PoliticsNow: Susan Lamb makes emotional plea to avoid High Court
Susan Lamb revealed details of her estranged relationship with her mother in a bid to avoid being referred to the High Court.
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The third parliamentary day of the year is expected to be dominated by share market volatility, the Adani coalmine and company tax cuts. Labor is yet to refer its Longman MP Susan Lamb to the High Court over her citizenship issues, putting pressure on the government to use its numbers in the House of Representatives to make a hostile referral.
Rosie Lewis 4.08pm: Government unmoved by Lamb speech
The Australian understands Ms Lamb’s speech has not swayed the government’s view that Bill Shorten should refer her to the High Court to have her eligibility tested.
The government has not ruled out using its numbers in the lower house to refer her if the Opposition Leader does not, but has not set a deadline to do so.
Government sources said Ms Lamb should go to the High Court to test whether she took all reasonable steps to renounce her British citizenship, and that her address only reconfirmed she was a dual citizen.
Rosie Lewis 3.58pm: ‘I would have definitely helped’
Ms Lamb’s mother, who lives north of Brisbane, told The Australian last month that she would have “definitely helped” her daughter if she had been approached for the marriage certificate.
Hazel remains in contact with Ms Lamb’s sister, Rachel.
“I didn’t know about (Susan) going into politics until it was pretty much all over and done,’’ she said. “It was a big surprise. She didn’t contact me but I would have definitely helped her.’’
Greg Brown 3.39pm: Lamb’s plea to avoid High Court
Labor MP Susan Lamb has refused to refer herself to the High Court after delivering an emotional speech in the House of Representatives, strongly arguing she took every reasonable step to renounce her British citizenship before the 2016 election.
Ms Lamb said she was estranged from her mother while her father had been dead for a decade, leaving her with no legal entitlement to provide the British Home Office with her parents’ birth certificate.
She said she had applied to renounce her citizenship before she was nominated as Labor’s candidate for Longman and was later asked for documents she had no legal access to.
Fighting back tears, she gave details of how her mother left the family when she was six and they had no contact since.
“I remember lots of tears, lots of confusion, I remember my dad trying to explain,” she told the House.
Her father was left to raise her and he died a decade ago.
Rosie Lewis 3.31pm: Family pain behind Lamb’s citizenship case
Labor MP Susan Lamb has told federal parliament details of her estranged relationship with her mother in a bid to appeal to the government not to refer her to the High Court.
Ms Lamb has been under increasing pressure after it was revealed she never successfully renounced her British citizenship because she did not present the UK government with her parents’ marriage certificate.
She told the chamber she was advised she did not have a legal entitlement to obtain the marriage certificate and that her mother was “not around” to grant her access to the document.
Malcolm Turnbull and Christopher Pyne, the government’s chief tactician, stayed in the House of Representatives to hear Ms Lamb’s speech.
In an emotional address, Ms Lamb said her mother dropped her off at school when she was six years old and “never came back to pick me up”. Her mother Hazel was not around for her 7th birthday, the birth of her fourth child, her school graduation, or to help her campaign for the 2016 election.
“Many years ago we made an attempt to build a relationship but regrettably that failed,” Ms Lamb said.
“I don’t know what was going on in my mum’s life back then, I don’t know when she dropped me off and never came back what was going on. I don’t know what’s going on in her life now, I have no idea. The fact is we don’t have a relationship.
“I imagine she carries her share of pain and trauma and if it’s anything like mine I wouldn’t wish that on anybody. I don’t speak about this trauma so when people ask me why I couldn’t just call my mother, well this is why and I hope this story gives you the answer.”
Ms Lamb said she wanted to share her story not to gain sympathy but to explain why she could not obtain her parents’ marriage certificate.
“I would simply ask those opposite, take a moment and think about the circumstances. Think about the consequences of attacks like this on my family,” she said.
“I remain confident I took all reasonable steps to renounce my citizenship and nothing will change. Everything to see has been shown except now I’ve been forced to rip that Band-Aid off a very painful story, painful to me and painful to my family.”
