Politics Live: June 16, 2015

Okay, that's a wrap for the day people.

What happened?

• there are allegations intelligence services have been paying people smugglers for at least four years which means Labor now faces questions about its own conduct while in government;
• Opposition leader Bill Shorten said people smugglers were never paid to turn back boats but would not comment on what intelligence agencies did during Labor's time in government;
• the allegations muted the opposition's attack on the government and the government called out the opposition for hypocrisy;
• the Senate has passed a Greens motion compelling the government to produce any documents about payments;
• the opposition announced it would not support the government's changes to the pension which it announced in the budget; and
• there's still no sign of the legislation dealing with the government's proposed citizenship changes.

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Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been talking about the government's proposed citizenship changes.

He has gone to some lengths to point out that the Citizenship Act already makes it a condition of citizenship that someone not fight against Australia.

If you do that "you can't come back", Mr Turnbull told Sky News.

Mr Turnbull said the legislation was still being drafted and would not be drawn on what was discussed in last night's cabinet meeting.

But he stressed that anything the government did had to be done "within the rules of the laws of Australia".

This comes as Fairfax Media's Indonesia correspondent, Jewel Topsfield, has obtained photographs of thousands of US dollars handed to six people smugglers, which Indonesian police say is proof of bribery by Australian officials.

"We have given you the evidence," General Endang Sunjaya, the police chief of Nusa Tenggara Timur province, says.

"It's now up to you and other organisations to demand an answer from the Australian government."

You can read Jewel's story here.

The Senate has passed a Greens motion compelling the government to produce documents showing it did or did not spend money paying people smugglers to turn back boats.

The government has until 3pm tomorrow to comply.

"Paying for the trafficking of people is illegal," Greens spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young said in a statement.

"The Australian public have a right to know what has occurred, how much money has been spent and who in the government authorised payments to be made."

Former speaker Anna Burke has gone further in her attack on the impartiality on the person who now holds the chair, Bronwyn Bishop (see 3.17 pm post).

Political reporter Judith Ireland has more.

Ms Burke says Mrs Bishop is "totally trashing the tradition" of the impartiality of the office.

Former speaker Anna Burke has gone further in her attack on the impartiality on the person who now holds the chair, Bronwyn Bishop (see 3.17 pm post).

Political reporter Judith Ireland has more.

You catch up with who has said what today - or not - on boats in this story by Matthew Knott.

This time tomorrow inhabitants of Parliament House and others will be scampering about trying to finish work a wee bit early to prepare for the Midwinter Ball.

The annual event is a charity ball held by the press gallery to bring together MPs, staffers, the media, lobbyists and others at a social gathering (yeah, I know, it's not like we spend enough time together already).

One of the features of the evening is a charity auction featuring dates with MPs.

You can bid here.

The most popular item so far is a dinner in New York with Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop and actor Hugh Jackmean. Bids are at $25,000 at the moment for that one.

Next most popular is dinner with Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull ($8,100) and then Prime Minister Tony Abbott ($6,200).

Would someone like to start off the bidding on dinner with Opposition leader Bill Shorten?

Here's the video of the "discussion" about the speakership that came just after the end of question time.