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| Liberals nominate Tony Smith as new Speaker as parliament resumes – politics live | |
| (35 minutes later) | |
| 10.07am AEST01:07 | |
| He does talk lovingly of both Pam and his wife. | |
| This is Lucy Wickes, who is seconding Tony Smith’s nomination. A moment of mildly stunned silence, then much laughter. | |
| Lucy Wickes: | |
| If there was going to be a clanger, Mr Clerk, it would be that! | |
| (Just Pam. Pam is Tony Smith’s wife. Not Pam and Mrs Smith. As we all were.) | |
| 10.04am AEST01:04 | |
| We are hearing about soon-to-be-Speaker Smith’s penchant for cars with big engines, from the member for Deakin. He likes Holdens. Ones that go vroooooom. | |
| 10.02am AEST01:02 | |
| MPs have gathered now in the House of Representatives chamber. Bronwyn Bishop’s resignation has been accepted, says the clerk. Is there a nomination? | |
| Ah yes, there is. Tony Smith. | |
| 9.58am AEST00:58 | |
| One kiss and then I must fly. | |
| Tony Abbott shows public support for Bronwyn Bishop as he leaves the Liberal Party meeting #auspol http://t.co/9ZzFn7vEYP | |
| 9.55am AEST00:55 | |
| Smith will be doing a short sprint down the corridor to his new digs before being dragged to the chair as part of the formalities in the House kicking off in about five minutes. | |
| 9.49am AEST00:49 | |
| Tony Smith confirms he will not attend party room meetings. | |
| The procession out of the party room includes the prime minister, walking next to the former Speaker, Bronwyn Bishop. Abbott pauses in front of the assembled media to give Bishop a kiss on the cheek. | |
| Updated at 10.03am AEST | |
| 9.47am AEST00:47 | |
| The ballot included four nominees: Ross Vasta, Andrew Southcott, Tony Smith and Russell Broadbent. | |
| Tony Smith prevailed in the exhaustive ballot 51-22. | |
| Smith is speaking briefly to reporters. | |
| I look forward to what is an important and difficult job that I will do to the best of my ability. | |
| 9.42am AEST00:42 | |
| Tony Smith new Speaker | |
| The Liberal party has chosen Victorian Liberal Tony Smith as the new Speaker. | |
| Updated at 9.50am AEST | |
| 9.41am AEST00:41 | |
| Cue outrage. Live TV coverage has switched from covering an empty corridor to microphone rage. | |
| Parliamentary security have turned the 2GB and isentia microphones sideways to show no branding. Remember this? pic.twitter.com/naoyOYzOSQ | |
| 9.38am AEST00:38 | |
| #StopTheMicrophones | |
| Security guards downstairs clearly don’t have enough to do. There’s apparently been a new ban on microphone advertising. | |
| My microphone has been banned from the #Speakervote presser. Have been told it constitutes 'advertising' @2GBNews @2GB873 | |
| 9.31am AEST00:31 | 9.31am AEST00:31 |
| While we all watch the empty corridor, the Liberal party pollster Mark Textor is supplying some advice to parliamentarians on same-sex marriage. | While we all watch the empty corridor, the Liberal party pollster Mark Textor is supplying some advice to parliamentarians on same-sex marriage. |
| Get on with it. | Get on with it. |
| Good going. Smart politics to deal with this with an expeditious YES. https://t.co/xJfRs0tDLQ | Good going. Smart politics to deal with this with an expeditious YES. https://t.co/xJfRs0tDLQ |
| Unfortunately Liberals can’t read it, because phones have apparently been handed in for this voting process. | Unfortunately Liberals can’t read it, because phones have apparently been handed in for this voting process. |
| Updated at 9.32am AEST | Updated at 9.32am AEST |
| 9.21am AEST00:21 | 9.21am AEST00:21 |
| Hello. Is it me you’re looking for? | Hello. Is it me you’re looking for? |
| The artist formerly known as Madam Speaker makes her way to cast a vote for her successor. | The artist formerly known as Madam Speaker makes her way to cast a vote for her successor. |
| 9.12am AEST00:12 | 9.12am AEST00:12 |
| The vote for the new Speaker is under way now. I’m not going to get into frontrunners or predictions because history shows predictions can be wrong in these votes. It’s pointless speculating and in any case, we’ll know very shortly. | The vote for the new Speaker is under way now. I’m not going to get into frontrunners or predictions because history shows predictions can be wrong in these votes. It’s pointless speculating and in any case, we’ll know very shortly. |
