Inside Liberal camp: “I was just horrified for the last 10 years, because it was really the Nationals & Tony Abbott & Peta Credlin & ppl like that, that really held us back & it has meant that the country is in a terrible position now in terms of energy.”
Anthony Albanese: “You see, I know I can count on Penny and Richard, Katy and Jim and so many others to make the arguments for Labor. But who’s he got? Alan Tudge and Peter Dutton. The unspeakable and the unthinkable. And then of course, Barnaby Joyce, the inexplicable.”
#Auspol
BREAKING: Going her own way. Labor Senator Kristina Keneally to fly tonight on commercial means to visit the Tamil family detained on Christmas Island.
#BREAKING
PM Albanese indicates the interim Immigration Minister Jim Chalmers will announce today the Murugappan family will be allowed to return to Biloela.
@abcnews
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Anthony Albanese hurries on Immigration Minister Alex Hawke on Novak Djokovic in asking (at presser): "how long is the focus group taking in order for the government to get the answer before it responds to this issue?"
#auspol
Julia Gillard: "What I want to see for this country is a government that cares about, values and includes women. And I know that a government led by Albo will do precisely that."
#ausvotes
Liberal senator James Paterson says Labor's Richard Marles should put every thing he says on his website (including speech in Beijing)
David Speers then asks: "Should the PM post the speech he gave to the Christian Congress?
Paterson: That's a matter for the PM."
#Insiders
Exclusive: PM Albanese plans to lead the country from The Lodge in Canberra as part of his efforts to restore the city’s status as the national capital. Standards to lift when Parliament returns, more questions for the crossbench v
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OL Albanese on the Katherine Deves controversy: "This is just another of the chaos and division that is there within the Liberal Party. And I make this point - Scott Morrison's last captain's pick before the last election was a fellow called Craig Kelly."
#ausvotes
PM Albanese on ABC 774: "I've set up a vinyl player at the Lodge and that is a good thing. I have one there and it's added to the ambience at the Lodge. And the good news is that you're at a little bit of a distance from neighbours. So when appropriate, you can turn it up loud."
Labor campaign spokesman Jason Clare with a serious 🔥 over Solomons: "If you want to engage, get on a plane. What happened instead? The foreign minister went to a business function and some bloke called Zed got sent instead."
#auspol
#ausvotes
Sussan Ley interjects during Tanya Plibersek's answer on lithium recycling and cops the withering assessment from the minister: "She is an expert in recycling, backbench, frontbench, backbench, frontbench."
#qt
Exclusive: The Albanese Labor government is ending the compulsory religious aspect of the $60 million a year National School Chaplaincy Program v
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#auspol
#BREAKING
Grace Tame unloads at
#NPC
claiming she received a threatening phone call, five months after being named AoTY, from a senior member of a govt funded organisation asking for her word that she wouldn't say anything critical about the PM on the evening of the next AoTY.
#Exclusive
: Kathryn Campbell has been suspended without pay from her lucrative senior AUKUS job, making her the first senior head to roll after the robodebt royal commission’s findings.
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#RobodebtRC
Bill Shorten: "The last government gave us robodebt. The last government gave us robo-victims. The last government gave us robo-denial. Today, Labor will give the victims some robo-justice."
#auspol
Incoming SA Premier Peter Malinauskas says he will work collaboratively with any federal government but: "I'm not going to be Scomo's quokka either."
#savotes
#auspol
Fiery scenes in the House as Zali Steggall accuses Peter Dutton of racism & separating the community. Labor MPs including Tanya Plibersek move to sit behind her.
To Dutton over Gaza visas & interjections:
"We heard you in silence. You can hear me in silence. Stop being racist!"
Personal news. I am excited to let you all know that I am returning to journalism.. and federal politics. I am joining the fantastic team at
@canberratimes
as Chief Political Correspondent. Can't wait to get started.
Laura Tingle points to the 21 minutes of PM explanation at today’s press conference. With the Treasurer speaking as well, it was 28 minutes before the gallery could ask questions
#abc730
PM Albanese: "I thought this morning that we would see some contrition, some semblance of contrition. We got none of that. We got hubris and we got arrogance and we got denial."
#CensureMorrison
#auspol
Federal Liberal MP Russell Broadbent just made a statement to the House before
#qt
saying he was unvaccinated, got Covid-19 recently, took ivermectin and had a bit of a rough time. Wanted to talk about "choice and freedom." There you go
#auspol
Prof Marcia Langton very emotional here at
#NPC
as she pleads with the media, collectively to lift its game and not add to pile ons on good people. Then asked by Sky News if she would be willing to assist Peter Dutton with a second referendum. She answers, “Not in the least.”
Former Coalition minister Christopher Pyne just told the ABC he spoke to Anthony Albanese today and told him he did not want him to win, but if he did he "would be very proud of him."
