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| Labor says Tony Abbott has 'shirtfronted' PM over economy – question time live | |
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| 4.02am GMT | |
| 04:02 | |
| I’ve just been back to a research paper from Ben Phillips at the ANU, who says in 2012-13, 1.2m people had negatively geared properties. Not quite two-thirds, 1.2m. | |
| 4.00am GMT | |
| 04:00 | |
| Christian Porter: | |
| What we have here, Mr Speaker, is the idea, the idea that you can take the two thirds of Australians who have been receiving a tax benefit, make them pay more tax on housing, two thirds of Australians who were negative gearing, who earn under $80,000, make them pay more tax. | |
| (Two thirds sounds rather high to me.) | |
| 3.53am GMT | |
| 03:53 | |
| Q: What are the excesses in negative gearing? | |
| Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen, to the prime minister, who throws it to the social services minister. | |
| Labor says, er wut, why would this question go to a minister without portfolio responsibility? Manager of government business Christopher Pyne says one of the delightful things about being a prime minister is you can throw questions wherever you want. Speaker Smith agrees. | |
| Christian Porter moves to the dispatch box. He’d like to speak about housing affordability and rental affordability. And about a tax not being reform. (Which is a mildly brave line of argument, given the government will make some tax changes in due course and, I presume, will characterise that activity as reform.) | |
| 3.44am GMT | |
| 03:44 | |
| Treasurer Scott Morrison: | |
| Mr Speaker, the minute you put the key in the door, it becomes an old property and you can’t sell it to one out of the three people who would have previously bought it. Under their [Labor’s] policy, it’s like driving a new car off the lot, Mr Speaker. They just have not thought it through. | |
| (It really isn’t, but, by all means.) | |
| 3.39am GMT | |
| 03:39 | |
| A Dixer allowing the foreign minister to crow about Fury Road winning the technical Oscars yesterday. The Dixer was asked by Fiona Scott, the member for Lindsay. | |
| Julie Bishop: | |
| I know that the Member for Lindsay will be delighted with the success of this film for part of the post apocalyptic film was actually done in Lindsay in a sand mine – in a sand mine in Penrith Lakes. | |
| 3.34am GMT | |
| 03:34 | |
| A Dixer for the agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce to warn about how the tax office will be coming for family farms. | |
| Then Labor asks whether the prime minister is hoping people don’t notice that he will not rule out retrospective changes to negative gearing? | |
| The prime minister responds by talking about the bizarre and inequitable outcomes that will flow from Labor’s policy on negative gearing policy. | |
| 3.30am GMT | |
| 03:30 | |
| 3.29am GMT | 3.29am GMT |
| 03:29 | 03:29 |
| Green Adam Bandt. | Green Adam Bandt. |
| Q: The safe schools program has been stopping bullying around the country and has helped many young people feel that they fit in. Prime minister, is your commitment to socially progressive values so skin deep that you will put young people’s welfare at risk and throw a successful anti-bullying campaign under a bus just because the bigots in the conservative brotherhood tell you to? | Q: The safe schools program has been stopping bullying around the country and has helped many young people feel that they fit in. Prime minister, is your commitment to socially progressive values so skin deep that you will put young people’s welfare at risk and throw a successful anti-bullying campaign under a bus just because the bigots in the conservative brotherhood tell you to? |
| Bandt is told to withdraw the unparliamentary language. He withdraws. | Bandt is told to withdraw the unparliamentary language. He withdraws. |
| Malcolm Turnbull: | Malcolm Turnbull: |
| Mr Speaker, every student, every child has the right to be safe at school, has the right to be safe at home. We have no tolerance for bullying of any kind. Let’s be quite clear about that. Bullying, whether it is in the classroom, whether it is on the bus, whether it is on the Internet, wherever it occurs, it is utterly unacceptable. | Mr Speaker, every student, every child has the right to be safe at school, has the right to be safe at home. We have no tolerance for bullying of any kind. Let’s be quite clear about that. Bullying, whether it is in the classroom, whether it is on the bus, whether it is on the Internet, wherever it occurs, it is utterly unacceptable. |
| And it is unacceptable on whatever basis that bullying occurs, whether it is on the basis of a child’s sexual orientation, their perception of their sexuality, of their race, their gender, their religion, their appearance. | And it is unacceptable on whatever basis that bullying occurs, whether it is on the basis of a child’s sexual orientation, their perception of their sexuality, of their race, their gender, their religion, their appearance. |
| Turnbull says there have been complaints about safe schools. The government is conducting an independent review. The government will make the review public, judge the merits of the complaints. | Turnbull says there have been complaints about safe schools. The government is conducting an independent review. The government will make the review public, judge the merits of the complaints. |
