has asked the minister for women, Marise Payne, about Pauline Hanson’s comments on domestic violence that “these things happen” in relation to the murder of Hannah Clarke and her three children by her former partner.Payne replied: | Greens senator Larissa Waters has asked the minister for women, Marise Payne, about Pauline Hanson’s comments on domestic violence that “these things happen” in relation to the murder of Hannah Clarke and her three children by her former partner.Payne replied: |
| Payne avoided Waters’ question about whether the government would seek to remove Hanson as deputy chair of the family law inquiry. | Payne avoided Waters’ question about whether the government would seek to remove Hanson as deputy chair of the family law inquiry. |
| Asked about funding for domestic violence services, Payne had a shot at the Greens by noting that the Coalition and Labor “will not be politicising the events of last week”, then spruiked the benefits of the $340m fourth action plan on domestic violence. | Asked about funding for domestic violence services, Payne had a shot at the Greens by noting that the Coalition and Labor “will not be politicising the events of last week”, then spruiked the benefits of the $340m fourth action plan on domestic violence. |
| Anthony Albanese to Scott Morrison: | Anthony Albanese to Scott Morrison: |
| So far in this parliament the prime minister has used his numbers to shut down debate with me on 42 occasions. If the prime minister is so confident of his position, will he agree to a climate change debate at the National Press Club before the climate change conference in Glasgow this year? | So far in this parliament the prime minister has used his numbers to shut down debate with me on 42 occasions. If the prime minister is so confident of his position, will he agree to a climate change debate at the National Press Club before the climate change conference in Glasgow this year? |
| Morrison: | Morrison: |
| Just for the record, here is what Morrison said when he returned from Hawaii during the bushfire crisis: | Just for the record, here is what Morrison said when he returned from Hawaii during the bushfire crisis: |