Greg Brown 3.18pm: PM defends Molan
Malcolm Turnbull goes into bat for Liberal senator Jim Molan after Labor asks why he was never sanctioned for reposting social media posts from the racist British First group.
The PM says the attacks on Mr Molanhad been “disgraceful”.
“(He was) a great Australian soldier who has defended and fought for the values and the freedoms we enjoy in this parliament,” he says.
Mr Turnbullsays Mr Molanhas taken down the posts, closed his Twitter account and made public statements regretting ever reposting them.
Greg Brown 3.11pm: Childcare reforms historic: PM
Labor frontbencher Amanda Rishworth grills Malcolm Turnbull on childcare.
She says the Productivity Commission report shows there was an increase of $2000 yearly price increase since the Coalition won power, claiming the government’s reforms will leave a further 279,000 families worse off.
“Just how much more will these 279,000 families have to pay because the Prime Minister doesn’t understand the cost of living pressures facing families?”
The PM says more than one million families will be better off under the reforms.
“Our child care reforms are historic, they are equitable, they are generous, and the honourable member should be backing them instead of trying to find fault where none exists,” he says.
Greg Brown 2.54pm: Labor’s ‘fraudulent’ NDIS stance
Malcolm Turnbull has labelled Labor’s stance on the NDIS as “fraudulent” when he was asked about why he was increasing the Medicare levy for middle income earners.
The PM says an increase in the levy was needed to pay for the scheme.
“They have claimed some kind of moral high ground for supporting it, and then failed to pay for it,” Turnbull says.
“They have mocked the families of disabled children, they have mocked them by seeking to elicit their praise and thanks for a disability insurance scheme they wouldn’t pay for.
“The Labor Party should stop its hypocrisy and it should get behind that legislation and pay for that great, compassionate national enterprise.”
Greg Brown 2.48pm: Treasurer’s disagreement with lending report
Scott Morrison says he does not agree with the Productivity Commission’s report which says the banking regulator’s tightening on mortgage lending has cost taxpayers about $500 million a year because of negative gearing.
“No I don’t agree,” the Treasurer says in response to a question from Bill Shorten.
“I can make my own assessment on these things, as I do, and it’s for this simple reason: the Productivity Commission’s report does not prove a costing on this at all.
“The Productivity Commission’s report does not take into account the fact that price growth in housing, say in Sydney, has fallen from 17 per cent to 1 per cent and as a result those interest-only loans under a higher price growth environment means they would have borrowed a lot more.”
Greg Brown 2.40pm: PM hits back on tax cuts
Bill Shorten asks Malcolm Turnbull why he wants to give a “Trump-style” tax cut to businesses when wage growth is so low.
The PM reads through quotes from Labor MPs who were previously supportive of company tax cuts.
“This once upon a time powerful advocate for company tax cuts driving investment, productivity and higher wages, this Leader of the Opposition now says that the proposition that lower business taxes result in more investment, more employment and higher wages is a fairytale,” Turnbull says.
“The Leader of the Opposition has missed the real fairytale ... that the Labor Party is capable of economic management.”
Greg Brown 2.37pm: All silent as Joyce speaks
Barnaby Joyce gets a Dixer from Nationals MP George Christensen.
It is the first we have heard from the Deputy Prime Minister since it was revealed this morning he will father a child to a former staffer whom is 17 years his junior.
Joyce talks up the Coalition’s infrastructure spend in regional Australia. There is not one heckle from Labor. The opposition benches are silent.
Greg Brown 2.30pm: Four pillars remain
Deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek asks Malcolm Turnbull if he will rule out abolishing the four pillars policy, which prevents the major four banks from merging.
The PM says yes.
“I can assure you we have no intention of (allowing) mergers between the big four banks,” he says.
Greg Brown 2.27pm: Morrison hits back on negative gearing
Labor’s treasury spokesman Chris Bowen goes again on finding from the Productivity Commission’s report, arguing the government’s efforts to cool the housing market has given extra profits to the banks because the government won’t reform negative gearing.
