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| Eric Abetz grills Gillian Triggs about Bob Brown Foundation fundraiser – politics live | Eric Abetz grills Gillian Triggs about Bob Brown Foundation fundraiser – politics live |
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| George Brandis is now stepping estimates through the process to appoint the next president of the Human Rights Committee when Gillian Triggs steps down. | |
| The position was advertised on 22 and 29 April. Applications closed on 5 May. | |
| The selection panel will provide a short list of recommended candidates to the government. | |
| Brandis will take a name to cabinet. It is the government’s choice, he agrees. | |
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| Oops. Further to Ian Macdonald’s attempt to chuck out Greens senator Nick McKim. | |
| McDonald: I've been told by the clerk I do not have the power to evict anyone or prevent anyone asking questions. #estimates #auspol | |
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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. | 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. | 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? | 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. | 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. | 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 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 | McKim: "You are a tyrant and a dictator, I dissent from your ruling. I'm not going anywhere" #estimates #auspol |
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| Eric Abetz is grilling Australian Human Rights Commission president, Gillian Triggs, about travel to speak at a Bob Brown Foundation fundraiser. | 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. | 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. | Abetz challenges her on whether that is transparent. |
| She replied: | 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.” | 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”. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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”? | 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. | 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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