| It will be interesting to see whether Labor allows the new Speaker to take the chair smoothly or whether there will be some procedural fun and games when the action switches to the chamber at 10am. | It will be interesting to see whether Labor allows the new Speaker to take the chair smoothly or whether there will be some procedural fun and games when the action switches to the chamber at 10am. |
| Updated at 9.15am AEST | Updated at 9.15am AEST |
| 9.09am AEST00:09 | 9.09am AEST00:09 |
| Reporters asked Russell Broadbent on the way into parliament this morning whether he would stop attending party room meetings if he was elected Speaker. | Reporters asked Russell Broadbent on the way into parliament this morning whether he would stop attending party room meetings if he was elected Speaker. |
| Q: You will sit outside of party room? | Q: You will sit outside of party room? |
| Russell Broadbent: | Russell Broadbent: |
| No, I will be sitting in the party room. I have a responsibility to my electorate and I need to know what’s going on in that party room when my colleagues speak. | No, I will be sitting in the party room. I have a responsibility to my electorate and I need to know what’s going on in that party room when my colleagues speak. |
| I’m a regional representative and my electorate is very important to me. | I’m a regional representative and my electorate is very important to me. |
| Updated at 9.14am AEST | Updated at 9.14am AEST |
| 9.00am AEST00:00 | 9.00am AEST00:00 |
| Liberal MPs are making their way to the party room downstairs for the Speaker vote. | Liberal MPs are making their way to the party room downstairs for the Speaker vote. |
| Corridor to the Government party room. #speakervote @abcnews pic.twitter.com/gpzTfJ3MsK | Corridor to the Government party room. #speakervote @abcnews pic.twitter.com/gpzTfJ3MsK |
| The only candidate to front publicly this morning was Russell Broadbent, the Victorian Liberal MP, who spoke to reporters at the doors of the House of Representatives. | The only candidate to front publicly this morning was Russell Broadbent, the Victorian Liberal MP, who spoke to reporters at the doors of the House of Representatives. |
| Updated at 9.01am AEST | Updated at 9.01am AEST |
| 8.51am AEST23:51 | 8.51am AEST23:51 |
| Welcome back Clive, who reports more aspirational action out at the Canberra airport. | Welcome back Clive, who reports more aspirational action out at the Canberra airport. |
| Arrived at Canberra, @rupertmurdoch plane already here. Rupert or representative conducting interviews for speaker? #auspol | Arrived at Canberra, @rupertmurdoch plane already here. Rupert or representative conducting interviews for speaker? #auspol |
| Good morning Rupert? | Good morning Rupert? |
| Updated at 9.00am AEST | Updated at 9.00am AEST |
| 8.48am AEST23:48 | 8.48am AEST23:48 |
| So I’ve referenced the new Speaker, new climate targets – now to same-sex marriage. As MPs arrived at Canberra airport last night, they were greeted by a hashtag. | So I’ve referenced the new Speaker, new climate targets – now to same-sex marriage. As MPs arrived at Canberra airport last night, they were greeted by a hashtag. |
| Forgetting entirely that politics is meant to crush our souls and drive us to small acts of theatrical insurrection – like that chap I heard on the radio this morning who is attempting to get our parliamentarians to crowdfund his family holiday to Uluru – the owners of Canberra airport thought it was time to get aspirational. | Forgetting entirely that politics is meant to crush our souls and drive us to small acts of theatrical insurrection – like that chap I heard on the radio this morning who is attempting to get our parliamentarians to crowdfund his family holiday to Uluru – the owners of Canberra airport thought it was time to get aspirational. |
| Yes we can. Question is can the prime minister? Can Tony Abbott give his Coalition colleagues a conscience vote on the cross-party bill to legalise same-sex marriage? Even if he does, are there enough votes in the Australian parliament to deliver long overdue change? | Yes we can. Question is can the prime minister? Can Tony Abbott give his Coalition colleagues a conscience vote on the cross-party bill to legalise same-sex marriage? Even if he does, are there enough votes in the Australian parliament to deliver long overdue change? |
