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Malcolm Turnbull dimisses Bill Shorten as 'Captain of Fantasy' – politics live
Eric Abetz grills Gillian Triggs about Bob Brown Foundation fundraiser – politics live
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Due to the Triggs posts, I missed the detail on a Tanya Plibersek question but she essentially asked how is it fair that the King’s School gets a larger increase than some public schools.
Turnbull says most schools receive an increases including schools in her electorate which receive an extra $44m over the next decade.
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Chris Bowen to Turnbull: the bank levy was designed to bring the budget back into balance. Why is the prime minister placing the AAA rating further at risk with his government’s incompetence?
Turnbull says the the revenue that will be raised by the major bank levy would ensure the government brings the budget back into surplus in 2020/21 and will retain the AAA rating.
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Greens senator Nick McKim to estimates chair, LNP senator Ian Macdonald.
McKim: "you can't make me leave mate, what are you going to do about it?". McDonald won't give him the call rest of #estimates #auspol
McKim: "You are a tyrant and a dictator, I dissent from your ruling. I'm not going anywhere" #estimates #auspol
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Paul Karp
Eric Abetz is grilling Australian Human Rights Commission president, Gillian Triggs, about travel to speak at a Bob Brown Foundation fundraiser.
Triggs replied that the AHRC keeps a register of gifts but it does not extend to declaration of sponsored travel. Triggs said she and the other commissioners speak at events around Australia but ask organisations that invite them to meet the costs of travel.
Abetz challenges her on whether that is transparent.
She replied:
We don’t put them on our website, but if anyone asked about it we would be totally transparent. Details of any speeches or launches we attend ... are totally available for anyone who cares to ask about it.”
Triggs said that “due to our difficult financial situation ... we cannot afford to pay for these from the commission’s budget”.
Abetz is now looking at the content of the speech and a line, taken out of context, that “sadly you can say what you like around the kitchen table at home” and whether Triggs meant that the AHRC would seek to control what is said in people’s homes.
Triggs said the line was simply demonstrating that racist attitudes that emerge in the public arena are often formed in the home, not an attempt by the AHRC to control what was said in people’s home. “I’m afraid that’s an inaccurate observation”, she says, when Abetz characterises it, essentially as an attempt to police thought crime.
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Chris Bowen to Scott Morrison: there is a $2bn back hole in the budget from the bank tax. Will the treasurer advise the House how he intends to fill it or will he simply add it to the debt in the budget papers.
Morrison does not answer the question but describes Bowen as the banks’ parrot.
The shadow treasurer has become the banks’ parrot, squawking on cue, saying, “Who is a pretty boy then”?
He has become the banks’ parrot and he puffs up and plumes himself on every occasion, coming to the dispatch box in his big tough voice but the truth is he hasn’t read the budget papers.
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There is a government question on the Adani mine to deputy PM Barnaby Joyce, to allow him to attack Labor as the party that “has given up on labourers in the pursuit of vegan burgers and they have given up at the railway hotel, they have lost their soul”.
There is a government question on the Adani mine to deputy PM Barnaby Joyce, to allow him to attack Labor as the party that “has given up on labourers in the pursuit of vegan burgers and they have given up at the railway hotel, they have lost their soul”.
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Turnbull to Shorten: Labor’s plan to retain the Budget repair levy and protect low-and middle-income earners from a tax increase is a fair and more responsible way to raise more money. Does the Prime Minister object because Labor’s fairer and better plan raises $4.5bn more revenue than his plan or is it because under Labor’s plan, millionaires will not get a tax cut on 1 July?
Turnbull to Shorten: Labor’s plan to retain the budget repair levy and protect low-and middle-income earners from a tax increase is a fair and more responsible way to raise more money. Does the prime minister object because Labor’s fairer and better plan raises $4.5bn more revenue than his plan or is it because under Labor’s plan, millionaires will not get a tax cut on 1 July?
Turnbull says only a few years ago, Shorten backed the Medicare levy rise for the NDIS for the “great national enterprise”.
Turnbull says only a few years ago, Shorten backed the Medicare levy rise for the NDIS for the “great national enterprise”.
Labor knows this is just but their leader, trapped in his own political bind of constantly seeking one cynical tactical advantage after another is not going to look in the eyes of the people to whom he has promised so much and say, “We will pay for it”.
Labor knows this is just but their leader, trapped in his own political bind of constantly seeking one cynical tactical advantage after another is not going to look in the eyes of the people to whom he has promised so much and say, “We will pay for it”.
Well, Mr Speaker, we will. And the parliament will and Labor will be shown up for a makers of empty promises, frauds and fakes, betraying the very people they promised to protect.
Well, Mr Speaker, we will. And the parliament will and Labor will be shown up for a makers of empty promises, frauds and fakes, betraying the very people they promised to protect.