Scott Morrison says Labor’s plans to limit negative gearing and increase the capital gains tax will make property prices tumble.
“How much do they want property prices to fall in this country as a result of their reckless policies? But it goes further. He knows that his capital gains tax policy doesn’t just apply to housing,” Morrison says.
“They are going to increase the capital gains tax by 50 per cent on retail shops, on factories, and on shared transactions.”
Greg Brown 2.17pm: Heat on negative gearing
Bill Shorten asks about findings in a report on the Productivity Commission, arguing it shows APRA’s intervention in the housing market has lead to “windfalls” for banks which is paid for by the taxpayer.
“By refusing to reform negative gearing, isn’t the government giving banks an annual bonus of $500 million of taxpayers’ money? When the Prime Minister put people ahead of the big banks?”
Malcolm Turnbull says most beneficiaries of negative gearing were middle income earners.
“They’re such hopeless generals, they can’t even manage a class war,” Turnbull says.
Greg Brown 2.14pm: Parliament pays tribute to Ron Walker
Malcolm Turnbull opens up QT paying tribute to Melbourne businessman Ron Walker, who died last week after a long battle with cancer.
“Ron was a man of tremendous drive and focus, a dedicated servant of his state and his country and his city, a great Australian and a magnificent Melburnian,” the Prime Minister said.
“He towered over us all in life and in death his legacy will loom large over his beloved city. Ron helped Melbourne become the city it was always destined to be. We will not see his like again.”
He also commends Mr Walker for fighting to get an expensive but life saving cancer drug on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
“It revealed a side of Ron that he didn’t advertise widely - an understanding that with great wealth came a duty to those who are not so fortunate,” he says.
Bill Shorten says Walker helped turn Melbourne into a world-renowned city.
“Perhaps the most powerful enduring change Ron helped achieve was the change in mindset,” Shorten says.
“From the hard times of recession he helped restore Melbourne’s faith in itself as a global destination, a city that could boldly bid for world events, confident we could put a world class show on in Melbourne.”
2.10pm: Batman by-election date announced
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tony Smith, has announced that polling for the Batman by-election will occur on Saturday, 17 March. The by-election will coincide with the South Australian state election.
Rosie Lewis 2.08pm: Cabinet review to commence
The head of Malcolm Turnbull’s department, Martin Parkinson, has ordered a review into the department’s security procedures, practices and culture after hundreds of cabinet files went missing.
The review will also look at implications for the public service more broadly.
The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet announced “highly respected” former public servant and diplomat Ric Smith will commence the review once the Australian Federal Police has finished its investigation into how and when classified cabinet documents were lost.
Hundreds of cabinet files were obtained by the ABC after an unsuspecting member of the public purchased two heavy filing cabinets from an ex-government, second-hand furniture shop in Canberra containing the documents.
PM&C said the AFP was expected to make its initial findings shortly.
Mr Smith was an Australian ambassador to Indonesia and China and a Department of Defence Secretary.
Greg Brown 1.57pm: Bank profits down to non-action on negative gearing: Bowen
Labor’s treasury spokesman Chris Bowen says the banks have increased their profits because the Turnbull government has relied on the banking regulator to curb property prices rather than take action on negative gearing.
Mr Bowen leapt on a Productivity Commission report released today which showed that tighter lending rules have allowed major banks to jack up rates on existing residential and business loans in a profit gouge that is not only now costing mortgage holders but slugging taxpayers by up to $500 million a year.
“Let us remember that Scott Morrison has, for months, been saying that the answer to Australia’s housing affordability problems is to leave all the heavy lifting to the regulators, to leave all the work to APRA, that APRA could engage in macroprudential regulation, and that would fix everything,” Mr Bown.
“He told us there was no need to fix negative gearing.
“The Productivity Commission report has found that, because Scott Morrison has left the heavy lifting to the regulators ..that, in fact, banks have increased their profit margins, and that has been subsidised by the taxpayer due to negative gearing.
