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| Greens senator Larissa Waters attacked after invoking Pope on climate change – as it happened | Greens senator Larissa Waters attacked after invoking Pope on climate change – as it happened |
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| 9.48am BST | 9.48am BST |
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| Night time political summary | Night time political summary |
| Tomorrow, the day will be bookended by party room meetings in the morning and the final instalment of the ABC series The Killing Season in the evening. In the middle, we will have Lenore Taylor’s interview with Julia Gillard. | Tomorrow, the day will be bookended by party room meetings in the morning and the final instalment of the ABC series The Killing Season in the evening. In the middle, we will have Lenore Taylor’s interview with Julia Gillard. |
| Thanks to Mike Bowers, Daniel Hurst and Shalailah Medhora for their input. | Thanks to Mike Bowers, Daniel Hurst and Shalailah Medhora for their input. |
| Goodnight. | Goodnight. |
| P.S. Most politicians practice in the mirror. | P.S. Most politicians practice in the mirror. |
| In the interests of accurate reporting, there were people there. But they were sitting well back. | In the interests of accurate reporting, there were people there. But they were sitting well back. |
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| at 9.54am BST | at 9.54am BST |
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| Tell it to Pitcairn Island Dr Jensen. Associated Press reports: | Tell it to Pitcairn Island Dr Jensen. Associated Press reports: |
| Pitcairn Island, a tiny speck in the Pacific that is home to just 48 people, has passed a law allowing same-sex marriage, but has no gay couples wanting to wed. | Pitcairn Island, a tiny speck in the Pacific that is home to just 48 people, has passed a law allowing same-sex marriage, but has no gay couples wanting to wed. |
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| As we had eyes on the federation chamber, Daniel Hurst captured the nub of Liberal MP Dennis Jensen’s arguments against same sex marriage. | As we had eyes on the federation chamber, Daniel Hurst captured the nub of Liberal MP Dennis Jensen’s arguments against same sex marriage. |
| Lib Dennis Jensen speaks re #MarriageEquality Fed Chamber. "Proponents make..a v.fundamental error.They believe marriage is only about love" | Lib Dennis Jensen speaks re #MarriageEquality Fed Chamber. "Proponents make..a v.fundamental error.They believe marriage is only about love" |
| Lib Dennis Jensen on #MarriageEquality: "I love my siblings, I love my children, I love my parents.Does that mean that I should marry them?" | Lib Dennis Jensen on #MarriageEquality: "I love my siblings, I love my children, I love my parents.Does that mean that I should marry them?" |
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| Environment minister Greg Hunt has turned up at the federation chamber to speak to government funding for science, research and innovation. Hunt says MacTiernan’s motion on cuts to science funding were plainly wrong. | Environment minister Greg Hunt has turned up at the federation chamber to speak to government funding for science, research and innovation. Hunt says MacTiernan’s motion on cuts to science funding were plainly wrong. |
| He said the government has invested in “practical applied environmental work”. He does not touch on Bjorn Lomborg’s consensus centre. | He said the government has invested in “practical applied environmental work”. He does not touch on Bjorn Lomborg’s consensus centre. |
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| Stop: This is a lazy and dangerous piece of legislation, says Ludlam | Stop: This is a lazy and dangerous piece of legislation, says Ludlam |
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| WA Labor MP Alannah MacTiernan is in the federation chamber, which is a secondary forum to the house, moving a private members motion on funding for science, research and innovation. She wants to know how climate contrarian Bjorn Lomborg’s consensus centre was funded by the federal government at the University of Western Australia. Albeit briefly. (The UWA decided not to go ahead after academics protested.) | WA Labor MP Alannah MacTiernan is in the federation chamber, which is a secondary forum to the house, moving a private members motion on funding for science, research and innovation. She wants to know how climate contrarian Bjorn Lomborg’s consensus centre was funded by the federal government at the University of Western Australia. Albeit briefly. (The UWA decided not to go ahead after academics protested.) |
| Liberal MP and physicist Dennis Jensen is speaking vehemently against MacTiernan’s motion on the grounds of freedom of speech. He says the UWA academics who protested were all “social scientists” rather than those from the “hard sciences”. | Liberal MP and physicist Dennis Jensen is speaking vehemently against MacTiernan’s motion on the grounds of freedom of speech. He says the UWA academics who protested were all “social scientists” rather than those from the “hard sciences”. |
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| at 9.49am BST | at 9.49am BST |
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| Stay tuned, indigant harrumphers, JG is going to vent | Stay tuned, indigant harrumphers, JG is going to vent |
| Heads up for Lenore Taylor’s exclusive with Julia Gillard, coming tomorrow. | Heads up for Lenore Taylor’s exclusive with Julia Gillard, coming tomorrow. |
| Here is a taste. | Here is a taste. |
| I am mindful of having a luxurious freedom, tempered with one self-imposed constraint, as I outline my thoughts. Being beyond politics, I am able to examine the role of the media without worrying about the indignant harrumphing that emanates from many journalists and commentators when you do so. For a profession that holds dear both the ability to vivisect politicians in prose and the expectation that these carved-up subjects will not complain, the media is horribly thin-skinned and vengeance-seeking when on the receiving end of criticism. | I am mindful of having a luxurious freedom, tempered with one self-imposed constraint, as I outline my thoughts. Being beyond politics, I am able to examine the role of the media without worrying about the indignant harrumphing that emanates from many journalists and commentators when you do so. For a profession that holds dear both the ability to vivisect politicians in prose and the expectation that these carved-up subjects will not complain, the media is horribly thin-skinned and vengeance-seeking when on the receiving end of criticism. |