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Plibersek to Turnbull: Does he agree with the Catholic Education Commission, “Hundreds of Catholic schools will be allocated less Commonwealth funding next year, dozens of schools will be hit with a funding cut of 50% or more next year and almost 200 schools will be allocated less funding in 2027 than this year”. This is the department’s own figure, they cannot be disputed or manipulated.
Turnbull says funding will rise from $17bn to over $30bn in 2027.
He says 98% of Catholic students will see growth of more than 3.3% a year from 2017 to 2027.
That is well above costs and wages growth. Catholic systemic schools will receive a total of $28.3bn in Commonwealth recurrent funding over four years.
He says the Catholic sector has the highest per student Commonwealth funding in every state and territory, “now and into the future”.
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Labor to Turnbull: Prime minister, this week, the member for Gilmore said about the reaction of school principals to the government’s funding, “They have certainty of funding going forward for as far as four years. There is guesstimate there for 10, but no government can absolutely commit to that.” Is the member for Gilmore [Ann Sudmalis] correct? Isn’t the only certainty for schools a $22 billion cut?
Sudmalis sighs as the PM gets up to defend the comments.
Turnbull says Labor didn’t fund years five and six of their Gonski agreements (they were outside the forward estimates).
He repeats the percentage amounts.
Next government question on the NDIS to social services minister Christian Porter.
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We have had two government questions on schools policy and two questions on the Medicare levy rise for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, which would suggest the government considers both of those budget policies are electoral winners. The NDIS is also a chance for government to attack Bill Shorten given part of shadow cabinet’s disquiet over rejecting the rise for those earning under $87,000 a year.
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Shorten to Turnbull: The executive director of the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria, Mr Stephen Elder, has said about the prime minister’s schools policy, “If this is supposed to be a needs-based funding model, why will some of the most most disadvantaged public schools in the country lose money? How is it fair that the prime minister’s $22 billion cut leaves the neediest students worse off, or is the prime minister also going to accuse Catholic educators of being dishonest?
Turnbull reinforces the schools policy – see earlier answers – but declines to suggest whether the campaign in parts of the Catholic sector is dishonest.
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Liberal MP Trent Zimmerman and Derryn Hinch carpet Indonesia for caning gay men
AAP reports:
An openly gay Liberal MP says the “cruel and sickening” caning of two gay men in Aceh has cast a cloud over Australia’s relationship with Indonesia.
Australia should not stand by and ignore the inhumane treatment of the pair who were caned 85 times under sharia law for having consensual sex, Trent Zimmerman told parliament on Tuesday.
He was grateful foreign minister Julie Bishop had raised the issue with her Indonesian counterparts but called on others, including the Muslim community in Australia, to take a stand.
“Our friendship with Indonesia has been strengthened by our perception of a pluralistic, democratic and moderate Islamic nation,” Zimmerman said.
“Sadly, recent events have given us cause to question that understanding.
“Nothing should absolve the Indonesian government of its obligation to ensure all its citizens are afforded the basic human rights it has agreed to uphold through its international commitments.”
Crossbench senator Derryn Hinch has called for Australia to suspend its foreign aid to Indonesia over the matter.
“I believe Australian aid should be suspended to show our disapproval and disgust. I’m disappointed by our government’s silence on this cruelty,” Hinch said.
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Bowers is going all artsy fartsy on the way to QT.
leaves floating on a pond in the senate courtyard #ParliamentHouse @gabriellechan @GuardianAus #politicslive #autumn pic.twitter.com/YfMPPeY9PD
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Labor to Turnbull: Public school principles have travelled to be here in Canberra today. So, how can the prime minister claim his school funding model is sector-blind when Loriston Girls school in Melbourne with fees of primary school up to $27,000 a year gets seven times the funding increase of Anula school in Darwin. How is that fair to kids in public schools like Anula Primary?
Turnbull says historically the federal government funds a greater portion of private schools than public schools.
Over the next 10 years, the idea is to bring all schools up to the school resourcing standard (Gonski formula).
That formula for federal funding is 80% of non-government schools and 20% for public schools. States pick up the rest.
The comparison the honourable member makes is completely inapt, totally inapt.
By 2027 government schools, wherever they are in Australia, will receive 20% of the Schooling Resource Standard from the Commonwealth and they will receive that whether they are in the Northern Territory or Victoria or Tasmania and non-government schools will receive 80% of the Schooling Resource Standard which is adjusted according to the SES formula.
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The next government question is on the schools package to Turnbull.
The PM:
Our school funding model is transparent, it is needs-based, it means that at the same school with the same needs gets the same funding. Isn’t that what needs-based funding is about? Oh! The member for Sydney [Plibersek] says it is not. Right, OK. So well, the member for Sydney is trying to lead us into her parallel universe where needs-based funding does not mean schools with the same needs get the same funding. So, I wonder under Labor’s parallel universe of fakery and fraud who gets more money? Well, I guess it is determined on political grounds.
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The Coalition senators continue to question Gillian Triggs on the QUT 18C matter.
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Gillian Triggs now up at #estimates pic.twitter.com/p10AprFCci