“Evidence mounts day after day that negative gearing has to be fixed. It appears that Scott Morrison is the only person who doesn’t want to fix negative gearing.”
Greg Brown 1.25pm: Chester defends Joyce’s privacy
Nationals MP Darren Chester says the private lives of politicians should stay private.
Mr Chester, who Barnaby Joyce dumped from cabinet to the backbench in December’s reshuffle, defended his party leader after the Daily Telegraph revealed he was in a relationship with a former staffer.
“Barnaby has been a friend of mine for the past 10 years and I really believe that private matters should stay private. I don’t think it helps for the operation of this place if I was to comment any further on these matters,” Mr Chester told Sky News.
“I wish Barnaby well, I wish his new partner well and I wish the pending arrival well. I think it is best left to that.”
Greg Brown 1.00pm: Joyce to appear on 7.30
Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce will appear on ABC’s 7.30 report tonight after the Daily Telegraph revealed he was fathering a child to a former staffer.
My guest tonight is the Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce #abc730
— Leigh Sales (@leighsales) February 7, 2018
Greg Brown 12.45pm: ‘Stupid over-reaction’
Bill Shorten has savaged Greens MP Adam Bandt for calling new Liberal senator Jim Molan a “coward”.
The Opposition Leader said Mr Bandt was engaging in “stupid over-reaction” by suggesting Senator Molan could have been prosecuted for war crimes if there was an independent review into the Iraq War.
“I completely disagree (with Mr Bandt),” Mr Shorten said in a statement.
“Senator Molan’s decision to share crazy hate videos was, at the very least, a severe error of judgment.
“But it does not justify this kind of stupid over-reaction.”
Greg Brown 12.20pm: PM ‘makes Trump look good’
Labor frontbencher Ed Husic says Malcolm Turnbull has made “Donald Trump look good” for the way he handled revelations new Liberal senator Jim Molan reposted videos from an anti-Islam group.
Mr Husic this morning said the Prime Minister should have criticised Senator Molan for sharing the videos from racist group British First.
“In one fell swoop Malcolm Turnbull did something that I didn’t think was possible, which was make Donald Trump look good because even Donald Trump apologised when he reposted the content (of these videos) and Malcolm Turnbull couldn’t do it. He says it’s out of respect, well I think there is a difference between respect and cowering to your colleagues,” Mr Husic said.
“If someone had reposted a misogynist (post) making terrible arguments about women, or homophobes making terrible arguments about the LGBTQI community, or if anti-Semites had posted something terrible about my friends in the Jewish community, would we have received the same approach from the Prime Minister? I doubt it (and) rightly so. “
Greg Brown 11.50am: ‘Bill captain, I’m half-back’
Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese has described himself as the half back of an NRL team or a midfielder in an AFL as he sought to deflect questions about his increased popularity over Bill Shorten.
Mr Albanese used sporting analogies to describe the Opposition Leader as the team captain while naming himself as the equivalent of the most important positions in each of the nation’s major football codes.
“(Shorten’s) the captain of the team. Tanya Plibersek’s vice-captain. I’m the half back, or the midfielder in AFL terms …sneaking up in the forward line occasionally to kick a goal against the Tories,” Mr Albanese told Adelaide radio station 5AA.
The presenter questioned whether Mr Albanese was kicking too many goals.
“No one’s ever kicking a few too many goals for Labor again the Tories. That’s the important thing,” he said.
Cabinet minister Christopher Pyne said Mr Shorten was like former English cricket captain Mike Brearley, who wasn’t a top player and was only captain to “hold the fort”.
“Everyone knew Mike Brearley wasn’t the best English cricketer. He was the captain because he was trying to hold the fort,” Mr Pyne said.
“The reality is that Bill Shorten is exactly the same. He’s not the best player in the Labor Party and he’s not going to be there for the long term. And the problem with Anthony’s thesis about winning an election this Saturday, is there isn’t an election this Saturday. There’s not election until mid-2019.”