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| Senator Scott Ludlam is batting away, trying to get amendments through on the Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) bill 2015. | Senator Scott Ludlam is batting away, trying to get amendments through on the Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) bill 2015. |
| The bill: | The bill: |
| Amends the Copyright Act 1968 to enable copyright owners to apply to the Federal Court of Australia for an order requiring a carriage service provider to block access to an online location operated outside Australia that has the primary purpose of infringing copyright or facilitating the infringement of copyright. | Amends the Copyright Act 1968 to enable copyright owners to apply to the Federal Court of Australia for an order requiring a carriage service provider to block access to an online location operated outside Australia that has the primary purpose of infringing copyright or facilitating the infringement of copyright. |
| The Greens amendments generally seek to allow challenges or reviews to blocking online locations for third parties. | The Greens amendments generally seek to allow challenges or reviews to blocking online locations for third parties. |
| Labor, Liberal and the National party senators are opposing, though not all of them need to turn up, given the small number of senators supporting Ludlam’s amendments. | Labor, Liberal and the National party senators are opposing, though not all of them need to turn up, given the small number of senators supporting Ludlam’s amendments. |
| Ludlam is generally only getting the support of Liberal Democrat David Leyonhjelm, independent Glenn Lazarus and Motoring Enthusiast senator Ricky Muir. | Ludlam is generally only getting the support of Liberal Democrat David Leyonhjelm, independent Glenn Lazarus and Motoring Enthusiast senator Ricky Muir. |
| Connie Fierravanti-Wells is taking questions in place of George Brandis. | Connie Fierravanti-Wells is taking questions in place of George Brandis. |
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| The Senate is still on the online infringement bill. Connie Fierravanti-Wells is answering questions for attorney general George Brandis, who we believe is in cabinet. | The Senate is still on the online infringement bill. Connie Fierravanti-Wells is answering questions for attorney general George Brandis, who we believe is in cabinet. |
| The Senate is debating the definition of a VPN right now. | The Senate is debating the definition of a VPN right now. |
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| Shalailah Medhora | Shalailah Medhora |
| Richard Colbeck, the parliamentary secretary to the agriculture minister, calls the deaths of dolphins caught in factory fishing trawler nets “disappointing and unfortunate”. | Richard Colbeck, the parliamentary secretary to the agriculture minister, calls the deaths of dolphins caught in factory fishing trawler nets “disappointing and unfortunate”. |
| Factory fishing trawlers have been banned from working in an expanse of ocean off the New South Wales-Victoria coast as a result of the latest death. | Factory fishing trawlers have been banned from working in an expanse of ocean off the New South Wales-Victoria coast as a result of the latest death. |
| The Australian fisheries management authority (Afma) has closed “zone six” of a small fishery zone following a declaration by the 95-metre vessel Geelong Star that its dolphin death toll has reached nine since it began operating in mid-April. | The Australian fisheries management authority (Afma) has closed “zone six” of a small fishery zone following a declaration by the 95-metre vessel Geelong Star that its dolphin death toll has reached nine since it began operating in mid-April. |
| “All fishing poses risks to the marine environment that can sometimes lead to the unintentional harm of marine mammals,” Colbeck said. | “All fishing poses risks to the marine environment that can sometimes lead to the unintentional harm of marine mammals,” Colbeck said. |
| “The only way to completely eliminate interactions with marine mammals would be to stop all fishing, which is unrealistic and would eliminate one of the world’s most important sources of protein.” | “The only way to completely eliminate interactions with marine mammals would be to stop all fishing, which is unrealistic and would eliminate one of the world’s most important sources of protein.” |
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| Bernard Keane of Crikey has written an interesting piece on Tony Abbott’s prime ministership. Keane’s thesis is rather than progressing reform as PM, Abbott has morphed into a “super opposition leader” since the leadership crisis in February. | Bernard Keane of Crikey has written an interesting piece on Tony Abbott’s prime ministership. Keane’s thesis is rather than progressing reform as PM, Abbott has morphed into a “super opposition leader” since the leadership crisis in February. |
| Abbott’s approach to national security isn’t actually intended to stop terrorism — as we explained last week, in fact he is making it worse — but is focused on applying the same successful slogan-based negative approach that worked in other areas in opposition. With the citizenship-stripping proposal (which, despite the fuss occasioned by it, will have minimal real-world deterrence for terrorists — how many suicide bombers fret about losing their citizenship?), Abbott is in effect saying “stop the terrorists”. They are to be left offshore, even if they were born and grew up in Australia, and never allowed to come back here, just as no asylum seeker arriving by boat will ever be settled here. Except, worse than our willingness to dump the problem of a global surge in asylum seekers onto other, usually poorer, countries to cope with, in fact we’ll be dumping our own problem, home-grown terrorists, onto other countries. | Abbott’s approach to national security isn’t actually intended to stop terrorism — as we explained last week, in fact he is making it worse — but is focused on applying the same successful slogan-based negative approach that worked in other areas in opposition. With the citizenship-stripping proposal (which, despite the fuss occasioned by it, will have minimal real-world deterrence for terrorists — how many suicide bombers fret about losing their citizenship?), Abbott is in effect saying “stop the terrorists”. They are to be left offshore, even if they were born and grew up in Australia, and never allowed to come back here, just as no asylum seeker arriving by boat will ever be settled here. Except, worse than our willingness to dump the problem of a global surge in asylum seekers onto other, usually poorer, countries to cope with, in fact we’ll be dumping our own problem, home-grown terrorists, onto other countries. |