| We will be able to judge the merit of the criticisms and what, if any, steps should be taken consequent on the review. That is taking children’s rights seriously, it’s taking bullying seriously, it’s standing up for children. | We will be able to judge the merit of the criticisms and what, if any, steps should be taken consequent on the review. That is taking children’s rights seriously, it’s taking bullying seriously, it’s standing up for children. |
| 3.22am GMT | 3.22am GMT |
| 03:22 | 03:22 |
| Labor is persisting with ‘will the prime minister rule out retrospective changes to negative gearing’ – this time quoting George Brandis in the Senate yesterday, who said: “It has always been the position of Coalition governments to have an in principle opposition to retrospectivity.” | Labor is persisting with ‘will the prime minister rule out retrospective changes to negative gearing’ – this time quoting George Brandis in the Senate yesterday, who said: “It has always been the position of Coalition governments to have an in principle opposition to retrospectivity.” |
| The prime minister says, look, we are having a debate about tax policy. | The prime minister says, look, we are having a debate about tax policy. |
| The government is considering these matters and considering them very carefully. We are taking the best advice and analysing the impacts of various proposed changes with great care and diligence. | The government is considering these matters and considering them very carefully. We are taking the best advice and analysing the impacts of various proposed changes with great care and diligence. |
| And by the way, your policy sucks, Labor. | And by the way, your policy sucks, Labor. |
| 3.14am GMT | 3.14am GMT |
| 03:14 | 03:14 |
| Bill Shorten is back. | Bill Shorten is back. |
| Q: Today the former prime minister has shirt fronted the current prime minister over his lack of economic leadership. Will the current prime minister take up the former PM’s challenge and rule out retrospective changes to negative gearing. | Q: Today the former prime minister has shirt fronted the current prime minister over his lack of economic leadership. Will the current prime minister take up the former PM’s challenge and rule out retrospective changes to negative gearing. |
| This one is waved to the treasurer, Scott Morrison, who is digging out old quotes, before Labor resolved to adjust negative gearing, back when the policy was “not on our radar” according to Bill Shorten. | This one is waved to the treasurer, Scott Morrison, who is digging out old quotes, before Labor resolved to adjust negative gearing, back when the policy was “not on our radar” according to Bill Shorten. |
| Scott Morrison: | Scott Morrison: |
| It would seem, of course, the leader of the opposition is on a need to know basis when it comes to their policy. | It would seem, of course, the leader of the opposition is on a need to know basis when it comes to their policy. |
| 3.10am GMT | 3.10am GMT |
| 03:10 | 03:10 |
| On a roll here now in question time. The prime minister is currently explaining why there has never been a more exciting time deregulate media ownership. | On a roll here now in question time. The prime minister is currently explaining why there has never been a more exciting time deregulate media ownership. |
| Mr Speaker, governments have kicked the reform of these media ownership rules into the long grass for so long that they have formed part of the rich subsoil of Australian political inertia – and we are taking them out. | Mr Speaker, governments have kicked the reform of these media ownership rules into the long grass for so long that they have formed part of the rich subsoil of Australian political inertia – and we are taking them out. |
| 3.07am GMT | 3.07am GMT |
| 03:07 | 03:07 |
| Malcolm Turnbull. | Malcolm Turnbull. |
| We know what those levers are and we are pulling them. | We know what those levers are and we are pulling them. |
| 3.05am GMT | 3.05am GMT |
| 03:05 | 03:05 |
| Question time | Question time |
| It being 2pm. The Labor leader is opening today on the nauseating exchange of compliments between Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull in the party room today. | It being 2pm. The Labor leader is opening today on the nauseating exchange of compliments between Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull in the party room today. |
| Q: Today in the Coalition party room the former prime minister challenged the current prime minister over his lack of economic leadership. Will the PM finally show some leadership and rule out retrospective changes to negative gearing? | Q: Today in the Coalition party room the former prime minister challenged the current prime minister over his lack of economic leadership. Will the PM finally show some leadership and rule out retrospective changes to negative gearing? |
| The prime minister thanks Shorten for allowing him to showcase the depth of experience on this side of the House. We are back in exciting times, and lever pulling, and the wanton destruction of the value of the family home. | The prime minister thanks Shorten for allowing him to showcase the depth of experience on this side of the House. We are back in exciting times, and lever pulling, and the wanton destruction of the value of the family home. |