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Liberal MP says Coalition needs to look at a 2050 net zero emissions target – politics live
Liberal MP says Coalition needs to look at a 2050 net zero emissions target – question time live
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Trent Zimmerman says Australia needs to look beyond good target for 2030 as we head into Glasgow. All the day’s events, live
Trent Zimmerman says Australia should think beyond 2030 as the world prepares for the Glasgow climate conference. All the day’s events, live
It’s time for who’s that MP?
Anthony Albanese to Scott Morrison:
It’s Andrew Wallace.
My question again goes to the Prime Minister, and I refer to his previous answer: How could the minister’s decision be made on 4 April if Senator McKenzie sought the agreement of the Prime Minister and his office on 10 April? Can the Prime Minister guarantee that the document by Minister McKenzie was not backdated?
He’s a LNP backbencher, from the Sunshine Coast.
Morrison:
It’s OK if you didn’t know that.
Mr Speaker, as I responded earlier, as Sport Australia advised the committee this morning, Senator McKenzie’s authority, approval, of the projects was dated and provided on 4 April 2019. Mr Speaker, what the.....has suggested is that there was some requirement for the Prime Minister...
Asked about the Nationals (and some Liberals) who claim a net zero 2050 emissions target would bring about end of days, Trent Zimmerman tells the ABC:
(there are interjections)
On the subject of a 2050 net zero emissions target though, Trent Zimmerman is a lot more bolshie.
Morrison:
Trent Zimmerman is speaking to the ABC about the North Sydney pool which received funding from a government program set aside for regional projects:
Siri - show me what fudging looks like
We are in the downhill slide to question time – because obviously time flies when you are slowly dying inside.
And the idea of a well-being budget has been floated previously - by Josh Frydenberg’s own side of politics.
It doesn’t take a genius to work out that sports grants will feature fairly prominently.
Here is Tim Fischer, former Nationals leader and deputy prime minister, writing in the Australian in 2006
Labor has also backed the government’s small and medium business fund.
Government MPs are now wetting themselves laughing over yoga positions.
From AAP:
Tim Wilson almost breaks his desk he slaps it so hard.
Small and medium businesses will soon be able to access a new $540m investment fund to stimulate growth.
Josh Frydenberg:
Labor will back the coalition government’s election promise, paving the way for legislation to pass federal parliament.
He comes with an illustration, but is told to put it away.
Eligible Australian businesses will be able to access investments of between $5m and $15m, provided they can demonstrate three years of growth and profitability.
I know I have harped on about this, but it is really, really disappointing the treasurer is continuing with this attack. It’s been every day this week now, and it’s low. Because we know governments should be looking at the well being of their people. It’s one of their main jobs. And there are plenty of examples of western nations, similar to our own, who have put out a statement, with the budget, listing how it applies to improving the welfare of the people.
The Australian Business Growth Fund will get $100m from taxpayers with each of the big four banks matching the contribution.
Laughing about yoga poses, elements of eastern cultures and religions, and the idea of looking after the most vulnerable people in our society is not only juvenile, it shows contempt for large sections of the community the government claims to represent.
HSBC and Macquarie Group will tip in $20m apiece to give the fund an initial $540m, which is estimated to rise to $1bn as it matures.
Josh Frydenberg:
Greens senator Peter Whish-Wilson criticised spending $100m of public money on a fund run by the big banks.
Tony Burke asks about relevance.
“Why give them a leg up by essentially giving them control of an enormously influential private equity fund in the area of small and medium enterprise financing,” he told parliament.
Tony Smith: The question did ask about alternative policies, and, uh... I’m listening very closely.I’m just going to point out to theTreasurer that no-one would enter the chamber in the way he says, ‘cause it would breach the dress code in the standing orders.
Centre Alliance senator Rex Patrick raised concerns the fund’s investment instructions were not public.
Josh Frydenberg is once again heaping shit on the idea of a wellbeing budget.
“It begs the question, why do you ask the Senate to vote on it when we are blind to the mandate,” he said.
How good is a government that cares?
A Labor motion to set up a Senate inquiry into Holden’s withdrawal from Australia has passed.
Labor’s first two questions in the Senate are about the timeline of Sports Australia receiving the final list of projects to receive sports grants at 8:46am on 11 April, 2019, 17 minutes after parliament was prorogued and the government entered caretaker.Anthony Chisholm suggests this was a “breach of the caretaker conventions”.
