Pauline Hanson provoked a rare show of unity in parliament today as other parties banded together to overwhelmingly reject her latest idea.
It's the final week of parliament before the midwinter break, which means our politicians have just four days to get something done before leaving Canberra and not returning until September 9.
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Debate on the Ensuring Integrity Bill – the one the government says is designed to crack down on rogue unions and officials – won't be completed tonight, so will resume tomorrow.
And so will this blog.
Join us again for more joyful arguments about Angus Taylor, the Newstart allowance and whatever other juicy topics come up.
Former federal MP Emma Husar has settled her defamation case with Buzzfeed after she claimed the news site had portrayed her as "a slut" and "sexually perverted".
The deal is expected to be signed off in the coming days by the publication's United States management and reporter Alice Workman, a lawyer for Ms Husar told AAP.
The matter is then scheduled to return to the Federal Court for the final time on August 6.
Ms Workman, now a journalist for The Australian, had published allegations of misconduct made against Ms Husar and examined as part of a confidential internal Labor investigation.
The Labor inquiry found Ms Husar had mistreated her electorate staff but did not find evidence to support claims of sexual harassment or that she'd flashed another federal MP.
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Labor's attempt to have Energy and Emissions Reduction Minister Angus Taylor's conduct referred to a Senate inquiry has failed by a single vote.
The Greens voted for the motion, along with the Centre Alliance and independent Senator Jacqui Lambie.
One Nation and former Liberal Cory Bernardi sided with the government, however, leading to a final margin of 33-32.
The new Liberal member for Higgins, Katie Allen, delivered her maiden speech earlier today.
Dr Allen, who replaced senior Liberal Kelly O'Dwyer in the seat, focused on climate change – and suggested Australians were ready for a "mature" conversation about nuclear energy.
"Climate change is real and affects us all. There is now a major and inevitable transition occurring in our energy sector to a clean and sustainable energy future. It is not just an environmental imperative to act, it's an economic one," she said.
"We need to be open to new possibilities to reduce emissions to hasten that future and use our Australian pragmatism to lead the world in sustainable energy.
"I believe that the Australian public is ready for a mature conversation on new technologies, such as hydrogen, and even alternative energy sources, such as nuclear, which will only move forward with bipartisan support."
Dr Allen said that as a scientist, she would champion "scientific solutions" to Australia's problems.
"Disagreement is part of being a scientist, as it is for politics. As our Prime Minister is apt to say, we don't need to disagree less as a parliament, we just need to disagree better."
Penny Wong will shortly move a motion in the Senate to refer Angus Taylor to an inquiry.
It does not have the numbers to succeed. But she is arguing vociferously for it anyway.
"I don't know why anyone in this place would waste their political capital protecting Angus Taylor. Because you know what he's busy using his political position to do? Shore his investments up," Ms Wong told her colleagues in the chamber.
"Angus Taylor failed to declare a direction financial interest in a company. But worse, he then used his position as a minister to defend that company's interests after it was accused of breaking the law.
"I'd encourage any senators who are not currently supporting an inquiry into the minister to reflect on exactly who and what they're protecting. They're not protecting everyday Australians."
The government, obviously, will not be supporting the inquiry. Neither will crossbenchers Pauline Hanson and Cory Bernardi. So the motion's defeat is inevitable.
"If the government doesn't think there's anything to hide, why don't you allow an inquiry?" Ms Wong said.
Fifteen MPs from across the political spectrum are co-sponsoring a historic bill to decriminalise abortion in New South Wales.
The legislation, which is set to be introduced into the state parliament later this week, also has the support of Premier Gladys Berejiklian.
"If the legislation contains what I think it does, I'll be supporting it," Ms Berejiklian said.
"NSW is the last state to decriminalise abortion, and all members of the Liberals and Nationals will be given a conscience vote on this issue."
The Premier said she did not begrudge MPs holding strong personal views on the issue.
"It's important for that (abortion) to be a decision for the woman, and for the state not to cast judgement on the morality of that decision," she said, espousing her own view.
The bill would allow for abortions up to 22 weeks into a pregnancy, and later than that if two doctors believe one should be performed given the medical, physical, social and psychological circumstances.
– with AAP
There is plenty of speculation that conservative Senator Cory Bernardi will retire from politics and leave Canberra by the end of the year.
Those rumours gathered more steam today as Mr Bernardi emailed his Senate colleagues, letting them know his unit was for sale, The Australian reports.
"I am selling my studio apartment in Griffith and thought it might be of interest as it is among the most affordable accommodation within walking distance of Parliament House," he said.
