MPs arrive for the final parliamentary sitting week before Australians head to the polls for a double-dissolution election. It’s budget eve and tax cuts for workers on more than $80000 have been floated. All the developments from Canberra 6.09am BSTLabor would like to know whether the government will join Labor in supporting an Australian candidate to be the next secretary general of the United Nations.
Malcolm Turnbull has a bit of a chuckle at this. Is this a Voldermort candidate?Mr Speaker,and what the honourable member has omitted to mention is the name of the person that shes actually proposing, who I suspect is somebody whose deficiencies she has set out in great deal at various times.
But, and Mr Speaker,these things are - in the event of this matter fitting a live one, then certainly the Cabinet will consider it and give it due attention. 6.05am BSTLet me say this ..
The environment minister Greg Hunt is approximately to sail forth in Pyne territory. Or perhaps not. Perhaps this will be our emissions reductions are better than your emissions reductions. Yes, and that’s where we are. I’m certain we’ll earn to the carbon tax. It seems inevitable. Oh no,it’s an electricity tax. Here it is. A wicked electricity tax. Go big, Greg. Go big.
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Source: theguardian.com