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| Tony Abbott reworks laws to strip citizenship – politics live | Tony Abbott reworks laws to strip citizenship – politics live |
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| 9.32am AEST00:32 | |
| Sometimes it’s the last place you look. @cpyne was on Twitter declaring federal education policy. | |
| The Australian Government does not and will not support a means test for public education. Full stop. End of story. #auspoI | |
| 9.32am AEST00:32 | |
| ScoMo is talking to 2GB and while it may be the kiss of death, the social services has praised the new Greens leader Richard di Natale as being easier to deal with than his predecessor Christine Milne. | |
| 9.30am AEST00:30 | |
| Sky News is reporting the education minister, Christopher Pyne, has ruled out means-testing in public schools. We are still trying to track down where Pyne delivered his missive. | |
| Patience people. | |
| Thanks to Twitter corros Marie McInerney and Leroy Lynch for the link to the original Centre for Independent Studies report by Jennifer Buckingham which raised the idea of charging wealthy families for public education. | |
| Updated at 9.31am AEST | |
| 9.23am AEST00:23 | |
| For those concerned with details, parliament is due to sit at 10am today. | |
| Elements on the notice paper include the bills: | |
| There is also a report from the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security into a review of the re-listing of Hizballah’s External Security Organisation . | |
| 9.07am AEST00:07 | |
| Caffeine did deliver a brighter PM than the man in the message last night. | |
| 8.59am AEST23:59 | 8.59am AEST23:59 |
| The health minister, Sussan Ley, was on the ABC earlier and was asked about stripping citizenship from dual nationals and whether it would get support from the party room. | |
| They deserve the worst possible ramifications when it comes to breaking that promise with Australian society. | They deserve the worst possible ramifications when it comes to breaking that promise with Australian society. |
| Just to be clear, Ley was speaking there about terror suspects, not the Coalition party room. | Just to be clear, Ley was speaking there about terror suspects, not the Coalition party room. |
| We meet today and then I understand the legislation will be referred to a parliamentary committee on intelligence and security. And again, another layer of scrutiny and the party room itself will thrash out the questions and answers, that individuals may reasonably have about what this legislation means. | |
| The citizenship legislation has not yet been sighted. | The citizenship legislation has not yet been sighted. |
| Updated at 9.02am AEST | |
| 8.47am AEST23:47 | 8.47am AEST23:47 |
| Our gallery colleague Matthew Knott at Fairfax has a scooperoo about some pretty radical fiddling regarding schools. The concepts come from a discussion paper developed within Abbott’s own Prime Minister and Cabinet. Knott reports the paper includes: | Our gallery colleague Matthew Knott at Fairfax has a scooperoo about some pretty radical fiddling regarding schools. The concepts come from a discussion paper developed within Abbott’s own Prime Minister and Cabinet. Knott reports the paper includes: |
| Under the fourth option, the federal government would provide funding for all students “adjusted for student need and the ability of families to make a contribution”. | Under the fourth option, the federal government would provide funding for all students “adjusted for student need and the ability of families to make a contribution”. |
| The first question to Abbott is around this issue, regarding universality of public education – yatteh yatteh – and the PM deadbats it as a states issue. | The first question to Abbott is around this issue, regarding universality of public education – yatteh yatteh – and the PM deadbats it as a states issue. |
| We have no role at all in the running of public schools, public schools are absolutely the business of the state and territory governments, and whether state or territory governments choose to change the way schools are funded in their states and territories is absolutely a matter for them. Obviously there is a federation reform white paper process taking place now. I think it’s good that some of the states and territories at least are thinking creatively about how they can responsibly fund their operations. But any question of how you fund public schools in terms of what contribution parents might be expected to make is absolutely a matter for the states and territories. | We have no role at all in the running of public schools, public schools are absolutely the business of the state and territory governments, and whether state or territory governments choose to change the way schools are funded in their states and territories is absolutely a matter for them. Obviously there is a federation reform white paper process taking place now. I think it’s good that some of the states and territories at least are thinking creatively about how they can responsibly fund their operations. But any question of how you fund public schools in terms of what contribution parents might be expected to make is absolutely a matter for the states and territories. |
| Updated at 8.58am AEST | Updated at 8.58am AEST |
| 8.25am AEST23:25 | 8.25am AEST23:25 |
| This government ... needs more sleep | This government ... needs more sleep |