#ausvotes
#auspol
QLD CHO is very upset with question: "What sort of level of death are you comfortable with?"
CHO Young: "Come on! Can you please remember who I am? I stand up here every day, I went into medicine to save lives. I'm not comfortable with any deaths that are preventable"
#COVID19Aus
#BREAKING
ACT DPP Shane Drumgold: "Ms Higgins has faced a level of personal attack that I have not seen in over 20 years of doing this work. She has done so with bravery, grace and dignity and it is my hope that this will now stop and Ms Higgins will be allowed to heal".
Have we ever heard an ASIO boss talk about incels and other violent misogynists? Pretty extraordinary. I am glad they are taking it seriously. Would like to hear more.
#abc730
Mark McGowan is pushing back on the feds over quarantine: "It's their responsibility, just so you know. Section 51 of the Constitution, the highest law in the land if you like, says it is the Commonwealth's responsibility."
Labor campaign spokesman Jason Clare on cost of living: "Next time you're at Woolies and Coles and you're swiping the goods, you hear the beep, beep, beep, ringing in your ears.. it will be Scott Morrison, "Not my fault. Not my fault. Not my fault."
#auspol
#ausvotes
This is one of my ABC AM stories on the Towke/Cook matter from 2007: “A senior party source says Mr Towke was a marvellous candidate who was destroyed publicly by a frenzied campaign from the party's left. The source had never seen politics so dirty.”
Andrew Wilkie says Bridget Archer’s crossing of the floor is the bravest thing he has seen during his time in parliament: crossing the floor for the sake of integrity
#federalICAC
#BREAKING
A scathing audit report has found the administration of the Morrison government's $2 billion Community Health and Hospitals program was ethically unsound and deliberately breached finance law.
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#BREAKING
In the ACT senate race (provisional results). Labor's Katy Gallagher has got a seat quota, while Independent David Pocock is in second place ahead of the Liberals Zed Seselja
#ACTSenatevotes
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Prof Marcia Langton: “Australian voters have been deceived by the “no” case and by the relentless negativity and conned into believing that the referendum proposal will not lead to better outcomes. Where are the solutions from the “no” case?”
#VoicetoParliament
#NPC
Exclusive: Charities are being told they are free to speak out again, with the new Assistant Minister for Charities promising that gag clauses will either be removed or not be enforced, v
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#auspol
Penny Wong on Mike Pezzullo's "drums of war" ANZAC day message: "I think words matter and this is not the sort of language that we generally use when we are trying to be sober and cautious."
Anthony Albanese: "I want Australia to continue to be a country that no matter where you live, who you worship, who you love or what your last name is, that places no restrictions on your journey in life."
#ausvotes
#BREAKING
Thom report dropped 3.50 PM Friday. Alan Tudge’s conduct found NOT to have breached Ministerial Standards. PM Morrison says he has accepted this advice. Note: Rachelle Miller did not participate. Mr Tudge is seeking Aston re-election, but sought no return to frontbench
PM asked if ministers like Stuart Robert, Christian Porter, and even Scott Morrison, will be called to give evidence to the Robodebt Royal Commission.
Albanese: "Well, it will be up to the royal commissioner. We don't pre-empt or control a royal commission process."
#auspol
Justice Lee: Judgment to respondents (Ch 10 and Lisa Wilkinson)
#Lehrmann
loses defamation case.
"Having escaped the lion’s den, Mr Lehrmann made the mistake of coming back for his hat," Justice Lee said.
"Mr Lehrmann is not entitled to the vindication of his reputation."
WA Premier Mark McGowan: "Maybe I am unusual, maybe I am out of step. But I think it's just commonsense that you don't leave Australia, which is essentially COVID free, and go to a country full of COVID and then get sick and want to come home. I don't see the sense in it."
PM Albanese: "This morning I came here not certain as to whether I would speak. But I have to respond to the [former] prime minister's comments, who has confirmed again, that he just doesn't get it."
#CensureMorrison
#auspol
Jacqui Lambie joins calls for Scott Morrison to resign and colleague to tell him: “You cannot just close your eyes on this and allow him to just walk around like he's still a member of Parliament … It's time for him to go. It's time for Scott Morrison to resign.”
@RNBreakfast
Gladys Berejiklian did not deny in her February statement that she called PM Morrison a “horrible, horrible person” as Scott Morrison just said. She said she had “no recollection of such messages”.
#abc730
Home Affairs secretary Stephanie Foster has rejected, in light of the Sky News report earlier today, that Minister Clare O’Neil has ever been “verbally abusive” with her. Ms Foster said she could “never imagine her to conduct herself in that way.”
Anne Aly frustrated with point of order from manager of opposition business Paul Fletcher: “Oh here they come… the league of unextraordinary gentlemen.”
#qt
#auspol
Quite the eye contact between Stuart Robert and Bill Shorten (and a few words and pointing on Robert's side).
