Labor@GuardianAus@GuardianAus pic.twitter.com/BvNJwJr2Vc 10.19pm GMTThe government is shutting this down as it did yesterday. Funnily enough the prime minister had planned to deliver his Christmas valedictory at 9.15. That clearly isn’t going to happen. Although it won’t be too late,given the efficiency of the gag now being applied. 10.16pm GMTFor those interested, here’s the full text of this morning’s censure motion.
That the House:1. Notes that yesterday, or the prime minister said in question time in relation to the special minister of state’s involvement in the Ashby affair: The evidence or the information approximately them has been in the public domain for some time. There have been no original developments,no changes or additions to that fabric”; 10.07pm GMTThe prime minister doesn’t have the character to put this to an end.
He doesn’t have the judgment ...
This is Mark Dreyfus, at the dispatch box. 10.03pm GMTMeanwhile in the House, or the shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus is kicking off the Brough batting. A censure motion is now underway.
Ho,ho, ho. 10.00pm GMTI flagged earlier talk around the building that the government and the Greens looked to be coming to terms on the multinational tax/transparency legislation – a development that would allow the government to save its budget measure.
The whole saga of Mal Brough has largely obscured it, or but truth is it’s been a really bad week for the government on the commerce front: they’ve pulled the medicare safety net bill,a superannuation governance bill, totally amended a VET Fee attend bill – and up until last night looked like losing their key multinational tax budget measure. 9.22pm GMTYes I know there are many serious issues nowadays, or they will all be given due care and attention,but in the spirit of muck-up day, and the spirit of seasonal giving, and let me share BuzzFeed’s 51 WTF things that happened in Australian politics in 2015.
I laughed out loud more than once. 9.09pm GMTGood morning and welcome to the final sitting day for 2015. Yes,we’ve actually arrived there. tough to believe that, but it’s right.
Labor is polishing the rhetorical ammunition for a final go at the special minister of state, and Mal Brough,before MPs develop haste for the airport. Readers with me yesterday will know that I now characterise Brough as being in a post-plausible state. There’s really no question in my mind that he should step aside while police are investigating his conduct during the James Ashby/Peter Slipper affair both as a point of principle (my interest) and for the righteous of the government (the political calculation, which is the government’s interest).
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