Joe Kelly 11.27am: Pitt attacks NXT over welfare
Queensland Nationals MP Keith Pitt has attacked the Nick Xenophon Team for opposing legislation to expand trial sites for the cashless welfare card to his electorate of Hinkler which covers Bundaberg and Hervey Bay.
“The reason we are trying to implement what is a very tough policy is to give the kids in the electorate a better chance at life, to ensure they receive things they need – schooling, food and essentials,” he told The Australian.
“Effectively the backflip from the ALP on what was a bipartisan policy and the lack of support from the NXT will mean that my community has absolutely no change.”
Greg Brown 10.40am: Bandt: ‘Coward’ Molan could be prosecuted
Greens MP Adam Bandt has labelled new Liberal senator Jim Molan a “coward” and suggested he would be prosecuted as a war criminal if there was an independent inquiry into his conduct in Iraq.
Mr Bandt echoed the comments of Greens leader Richard Di Natale in criticising Senator Molan for sharing videos from racist group British First – but he made the accusations on Sky News rather than in the parliament which would have protected him from potential defamation.
“When you share white supremacist videos and then you justify it by saying, ‘I am doing it to stimulate debate’ .. you are a coward, you are a complete coward,” Mr Bandt said.
“At least own it, at least own your politics that you think white supremacist groups have something that you agree with and you want to share.”
Senator Molan, who was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the American Legion of Merit for his service in Iraq, was the chief of operations for the US-led coalition forces from April 2004.
Mr Bandt said Senator Molan would be prosecuted if there was an independent inquiry into his role during the assault on Fallujah in 2004.
“If there was a proper inquiry, an independent inquiry into the war in Iraq in Australia, I think you would find that Jim Molan would be up for prosecution rather than praise for his role in the atrocities in Fallujah,” he said.
Senator Di Natale used parliamentary privilege yesterday to accuse Senator Molan of overseeing a “humanitarian catastrophe”.
Greg Brown 9.44am: ‘None of my business’
Senior Labor MPs are yet to bite on revelations Barnaby Joyce is having a baby with a former staffer who is 17 years his junior.
Opposition health spokeswoman Catherine King said it was a “private and personal” matter.
“It is obviously something very difficult for the family and the people involved,” Ms King said.
Opposition environment spokesman Tony Burke said it was “none of my business”.
“It is one for members of his family, there is a principle here that I have always abided by, to not engage in anything that hits the private lives of other members of parliament and I am not about to start now,” Mr Burke said.
“Newspapers will make their own decisions about what they believe their readers want to know. I am simply telling you it is something I view as none of my business.”
Greg Brown 9.30am: Labor ‘at war with itself’ on Adani
Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg has accused Labor of trying to “muddy the waters” on the Adani project so it could have an excuse to drop its support for the coalmine in the lead-up to the Batman by-election.
Mr Frydenberg said Labor was “at war with itself” on the issue as he denied the federal government should investigate allegations Adani gave false evidence of the environmental impact of the Abbot Point coal terminal in Queensland, arguing it was a matter for the Queensland government.
But Mr Frydenberg repeatedly refused to guarantee the coalmine in central Queensland would have no adverse impact on the Great Barrier Reef.
“We have put in place the strictest conditions very conscious of the fact we need to protect our reef,” Mr Frydenberg told Sky News.
“Labor with the (Batman) by-election looming is now at war with itself over the Adani mine, Bill Shorten less than 12 months ago said he supported the mine, other Labor frontbenchers have repeated that view.
“Tony Burke is now seeking to muddy the waters, to obscure the fact that Labor is crab walking back from its support for the Adani mine, the reality is we put in place 36 of the most strict, rigorous, environmental conditions for the Adani mine.”
Greg Brown 8.30am: Tehan hopeful on cashless welfare
Social Services Minister Dan Tehan says the government has not given up hope of securing Senate support to expand the cashless welfare card, despite the Nick Xenophon Team siding with Labor to oppose the proposal.
Mr Tehan said he would talk with crossbenchers to convince them of the evidence that the card was beneficial in its two trial sites in Western Australia and South Australia.