Shorten accused Robert in Parliament of trying to "inappropriately task and pressure public servants who are no longer your ministerial responsibility."
#QT
David Pocock tells PK he backs ACOSS calls for the Albanese government to increase the JobSeeker payment from $46 to $70 a day .. in line with the pension
#auspol
@RNBreakfast
Liberal MP Bridget Archer rips apart opposition Voice criticism.
She has also posed to critics: "What exactly do you hope to achieve?"
Story 👇
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Brittany Higgins and Grace Tame enter
#NPC
to standing ovation. In the crowd is Christine Holgate, Bridget Archer, Julia Banks, Lucy Turnbull, Marise Payne, Jane Hume, Anne Ruston, Kate Jenkins, Simon Birmingham and Sarah Hanson-Young.
New: constitutional law expert Greg Craven is "absolutely furious" his words have been included as part of the authorised "no" Voice case and wants them removed.
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Exclusive: Brittany Higgins says the Morrison government treats sexual harassment as an ‘afterthought’ as it emerges parliament respect training is due to conclude at the end of the year, by
@sbasfordcanales
and me v
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#auspol
Slight change for media attendance at PM presser today. Not asking for
#covid19
vaccination certificate, but double vaccination is a “requirement”
#auspol
OL Peter Dutton described the Robodebt Royal Commission as "nothing more than a political get square with Scott Morrison. And I think the public can see through that."
#auspol
Noel Pearson's "last pitch": "Don't slam the door on the children. This is not about Noel Pearson or Patrick Dodson or Jacinta Price or Warren Mundine. We are the past. The children are the future. We're doing this for them."
#VoiceToParliament
PM Albanese reflecting back on Simon Crean not getting a chance at a federal election: "I do not think there is anyone in the Labor Party thinks it was a good idea to make Mark Latham leader."
#auspol
Former deputy Labor leader Jenny Macklin has been picked to head the Albanese government’s new independent advisory body into the welfare system v
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After crossing the floor, Liberal backbencher Bridget Archer walks out of the chamber with Indi MP Helen Haines. After they bow on exit, they turn and Haines puts her arm around Archer as they walk away
#FederalICAC
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PM Albanese asked how much Peter Dutton's views on all candidates for RBA governor were taken into account:
PM: "Zero. Less than zero. It must be said."
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Journo: "Prime Minister, you've been dragged into this by your Parliament and your parliamentary colleagues, haven't you, after government MPs threatened to cross the floor over it. There was no other option for you, was there?"
PM: "I'm just seeking to get things done, Andrew."
Clennell: "You keep saying "we", when you say we needed to do this, we needed to do that, your Treasurer didn't know, your Finance Minister didn't know, who is we - you and John Kunkel (CoS)?"
Morrison: "The Government."
(CROSS-TALK)
Morrison: "I was talking prospectively."
Bridget McKenzie: "The Mayor said to me Lismore loves Lismore and so I have taken that back to Canberra to the meetings I have been in since Sunday about how do we make sure that Lismore that loves Lismore and wants to stay and rebuild a sustainable future here."
The Department of Defence has racked up a $26 billion bill for contractors and consultants over the last financial year, totalling more than half of what all the other federal government agencies have spent combined, by
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Minister Angus Taylor asked what taxpayers will pay to get to net zero?
Minister: "Taxpayers are not paying anything, we are not raising taxes."
Speers points out taxpayers' $s being used.. at least $20 billion in the next decade.
Minister won't outline cost further
#insiders
#BREAKING
: Huge decision. Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has blocked Clive Palmer's Central Queensland Coal Project under Australia’s EPBC Act. Proposed decision of Aug 1, now final. Story coming
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#auspol
Labor leader Anthony Albanese: "Scott Morrison needs to stand up and say that in every state and territory there will be a fit-for-purpose quarantine facility established. Enough is enough."
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Prof Marcia Langton: “I fear that a “no” vote will be interpreted and falsely I should say, as a mandate for governments to do nothing, and to make their lives worse. I think that's the greatest danger.”
#VoicetoParliament
#NPC
Senator Jacqui Lambie has delivered a passionate speech to the Senate 'absolutely' opposing 'every bit' of the One Nation bill on Covid-19 'discrimination.
New: The Albanese government has announced a $33 million lifeline over the next four years to the National Library of Australia’s beloved free digital platform, Trove.
There is also indexed, annual funding going forward.
#Budget2023
#Trove
#auspol
Nats frontbencher Bridget McKenzie not happy with former Scott Morrison’s secret portfolios: “I always back accountability and transparency.” ex ABC Afternoon Briefing
#auspol
OL Albanese: "Does anyone think that this Government would have been talking about issues like childcare and women's safety if it wasn't for the fact that a reported sexual assault happened 50m from the Prime Minister's office?"
#auspol
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