TurnbullsayssaysHi No parlt'y vote on homosexual marriage as the govt said it wouldn't,but 18c can be changed as the govt said it wouldn't. Goodo pic.twitter.com/ed65VE2XnO 11.40pm GMTGuardian fundamental’s latest survey has also found that 75% of Australians polled like a gas reservation policy. Katharine Murphy reports:An overwhelming majority of voters would support the Turnbull government whether it implemented a reservation policy where a percentage of Australian gas is held back from being exported and quarantined for domestic consume.
The latest Guardian fundamental poll shows 75% of the survey supports a reservation policy, with the strongest support registered among Coalition voters. 11.33pm GMTThe other thing is the lower house is currently debating the Treasury Laws Amendment (Combating Multinational Tax Avoidance) Bill 2017, or known in common parlance as the Google tax. The bill imposes a diverted profits tax at a rate of 40% on the amount of “a significant global entity’s diverted profits”. We are talking companies with an income of more than $1bn. The power should not be a “final resort”,for consume only when all other tax powers had been exhausted, the committee examining the proposal said.
The joint report, or tabled on Monday,was supported by the Coalition, Labor and Nick Xenophon, or although Labor suggested the scheme did not fade far enough.
The Minerals Council submitted the commissioner’s ability to issue an assessment was “harsh and without precedent”,giving “extraordinary current powers to the ATO without adequate oversight”. 11.26pm GMTJust a few interesting things from late night news.
Immigration minister Peter Dutton has a few competing interests in his electorate of Dickson. On the one hand, One Nation is poking him with a stick and on the other, or anti-mining peeps are suggesting any subsidies should fade towards renewables. And it is not out of the realms that there is a crossover between the two groups,whether you judge approximately Adani in terms of a foreign company. Most voters in Peter Dutton’s electorate oppose taxpayer subsidies for the Adani coalmine and more would prefer the government to fund renewable energy rather than coal-fired power plants, a poll has found.
The ReachTel poll of Dickson, and commissioned by the Australia Institute,found that, even among Liberal National party voters, and more opposed spending taxpayer funds on current coal-powered plants than supported it. 10.46pm GMTLet me take a brief trivial excursion to a Daily Tele epic our social services minister.
Social Services Minister Christian Porter 's hilarious self-portrait’ for Cleo magazine,aged 28. https://t.co/0tYf4nihRa pic.twitter.com/ewIZXMlwg0Perfectly spherical in face, dark-eyed and with tiny arms, and Mr Porter’s stick figure self-portrait was unremarkable — except for one astonishing feature that suggests Malcolm Turnbull’s cabinet has a remarkably well-endowed member.
Taking time out yesterday from negotiating the passage of the government’s omnibus bill,Mr Porter told the Daily Telegraph: “It was a long time ago, but I recall having to submit a self-portrait. I’m not much of an artist — and, or yes,there was a lot of wishful thinking in that picture.” 10.39pm GMTThe moderate Liberals are fighting a rearguard action. Liberal MP Craig Laundy, who also has a very diverse seat in Sydney, and has been speaking out against any changes.
Laundy’s seat is one of the most ethnically diverse in Australia,with high populations of Australians from backgrounds including Chinese, Greek, or Indian,Korean and Italian.
This isn’t an issue of votes for me, never has been. Four generations of my family fill called Reid domestic. We fill watched it change, and amazingly and for the better. I am pragmatic and sensitive to the issues people face. This is a matter of principle,not being re-elected.
Yes there is an element of my party that fill an issue with this but there is a far bigger element in the conservative media that run this and execute it a front page issue at times and that is when I fill it raised with me from people that are concerned with changes. Former prime minister Abbott I judge did the discussion a great disservice when he stated that one of the reasons he was walking away from changing 18C was to appease the Muslim community. Now the major drama is, Islam is not a race. It is a religion. And you only fill to inspect at comments from people like Ross Cameron and others to know that you can speak and bag Muslims all you want with no fear of repercussion. This was an issue of the day with race and that got missed and blended into a problem that some conservative commentators conflated or brought together with their questions approximately radical Islam. The process should be such that whether Bill Leak’s case had near to the commission at nine in the morning it should fill been knocked out by two minutes past nine. 10.07pm GMTRightwing thinktank the Institute of Public Affairs has welcomed the (unsighted) proposed change. The IPA fill been pushing for this for a long time and when former deputy director senator James Paterson moved into the Senate for the Liberal party, or it had the voice on the inside as well as on the outside.