“The figures show that we were seeing reductions in drug use, we were seeing reductions in alcohol use so those figures were there,” Mr Tehan told ABC radio.
“We are in fruitful discussions with the crossbenchers on this bill, we continue to have those discussions, we are going through the report and the research and demonstrating what has been the outcomes.”
Labor and NXT argue there was insufficient evidence the cashless welfare card produced positive results and are moving for the trial to be extended for a year.
The government needs the support of nine out of 11 crossbenchers to expand the program.
Greg Brown 8.15am: Pollies relationships ‘private’
Social Services Minister Dan Tehan says politicians’ relationships are “private” and it should be up to MPs to reveal them to the public.
Mr Tehan said the relationship between Barnaby Joyce and his former staffer was a “private matter” after the Daily Telegraph revealed the couple were having a baby.
“My personal view is that this is a private matter,” Mr Tehan told ABC radio.
“It should be up to the individuals as to what they would like to put into the public domain or not.”
Well the public judge Politicians on their values
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Greg Brown 8.00am: ‘Adani shouldn’t be funded’
Labor’s environment spokesman Tony Burke says he is “deeply troubled” by the government’s refusal to answer questions about Adani’s environmental approvals.
Mr Burke said he was concerned about allegations the Indian conglomerate had falsified a samples of the environmental impact from a spill from the Abbot Point coal terminal after Cyclone Debbie.
He added the economics of the Adani project were problematic.
“The economics of that project have deep problems and we have got to remember this is a project that bank after bank after bank has said shouldn’t be funded,” Mr Burke told ABC radio.
Greg Brown 7.10am: NXT to vote with Labour on cashless welfare
The Turnbull government faces stiff headwinds to expand trial sites for the cashless welfare card after the Nick Xenophon Team revealed last night it would vote with Labor to block the legislation.
Nick Xenophon Team MP Rebekha Sharkie voted down the government’s legislation in the House of Representatives last night, backing Labor’s proposal for the trial to be extended for another year.
Ms Sharkie said there had not been enough evidence the trial had worked in South Australia’s Ceduna and Western Australia’s East Kimberly.
The trials end in June and the government needs legislative support to extend the program and expand it to Goldfields in Western Australia and Bundaberg in Queensland.
“It is an incredibly expensive program to continue let alone expand,” Ms Sharkie told the House.
“You must have conclusive evidence that the card is working effectively and these conclusions must come from independent evaluations.
“I do not believe we truly know right now how successful the trials have been until much more data is collected, especially as the research findings and community trials to date have been so mixed.”
She said the government’s research which showed the trials had worked were flawed because the findings were mostly based on self-reporting data.
She said the government should only introduce the card in areas where there is community support and there should be a “network” of additional social services for drug and alcohol addicts.
The government has the numbers in the lower house to pass the bill but will need nine out of 11 Senate crossbenchers to vote in support of the legislation, with NXT holding three Senate spots.
One Nation and Australian Conservatives leader Cory Bernardi would not reveal their voting intentions yesterday, while Liberal-Democrats senator David Leyonhjelm said he would support the proposal. The Greens will vote against the legislation and any amendments.
Labor’s social services spokeswoman Jenny Macklin said Labor would move amendments in the Senate to propose an extension on the trial sites in Ceduna and East Kimberly.
“Labor believes that there is insufficient credible evidence at this point to support the establishment of further trials of the cashless debit card,” Ms Macklin said.
“Labor has consistently said that we will take a community-by-community approach to the further rollout of the cashless debit card.”
She said the trial cost about $12,000 per participant, meaning it was crucial the scheme was effective.
“It is quite extraordinary that the government is trying to pass this legislation through the Parliament this week without disclosing how much it will cost taxpayers to roll out the card to the Goldfields and Bundaberg,” she said.
Social Services Minister Dan Tehan said: “The cashless debit card has made a real difference in the communities where it has been trialled and the government is continuing to work with the crossbench to pass this important legislation.”
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