| Updated at 8.59am AEST | Updated at 8.59am AEST |
| 8.31am AEST23:31 | 8.31am AEST23:31 |
| They’ve been caught red-handed with their hands on the income ... | They’ve been caught red-handed with their hands on the income ... |
| This is the environment minister, Greg Hunt, who is speaking to the ABC as we go live this morning. This rhetorical mangle is about Labor and carbon pricing. While we were parted over the winter recess, the ALP locked in behind emissions trading, which according to the man who once advised John Howard to adopt emissions trading (that would be Greg Hunt) is an act of unspeakable public policy wickedness. Don’t try and make sense of that story arc, it’s impossible. | This is the environment minister, Greg Hunt, who is speaking to the ABC as we go live this morning. This rhetorical mangle is about Labor and carbon pricing. While we were parted over the winter recess, the ALP locked in behind emissions trading, which according to the man who once advised John Howard to adopt emissions trading (that would be Greg Hunt) is an act of unspeakable public policy wickedness. Don’t try and make sense of that story arc, it’s impossible. |
| The focal point of the climate policy week will not be Labor and the unspeakable wickedness of pursuing a market mechanism to help lower carbon pollution – but the government. Cabinet will today decide on Australia’s post-2020 emissions reductions targets for the UN-led climate talks in Paris later this year. Those targets will go to the Coalition party room tomorrow. | The focal point of the climate policy week will not be Labor and the unspeakable wickedness of pursuing a market mechanism to help lower carbon pollution – but the government. Cabinet will today decide on Australia’s post-2020 emissions reductions targets for the UN-led climate talks in Paris later this year. Those targets will go to the Coalition party room tomorrow. |
| Hunt spent the ABC interview evading questions about the targets. | Hunt spent the ABC interview evading questions about the targets. |
| Our policy couldn’t be clearer. | Our policy couldn’t be clearer. |
| Q: We don’t know what it is. | Q: We don’t know what it is. |
| Yes, one of those interviews. In fairness to Hunt, unveiling the decision ahead of the actual decision is a somewhat risky business best left to prime minister’s offices. Yes, that was irony. Anyway, we won’t have to wait too long for the details. | Yes, one of those interviews. In fairness to Hunt, unveiling the decision ahead of the actual decision is a somewhat risky business best left to prime minister’s offices. Yes, that was irony. Anyway, we won’t have to wait too long for the details. |
| In the interim we can depress ourselves by reading this brilliant piece from Rolling Stone which concludes we are already in deep deep trouble climate change-wise. Or we can read my colleague Lenore Taylor’s news story this morning about polling indicating Australians are worried the Abbott government is underestimating the importance of climate change. At the same time, Lenore notes, almost half those surveyed (47%) think Labor’s carbon policies will “just increase electricity prices and not do much about pollution”. | In the interim we can depress ourselves by reading this brilliant piece from Rolling Stone which concludes we are already in deep deep trouble climate change-wise. Or we can read my colleague Lenore Taylor’s news story this morning about polling indicating Australians are worried the Abbott government is underestimating the importance of climate change. At the same time, Lenore notes, almost half those surveyed (47%) think Labor’s carbon policies will “just increase electricity prices and not do much about pollution”. |
| Updated at 8.45am AEST | Updated at 8.45am AEST |
| 8.06am AEST23:06 | 8.06am AEST23:06 |
| Welcome back | Welcome back |
| Good morning everyone and welcome back to Canberra where our post-Bronwyn forecast is frost-free, clear skies, with gusts of the unexpected. | Good morning everyone and welcome back to Canberra where our post-Bronwyn forecast is frost-free, clear skies, with gusts of the unexpected. |
