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Barnaby Joyce says if the Nationals leadership was offered he 'would take it' – as it happened

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Barnaby Joyce, who says ‘it is faux modesty to say if you are offered a job, you’ll turn it down’. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

So Melissa Price lives to fight another day.

Which will be tomorrow. When she is the feature of question time.

We will be back to cover that, and everything else bright and early tomorrow morning.

It’s the last day of the joint sitting. Next week is just the House of Representatives, but we will have the results of the Wentworth byelection to play with.

Plus, the labour force figures are due, Gareth Hutchens tells me. So we’ll get to see what unemployment did in September.

A big thank you to the Guardian’s brains trust, both here and behind the scenes, cleaning up my too quick fingers and too slow brain, and of course, to you for reading and following along with us.

Rest up and as always – take care of you.

The result of the division to suspend standing orders is tied

71 to 71

Tony Smith uses his casting vote: usually it would be that the motion doesn’t have a majority and he wouldn’t create one, but he declares the motion to suspend standing orders lost without casting his vote, because it doesn’t have an absolute majority.

A division is called.

Unless someone from the government doesn’t turn up (hey, it’s happened before) the motion will fail.

Which just means we will have more of the Melissa Price hour in question time tomorrow!

Although don’t rule out a late ‘correction’ of the record

And if you haven’t seen Anne Davies story on the Wentworth polling as yet:

The Liberal party is in serious danger of losing the seat of Wentworth this weekend according to a new ReachTel poll that shows Liberal candidate Dave Sharma’s primary vote has slumped to 32.7%. The vote of high profile independent and local GP Kerryn Phelps has surged to 25.8%.

Labor’s Tim Murray has also increased his share of the primary vote to 21.6%, compared with 19.5% in a ReachTel poll two weeks ago. The Greens’ Dominic Wy Kanak has 9.1% while independent Licia Heath has 5.6%.

The poll commissioned by Greenpeace did not attempt to calculate the two-party preferred result but did ask about preferences. Ominously for the Liberals, the result is in line with their own internal polling reported in the Australian this morning.

It had Sharma’s vote “in the mid 30s” and Phelps “well into the 20s”.

Alex Turnbull has switched his support in the Wentworth race from Labor’s Tim Murray to independent Kerryn Phelps, saying it makes more sense:

Shockingly, the government is against the motion.

Greg Hunt is speaking up for the government. He says he won’t be lecutured by the Labor party given its mistakes, including pink batts.

“I 100 % disagree with what he has said was the conversation,” Melissa Price told parliament about what she had said to the former president of Kiribati.

Tony Burke said she has left herself “no wriggle room” now that the conversation has been confirmed, on the record, by others who were there.

Updated

The motion:

That the House:

1. notes:

a) in the House today, the environment minister categorically denied reports that last night she said to the former president of Kiribati: “I know why you’re here. It is for the cash. For the Pacific it’s always about the cash. I have my chequebook here. How much do you want?”;

b) however, multiple sources have confirmed to journalists that the minister did in fact say those words;

c) the minister also told the House today during question time that only “a small amount of money” could be spent on administration under the government’s almost half a billion dollar Great Barrier Reef grant and that administration costs were capped at 5%;

d) however, under the government’s grant agreement up to 10% of the entire grant can be spent on administration by the foundation itself and a further 10% of any grant money provided to subcontractors can be spent on administration as well. This means that more than $80m can be spent on administration; and

e) immediately before providing this incorrect information, the minister was handed a note by the prime minister which she appeared to rely on during her answer when she falsely claimed that administration costs were capped at 5% – an amount $60m lower than what is the case; and

2. therefore, calls on the environment minister to:

a) attend the House to correct her answers as she is required to do under the prime minister’s ministerial standards; and

b) advise the House whether any of the incorrect information she provided was as a result of the note handed to her by the prime minister.

Updated

Labor attempts to move motion on Melissa Price for 'misleading' parliament

Tony Burke has walked into the House of Reps in an effort to suspend standing orders over what Labor says is Melissa Price had “misleading” information.

He is focusing on the wrong answer to the Great Barrier Reef fund. And wants to know if it had “anything to do” with the note Scott Morrison handed her, before she answered 5% to the question of – how much can the Great Barrier Reef Foundation spend on admin.

Updated

Simon Birmingham told David Speers on Sky that the decision to have a discussion about moving our Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem had been agreed upon by cabinet.

“Yes,” he said in answer to Speers’s question on that.