The inquiry will look at:
Mathias Cormann: “The minister did nothing of the sort.”
(a) The impacts of that decision on:
Cormann notes Sports Australia’s evidence that although it RECEIVED the brief on 11 April, it was DATED 4 April.
(b) The role of the Franchise Code and the Government’s proposed dealership amendments to the Franchise Code.
Chisholm suggests this was “backdated” to 4 April, after Bridget McKenzie sought feedback from the prime minister on 10 April. Cormann repeats it was “dated” 4 April and accuses Labor of making “false assertions”.
(c) Government or other policy settings on manufacturing, research and development, business support and transition, and employee support.
Dated or backdated - who to believe?
(d) Any related matters.
Andrew Wilkie to Michael McCormack:
Brendan O’Connor says it is necessary:
McCormack (who is reading from this answer, very diligently):
This motion, from Larissa Waters, just failed the Senate – the day after a vigil for Hannah Clarke and her children was held in parliament:
Anthony Albanese to Scott Morrison:
Pauline Hanson called a vote on the motion (Waters puts forward this motion every fortnight, with the updated figure of women who have been killed in domestic and family violence incidents – a lot of the time it is passed on the voices).
Morrison:
Once the vote was called, Hanson, Malcolm Roberts, the government and Jacqui Lambie voted it down.
In related news, my eye has twitched so hard, it’s now flying around the room.
The Senate notes that:
Paul Karp tells me Labor is asking the same questions in the Senate about the sports grants affair – and is getting the same answers.
(a) Since the last sitting of the Senate, two more women have been killed by violence in Australia taking the national toll since the start of 2020 to nine, as reported by Counting Dead Women Australia from Destroy The Joint.
Michael McCormack is delivering a dixer with the dazzle of a poorly tuned piano, and Christian Porter looks like he is drifting off to his happy place, which I assume is a mirror.
(b) There is no national government reporting program to record the ongoing toll of women killed by violence in real time and ensure that these horrifying statistics receive ongoing public attention.
Anthony Albanese to Scott Morrison:
(c) On average, one woman is murdered every week by her current or former partner.
Morrison:
(d) According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics Personal Safety Survey 2016:
Scott Morrison is taking a dixer on the differences between a plan and a goal.
And:
Or something.
(The motion continued, you can find it here).
He doesn’t seem to be mentioning the plan for a surplus, which was ticked off as a goal achieved ahead of time, but now looks like it is going back in the aspiration column.
The baboons live on.
However his baby making abilities, do not.
And the hearing ends.
It will resume tomorrow, where the department of health and Kate Palmer, the former chief executive of Sport Australia, will appear.
Sports Australia’s Luke McCann tells Katy Gallagher he met with the minister’s office and the department of health ahead of today’s appearance, where the Anao report was discussed.
He says it was a general discussion.
Sport Australia witnesses have said in the third and final round of the community sport infrastructure grant program, it recommended 225 projects on 3 April, the minister approved 228, but there were only 61 projects in common.
This explains why the Australian National Audit Office found a massive discrepancy, with 73% of projects funded by the minister but not recommended by Sport Australia.
There’s also more detail on timing. The final list went to the prime minister’s office on 10 April.
On 11 April, Sport Australia received a signed brief from Bridget McKenzie’s office, signed and dated 4th April.
Labor is trying to establish:
Why there were lots of changes at the last minute
Whether the minister waited for input from the prime minister
Why the minister dated the approval 4 April, if it was only provided to Sport Australia at 8:46am 11 April, 17 minutes after the government entered caretaker mode.
Ian Thorpe has joined the campaign against the religious discrimination bill. Thorpe says his preference is the bill be scrapped, to ensure protections for LGBTI people are maintained.
The federation chamber was shut down for “disorderly behaviour” – which was Labor moving to shut down government MPs from speaking.
At least according to the deputy speaker, Trent Zimmerman:
Ed Husic, who may now be able to call himself a regional MP, given that North Sydney has received a grant from a regional fund (with the justification from the mayor being, well, the pool is used by regional people) managed to bring some Husic humour to the situation in the chamber this morning:
Leftwing warrior Peter Dutton (leftwing is all things, according to the home affairs minister, who once said annoying “dirty lefties” was “too easy”, has bolstered his leftwing credentials by backing a change to the national anthem.
Cathy Freeman has backed changing “we are young and free” to “we are one and free”, given that Australia’s Indigenous people represent one of the oldest cultures in the world.
