Politics Live: June 16, 2014

It's time we availed ourselves of Canberra's non-Comcar transport options and made for the hills.

But before we do, what did we learn today?

• Toilet rolls are not just for Halloween pranks. You can use them for political protests too;
• Dance is also a thought-provoking mode of dissent;
• But nothing gets people's attention more than refusing to vote with your own side;
• Peter Cosgrove won't run out of bedtime reading anytime soon; and 
• Despite the welfare crisis, Australians are less reliant on welfare than we were a decade a go. Huh?

 

Alex Ellinghausen and I will snap and chat to you tomorrow.

Until then!

 

 

Labor is ructioning over asylum seekers.

Sarah Whyte and James Massola have an exclusive report about Labor MPs urging their colleagues to drop support for asylum seeker processing on Nauru and Manus Island.

Melissa Parke and Anna Burke will put a motion to the caucus room on Tuesday.

 

And this one?

Peta Credlin, chief of staff to the Prime Minister, and Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop in discussion during QT. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

And what about this tableau?

Leader of the House Christopher Pyne, opposition infrastructure and transport spokesman Anthony Albanese and Palmer United Party leader Clive Palmer in discussion during question time. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

What do you think Hockey and Hunt were in such serious chat about?

Here's one idea we've had at The Pulse.

 

Treasurer Joe Hockey and Environment Minister Greg Hunt during QT. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

There has been an awful lot of discussion in the chamber today.

We have already pointed to a few conversations in QT this afternoon.

But here's a few more for your Monday.

 

Treasurer Joe Hockey and Environment Minister Greg Hunt in discussion during QT. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Nick McKenzie and Richard Baker report on that arrest warrant for PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill.

Fairfax Media can reveal that experts from a private Sydney forensic firm have analysed a document that appears to have been signed by O'Neill, but which he says had been forged.

The document allegedly enabled a corrupt PNG law firm to rort hundreds of millions of dollars in government funds.

The expert Sydney advice confirmed the suspicions of PNG fraud and corruption investigators that O'Neill did sign the document.

It has been what they call a wide-ranger from Joyce.

 

Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce is in the parliamentary gardens.

He is concerned about a corn syrup product masquerading as Victorian honey.

He points out this is neither Victorian, nor honey.

"If it's not from bees, let's not call it honey."

This means that the debt levy debate is also on a break.

And it doesn't look like going to a vote any time soon.

When the Senate comes back at 5.30pm, it has procedural stuff to get through until the dinner break at 6.30pm.

From 7.30pm it then has some committee reports and other matters to attend to.

So, it is possible that the debt levy will be finally voted on much later tonight. But it is also likely that it won't happen until tomorrow.