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Coronavirus Australia live news: Anthony Albanese unveils Labor childcare and energy plans in budget 2020 reply speech
Coronavirus Australia live news: Anthony Albanese unveils Labor childcare and energy plans in budget 2020 reply speech
(32 minutes later)
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Anthony Albanese:
But the Senate is sitting tomorrow.
Anthony Albanese:
The Parenthood likes the speech (they advocate for parents):
Anthony Albanese:
“Putting women at the heart of Labor’s plan to kickstart the economy and get Australians back to work is compelling politics and policy because of the adverse implications women have suffered out of COVID-19,” Executive Director Georgie Dent said.“Addressing the economic reality women in Australia are facing is desperately needed.”
Anthony Albanese has begun his speech:
And the Opposition Leader appears to understand that by putting women at the centre of his reply and key policy pledge.
Meanwhile ...
‘This is not welfare. This is structural reform,’ Albanese said of Labor’s $6 billion Working Family Childcare Boost plan. The child plan outlined in Labor’s Federal Budget response tonight will:
The bells are ringing for the resumption of the parliament sitting.
end the $10,560 child care subsidy cap which often sees women losing money from additional days worked;
Just re-reading through previous transcripts from this morning when I was off, and I am still caught on this exchange between Scott Morrison and Sydney radio 2GB host Ben Fordham:
lift the maximum child care subsidy rate to 90 per cent; and
Fordham: Quick one. I know you don’t often get asked about bikinis, and probably for good reason, but we shared this story yesterday, that’s now on the front page of the paper today, about a girl called Christy who was in an apartment block swimming pool that she lives in and she’s having a swim. A security guard said no, sorry, you can’t go wearing that kind of swimwear. Here was a normal bikini. Now, are we going to head back to the days of the 1950s where inspectors are walking around with measuring tapes? Should Aussie women be allowed to wear what they want within reason when they’re having a swim?
increase child care subsidy rates and taper them for every family earning less than $530,000.
Morrison:
Longer term, Albanese said if he’s PM he will make affordable, high quality early education universal.
*Laughs nervously in patriarchy.
Murph’s story on the budget-in-reply is up:
The image of Jean Shrimpton causing Australia-wide outrage by wearing a miniskirt to the Melbourne Cup is one of the most famous photos of the modern era. Women literally used to have their swimsuits and hems measured. I had a “fingertips” rule at school, where my skirt had to be longer than where the tips of my fingers ended, with my hands down my sides, and had to fight – literally campaign and protest – to change school policy and allow girls to wear the same tracksuit pants the boys were allowed in winter (we were meant to wear stockings under our skirts), and shorts instead of netball skirts for sports. And I went to a STATE school.
Dave Sharma has responded – he argues yes to trains, but thinks they should only be built in Australia if there is some sort of advantage.
Meanwhile, my mentions and emails after any TV appearance usually carry some policing about my boobs, or my hair, or my outfit, or some combination of the three. But sure – women have always been cool to wear whatever.
Anthony Albanese is now off to the ABC studio for his 7.30 interview.
“The only reason to have a border is health grounds,” says Scott Morrison.
The House is adjourned.
Obviously he is talking about state borders.
He did say pandemic.
Scott Morrison says Western Australia has been able to deliver a surplus in its state budget because of the GST deal his government gave it, as well as “other elements” like iron ore prices.
Climate change featured once in Josh Frydenberg’s reply.
Scott Morrison is speaking to Perth radio 6PR in the next couple of minutes.
The Labor leader is now bringing it all home:
It is still just past 4pm there.
Creating jobs for today – and training our people for tomorrow.
OK – it is an half an hour until Anthony Albanese’s budget-in-reply speech.
Making quality child care a right for all, not a luxury for some.
You can watch it on ABC 24, or on the parliament website.
Rebuilding our manufacturing sector.
We will also be covering it off here.
And powering our recovery with clean energy
And yes, the official press release will be released when the university bill passes the Reps (it was altered slightly so bounces back there). But given the numbers in the House, there is as much chance of this not passing as there is of me not eating the last Haigh’s coconut square (diddly-squat).
Labor recommits to a national integrity commission, and then Anthony Albanese moves on to bushfire recovery:
Education minister Dan Tehan has responded to the passing of the university bill, not with a press release, but a quick statement:
Murph tells me Greg Hunt yelled out “false” when Albanese said the line about pandemic preparation – and was very quickly shut down by a look from Scott Morrison.
Also ticking away in this building:
WA’s budget assumes its border won’t open until June next year. At least.
I mean, is anyone making cuts at the moment?
We can’t have old-school thinking for new problems. The country is headed towards a trillion dollars’ worth of debt if everything goes RIGHT (which is how much wealth Amazon boss Jeff Bezos is on track to earn by 2026).
It is now social-media official:
In my experience, most people actually want to see their kids. And there are penalties which can be put in place to monitor that sort of thing.
