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| Gillian Triggs says regression causing attacks on women in public positions – politics live | |
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| Special minister of state Scott Ryan has waived former senator Bob Day's debts | |
| Ryan has waived Day’s debts because he made a special application to consider his financial circumstances. | |
| Former One Nation Rod Culleton, who was declared bankrupt last year but who maintains he is in control of his assets, has not made such an application. | |
| But Ryan says in a statement to estimates, that the same avenue is open to Culleton. | |
| Both Ryan and Culleton were ruled ineligible to be senators by the high court. | |
| Both had received letters from the finance department seeking to recover debts owed to the commonwealth for salaries, staff entitlements and allowances. | |
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| The moment when Gillian Triggs is asked whether it is her last estimates appearance | |
| A picture paints a thousand words. | |
| LNP senator Ian Macdonald, one of her chief inquisitors, wished her well in the future. | |
| Graciously, Gillian Triggs thanks him. | |
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| Gillian Triggs: serious regression causing attacks on women in public positions | |
| Paul Karp | |
| In her final estimates, Australian Human Rights Commission president, Gillian Triggs has given an extended meditation on attacks against women in public life. | |
| I’ve had a legal career now for 50 years, for most of those 50 years I’ve never felt in any way hampered by being a woman. I’ve ridden a crest of a wave of opportunity in education and work, and I’ve always benefited [from opportunity]. | |
| But it’s fair to say, as I did at Melbourne town hall, that sadly there has been clear evidence that women in senior positions and women in the media are being attacked, it’s very sad for Australian democracy and for enlightened liberal debate in this country.” | |
| Triggs said she had “attracted a great deal of attention” as a function of her role, which she described as an honour that came with “a certain level of controversy”. | |
| Derryn Hinch asked if she was being a bit hyperbolic, like Donald Trump when he complained he was the most persecuted US president in history. | |
| Triggs replied: | |
| I think it’s extraordinary to be referred to in the same sentence as Donald Trump, I’m not sure it’s a very flattering association. I don’t think it is over the top. | |
| Triggs said she would do more research on the topic but “evidence is mounting, of growing attacks on women in public positions” including heads of companies and the public service. | |
| I say this with great sorrow. I grew up and went to university in the 1960s. The last few years have seen a serious regression. | |
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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. | 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 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. | 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. | 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. | 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 | 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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| Paul Karp | Paul Karp |
| 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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