The studio is on sale for just $160,000, the sort of price Sydney and Melbourne residents can only dream of.
Labor MP Sharon Bird got the first question in Question Time today, and she made it a simple one.
"Could the Prime Minister live on the Newstart rate of $40 a day?" she asked.
"Like all of those who are on Newstart, or many of the other welfare payments that are provided to them by the taxpayer, those payments are certainly modest," Scott Morrison said.
"And those payments are indexed every six months along with every other welfare payment, and the Australian public provides that support. But the most important support that is provided by this government is to ensure that people can get off welfare and get work."
Labor interrupted to raise a point of order, claiming Mr Morrison was not addressing the question.
"There has been no reference whatsoever from the Prime Minister as to whether or not he could live on the amount," Manager of Opposition Business Tony Burke said.
Speaker Tony Smith ruled that Mr Morrison was indeed being "directly relevant" to the question, and so he continued on his merry way.
"What I will not engage in is the unfunded empathy of the Labor Party. I will not go out, as the Labor Party did at the last election, pretending they're going to do something about Newstart, but they won't tell Australians how much they're going to increase it by, how much is that going to cost and how are they going to pay for it," he said.
Angus Taylor has made a statement to the House addressing Labor's accusations he had a conflict of interest when he met with the Environment Department to discuss endangered grasslands.
Mr Taylor said he had disclosed his shareholdings in the company Gufee Pty Ltd on his register of interests, and the register also disclosed Gufee's interest in Farm Partnerships Australia.
"This is a legal partnership set up with my three brothers and a business associate over twenty years ago to farm across this region, close to where I stand now, via leased, managed and owned farms," he said.
"originally set it up to work with ageing and absentee farmers, to allow them to continue to living on, and owning their farms, beyond their ability to farm themselves.
"This farming partnership – a common legal structure for rural holdings – has in recent years held a one-third interest in a farm near Delegate in South Eastern NSW
"If the register of interests were required to record minority, non-controlling interests held at three levels down in a family company structure, this would be a major change to the current practice."
The shorter version of this is that Mr Taylor says he has "fully met" his obligations to declare his interests in both Gufee and Farm Partnerships Australia.
Mr Taylor was seen consulting with Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Leader of the House Christian Porter before his statement.
Mr Taylor has persistently claimed he was representing the interests of farmers in his constituency when he met with the Environment Department. Today he provided more detail.
"In late 2016 and early 2017 I spoke with farmers from Boorowa and Goulburn in my electorate and Yass, which had been in Hume until mid 2016, about this listing and their concerns with the listing," he said.
"On 21 February 2017, I spoke with a farmer near Yass who expressed strong and detailed concerns about the revised listing, pointing out that it had occurred despite the concerns of the National Farmers’ Federation and NSW Farmers, and with little consultation with farmers themselves. All of these farmers were completely disconnected from our family farming operations.
"There had been strong antagonism expressed by the farming community about federal and state native vegetation regulation for some time.
The concern was very serious.
"On 21 February 2017, at the suggestion of the Yass farmer, I contacted the Policy Director of the NSW Farmers Association who provided me with their June 2014 submission to the then Department of the Environment expressing serious concerns about the proposed revised listing.
"On the basis of these concerns, I sought a briefing on the revised listing from the then minister’s office, which I made clear was not to include any discussion of compliance matters.
"This has already been confirmed by departmental documents released to journalists under FOI, in which an official writes in internal correspondence, that the meeting with me was – and I quote – 'to answer questions on the technical aspects of the listing outcome' and highlights that they would 'stay out of completely' any compliance action underway.
"The official also writes, and I quote, 'we will confine our discussion to the EPBC Act listing process'.
"On 20 March 2017, I attended the meeting.
"At no time during this meeting, was any compliance matter, or any personal interest of mine, discussed. At that meeting we discussed precisely what the Department had said we would discuss."
Again, the short version is that Mr Taylor believes he has done absolutely nothing wrong.
He also tabled two documents – a 2014 letter from the National Farmers Federation expressing concerns about the revised listing, and this map showing the geographic distribution of the grasslands.
Our news editor Liz Burke was just on Sky News, talking about Barnaby Joyce's travails.
As usual, she made some damn good points.
.@lizeburke on @Barnaby_Joyce's finances:
— Sky News Australia (@SkyNewsAust) July 29, 2019
The point he’s making is good, that when circumstances change it's stressful. But people on Newstart know this. They’re just not going from six figures, to a slightly lower six figures.
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