| Citizenship is the key issue of this last week of parliamentary sitting ‘afore the break. Lenore Taylor has the new development, designed to get around pesky lawyers inside and outside government who insist on peripheral issues like constitutionality. This is Lenore: | Citizenship is the key issue of this last week of parliamentary sitting ‘afore the break. Lenore Taylor has the new development, designed to get around pesky lawyers inside and outside government who insist on peripheral issues like constitutionality. This is Lenore: |
| The government has modified the plan – proposing to amend section 35 of the Citizenship Act which automatically revokes the citizenship an Australian dual citizen who “serves the armed forces of a country at war with Australia” to include those who take up arms with a declared terrorist group. This would not involve ministerial discretion, and if anyone losing their citizenship in this way tried to re-enter Australia or reapply for a passport a court could review all the facts behind the revocation as well as the process by which the decision was made. There is no precedent for making decisions under section 35 because it has never been used. | The government has modified the plan – proposing to amend section 35 of the Citizenship Act which automatically revokes the citizenship an Australian dual citizen who “serves the armed forces of a country at war with Australia” to include those who take up arms with a declared terrorist group. This would not involve ministerial discretion, and if anyone losing their citizenship in this way tried to re-enter Australia or reapply for a passport a court could review all the facts behind the revocation as well as the process by which the decision was made. There is no precedent for making decisions under section 35 because it has never been used. |
| And this is your prime minister this morn: | And this is your prime minister this morn: |
| Obviously we have had legal advice from a number of sources and we are confident that this legislation can minimise constitutional risk. But the main point, and this is the point I want to stress, our message to people who leave Australia to fight for terrorist armies in the Middle East is that we don’t want you back. If you are a dual national, we won’t let you back because the first duty of government is to keep our country safe and the last thing any of us want to see is terrorists loose on our streets. | Obviously we have had legal advice from a number of sources and we are confident that this legislation can minimise constitutional risk. But the main point, and this is the point I want to stress, our message to people who leave Australia to fight for terrorist armies in the Middle East is that we don’t want you back. If you are a dual national, we won’t let you back because the first duty of government is to keep our country safe and the last thing any of us want to see is terrorists loose on our streets. |
| Tony Abbott has delivered his usual video message and the main point would appear to be that he needs a lot more sleep to complete the complicated business of government. | Tony Abbott has delivered his usual video message and the main point would appear to be that he needs a lot more sleep to complete the complicated business of government. |
| Updated at 8.59am AEST | Updated at 8.59am AEST |
| 8.12am AEST23:12 | 8.12am AEST23:12 |
| Good morning punks and fiddlers, | Good morning punks and fiddlers, |
| The day has dawned on the last sitting week before the winter recess and I can report from the long trek into the nation’s capital that the fog is lifting to reveal a severe frost. | The day has dawned on the last sitting week before the winter recess and I can report from the long trek into the nation’s capital that the fog is lifting to reveal a severe frost. |
| The week will be dominated by the citizenship issue which I will get to in a moment. | The week will be dominated by the citizenship issue which I will get to in a moment. |
| But as I dropped my not insubstantial baggage on the office floor, Tony Abbott took to the stage at the National Gallery for a Canberra Business Chamber breakfast. | But as I dropped my not insubstantial baggage on the office floor, Tony Abbott took to the stage at the National Gallery for a Canberra Business Chamber breakfast. |
| Abbott was spruiking the small business tax write-offs and giving a plug to Harvey Norman, which has set aside great swathes of the store to sell stuff. | Abbott was spruiking the small business tax write-offs and giving a plug to Harvey Norman, which has set aside great swathes of the store to sell stuff. |
| Elsewhere around the country, the PM says: | Elsewhere around the country, the PM says: |
| waves of confidence are lifting up businesses large and small. | waves of confidence are lifting up businesses large and small. |
| And then Abbott segues into something that smells like a campaign speech, mentioning | And then Abbott segues into something that smells like a campaign speech, mentioning |
| government that knows its place. | government that knows its place. |
| His three broad points of differentiation with Labor: | His three broad points of differentiation with Labor: |
| We won’t go “clobbering” Australia with a fixed or floating tax, the PM says. | |
| Onwards and upwards, Tony Abbott is now doing a doorstop. Join us on the Twits @gabriellechan and @mpbowers. | Onwards and upwards, Tony Abbott is now doing a doorstop. Join us on the Twits @gabriellechan and @mpbowers. |
| Updated at 9.01am AEST |