| Parliamentarians are wandering back to the building via their approved and crosschecked taxpayer-funded forms of transport after the winter break (such as it was) to select a new Speaker. Madam Speaker of course vacated her post a week or so ago over a small and barely remarked upon controversy that started with a party fundraiser and a helicopter. | Parliamentarians are wandering back to the building via their approved and crosschecked taxpayer-funded forms of transport after the winter break (such as it was) to select a new Speaker. Madam Speaker of course vacated her post a week or so ago over a small and barely remarked upon controversy that started with a party fundraiser and a helicopter. |
| Liberals will this morning elect a replacement for Bishop. Ahead of that vote, given he’s not in a position to determine the outcome for a variety of reasons, the prime minister Tony Abbott has maintained a posture of neutrality. | Liberals will this morning elect a replacement for Bishop. Ahead of that vote, given he’s not in a position to determine the outcome for a variety of reasons, the prime minister Tony Abbott has maintained a posture of neutrality. |
| My colleague Daniel Hurst reports this morning that the three leading contenders – Tony Smith, Russell Broadbent and Andrew Southcott – have been lobbying their colleagues about their suitability for the role based on their ability to be a “stable, calming influence on the parliament”. #Stable #Calm(ing) We’ll find out who prevails in the great calm-off very shortly. The Liberal party room meets at 9am and the parliament will take care of the formalities at 10am, and in accordance with our sad and strange habit, we’ll cover all that live. | My colleague Daniel Hurst reports this morning that the three leading contenders – Tony Smith, Russell Broadbent and Andrew Southcott – have been lobbying their colleagues about their suitability for the role based on their ability to be a “stable, calming influence on the parliament”. #Stable #Calm(ing) We’ll find out who prevails in the great calm-off very shortly. The Liberal party room meets at 9am and the parliament will take care of the formalities at 10am, and in accordance with our sad and strange habit, we’ll cover all that live. |
| This will be a busy parliamentary fortnight and there’s loads to get across, but first we need to wish the prime minister a happy anniversary. Yesterday, Sunday, marked six months since the February leadership spill and Abbott’s declaration that good government starts today. Possibly the prime minister meant today plus six months because the evidence of good government has been slim at best. | This will be a busy parliamentary fortnight and there’s loads to get across, but first we need to wish the prime minister a happy anniversary. Yesterday, Sunday, marked six months since the February leadership spill and Abbott’s declaration that good government starts today. Possibly the prime minister meant today plus six months because the evidence of good government has been slim at best. |
| Good government best begin soon because there’s yet another bad opinion poll this morning. Newspoll has Labor extending its two-party-preferred lead over the Coalition to 54-46. This is the government’s worst result since March. Government MPs can’t ignore the trend, the trend is blindingly obvious, but less obvious is what will be done to counter it. | Good government best begin soon because there’s yet another bad opinion poll this morning. Newspoll has Labor extending its two-party-preferred lead over the Coalition to 54-46. This is the government’s worst result since March. Government MPs can’t ignore the trend, the trend is blindingly obvious, but less obvious is what will be done to counter it. |
| Let’s crack on into today without further ado. The Politics Live comments thread is wide open for your business and you can find Mikearoo and I on the twits in our normal locations – @murpharoo and @mpbowers | Let’s crack on into today without further ado. The Politics Live comments thread is wide open for your business and you can find Mikearoo and I on the twits in our normal locations – @murpharoo and @mpbowers |
| Updated at 8.30am AEST | Updated at 8.30am AEST |