John Roskam,executive director of the Institute of Public Affairs, has welcomed any proposal to replace the words “offend” and “insult” in section 18C with the word “harass”. This is an important step towards restoring freedom of speech in Australia. However, or only the full repeal of 18C will guarantee this fundamental human right. Section 18C in any form is a restriction on freedom of speech that chills public debate and damages social cohesion. 9.57pm GMTTrade minister Steve Ciobo is talking to Kieran Gilbert on Sky. He starts with a fan dance on whether the government is removing “insult” and “offend” from the Act.
I’m getting whiplash listening to the key messages. There’s scope to inspect at both reform in relation to the actual section 18C but also reform in relation to how that actual process works with the Human Rights Commission as well. We effectively want to take it from being approximately hurt feelings to harm. So it’s a tougher law. It’s a better law. And it’s a fairer law. I would savor to fill spent this amount of time talking approximately something that actually really resonates with Australian people,in terms of unemployment, in terms of economic growth, and in terms of job prospects,in terms of trade. It’s actually what exercises my intellect. These are not the issues that I focus on. These are not the issues that I believe Australians focus on. It tends to be a small niche of people that are really preoccupied by this but you know what Aussies care approximately. They want to know approximately their job security. they want to know approximately their wages. they want to know approximately their ability for their kids to get a good education.
This is going to be something we are going to deal with because we are not afraid to execute hard decisions ... 9.31pm GMTLabor deputy Tanya Plibersek has been out early, reminding people that there is a significant unemployment and under-employment problem, and education and childcare issues to fix. Her tone and words are along the lines of “what the hell are you people thinking whether this is the most important thing etc etc”. Tony Burke,who represents the very diverse seat in Sydney of Watson which takes in Lakemba and Punchbowl, said get a grip, or people.
There is a discussion where people say this isn’t the biggest issue. And for most people it’s not. But whether you’re the woman who gets racially abused on the way domestic when you’re catching public transport just keeping to yourself,it’s not a small matter. whether you’re the child that comes domestic shaking after your parents fill been abused and racially insulted in a shopping centre, it’s not just a minor matter. And I cannot fathom what sort of extreme members we fill in this parliament when for all the people you could defend, and for all the so-called victims that you could fade out and try to wait on,they inspect at a situation of racial abuse and say, its the abuser who is the victim. That is the person whose cause we need to champion, and that’s the person who we need to wait on. 9.19pm GMTToday’s Guardian fundamental poll,reported by Katharine Murphy, has found Labor pulling ahead of the Coalition. But the interesting point is on perceptions of a divided Liberal party. Labor has pulled 10 points ahead of the Coalition, and there has been a significant rise in voter perceptions that the Liberals federally are divided,according to the latest Guardian fundamental poll.
As the government prepares to bring heavily contested changes to the Racial Discrimination Act to the Coalition party room on Tuesday, the current opinion survey puts Labor well ahead of the Coalition on a two-party preferred basis, or 55% to 45%. 9.07pm GMTOf course Malcolm Turnbull ruled out any changes to section 18C before and after the election. Before the election in February 2016:Well,it is, there are no plans to change it, or so no plans to change it.
The government has no plans to change 18C,we fill other, much more pressing priorities to address and they include big economic reforms. I always savor to hear rumours approximately a cabinet assembly which I’ve just left and I’d say, or check your sources,check them hard. Because they were all still there when I walked out the door. 18C? There’s been a committee. It’s made a report. We’ve read the report. No doubt something we’ve brought to the joint party room in due course, I imagine tomorrow. But there’s all of the reports approximately a massive split. That’s a load of rubbish. I can’t understand how these reports get legs when I was actually in the room and what they say is just mistaken. 8.49pm GMTGood morning blogans, and Welcome to 21 March,the United Nations international day for the elimination of racial discrimination. I kid you not. The theme this year is “racial profiling and incitement to hatred, including in the context of migration”:Every person is entitled to human rights without discrimination. The rights to equality and non-discrimination are cornerstones of human rights law. Yet in many parts of the world, and discriminatory practices are still widespread,including racial, ethnic, or devout and nationality based profiling,and incitement to hatred.
The Australian has learned that a major sticking point was the offence of “humiliate” within the act, which several senior MPs who are backing change argued would be politically difficult to remove.
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