On Tuesday, Scott Morrison seemed to suggest he would be talking to cabinet about it – because it was only a discussion, and not a change in policy:

So Australia, and I as prime minister, am open to that suggestion. What I’ll do in the months ahead is obviously confer with cabinet colleagues. I will obviously take the opportunity during the upcoming summit season to confer with other leaders around the world and gauge their perception about this and to make the case that Dave [Sharma] himself has made about whether this can actually provide an alternative way forward and aid the cause that I believe all of us are interested in pursuing. So, no decision has been made in regarding the recognition of a capital or the movement of an embassy, and I should be clear – those two things, they are the two issues.

Updated

The Senate debate on removing discrimination law exemptions for religious schools is underway.

The Greens leader, Richard Di Natale, said Australians were “horrified” to learn religious schools can fire teachers and expel students on grounds of sexuality and gender, and this should be fixed. The government leader in the Senate, Mathias Cormann, confirmed the government will not support the bill, because it does not agree on removing the exemption for teachers.

Labor senator Jacinta Collins also made some very interesting remarks about the need to respect the right of religious schools to be run in accordance with their beliefs, and parents to have their children educated “in accordance with their religious convictions”.

Collins said that schools expect teachers and staff to “respect the ethos, values and principles of the particular faith and not to act in ways that undermine schools’ mission”.

Collins said that while religious exemptions to discrimination law are “out of step with community expectations” legislators need to ensure that schools are “positively entitled to operate in accordance with their belief and mission”. While the Greens bill cures the former problem, it only “addresses one side of the equation” by doing nothing on the latter.

Here’s the kicker:

“We would also like to see in legislation a recognition that religious schools are entitled to require employees to act in their roles in a way that upholds the ethos and values of that faith; and this requirement can be taken into account when a person is first employed and in the course of their employment.”

This sounds like Labor is giving a red light to discrimination on the grounds of sexuality but a green light to positively selecting people that uphold a school’s ethos. I’m seeking clarification on that, and how it might be achieved.

Updated

Labor, the Greens and enough of the crossbench are already against the government’s “life time ban” on Nauru and Manus Island asylum seekers to keep the bill in purgatory, but New Zealand is also against it.

The New Zealand Herald reports foreign minister and sometimes acting prime minister Winston Peters says it would create two tiers of NZ citizenship, which, obviously, NZ is against.

From the NZ Herald story:

Peters said that would, in effect, create one group of New Zealand citizens that could travel and work in Australia, and another group that could not.

“We’re going to have to consider whether or not, as a result of our 2013 commitment (to offer to take 150 refugees from Nauru), we end up with people who are second-class citizens in New Zealand.

“Do we, in our endeavour to be humanitarian about it, end up with a substandard level of citizenship, which is not what this country is about?”

Updated

The Greens have attempted to strip the former governor general Peter Hollingworth of his pension, after survivors of institutional childhood abuse called for it because of how he handled abuse claims in the Anglican church.

That part of the motion was defeated and Rachel Siewert said the Senate was “ignoring the wishes of survivors”.

“While the Senate supported clauses a to c of my motion, including the clause expressing concern about the current situation, the key clause (d) calling for amendments to the Act were not supported by either of the major parties,” she said.

“Survivors have approached all parties and requested this change and we need to listen to them.

“It is deeply concerning that governors general who have lost the confidence of the public and may have acted illegally or brought the office into disrepute, should continue to receive government-funded payments of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

“The Greens will introduce a private members bill to amend the governors general act.

“I will continue to work with the community on this issue.”

Updated

Fairfax has updated David Crowe’s story:

'If it came up, I would take it' – Barnaby Joyce

Barnaby Joyce speaking on the Nationals leadership would not be reassuring if you were Michael McCormack or his supporters:

“Can we just deal with that? I am not surprised that journalists like yourself [David Speers on Sky] are asking me questions like that and come up and see me about it. That is not a surprise.

“... That is what journalists do, generally.

“... I have always said that if anything was offered to me, I would take it. It is faux modesty to say if you are offered a job, you’ll turn it down. That is garbage, otherwise there wouldn’t be a cabinet minister, there wouldn’t be a leader, there wouldn’t be a deputy leader.

“... If it came up, and it was offered to me, I would take it, but I am not touting for it, I am not collecting the numbers for it.”

Updated

So why was the answer wrong, according to Burke?

Well, according to the government, the answer was up to 19% can be spent on admin costs (about 10% of the fund on administration and about 10% on sub-contracts)

So that would be about $84 million, on that measure.

The foundation itself has admitted that last year, the cost of administration to fundraising ratio was 19.7%

And the agreement allows for administration and scaling up and subcontract performance, meaning a funding recipient subcontractor can use 10% of the funds it has been given for its own admin.

Mark Butler:

Melissa Price in the parliament this afternoon tried to deny this conversation took place, or that she said these words.

Pat Dodson has put them in writing and they were witnessed by a number of other people at the dinner table as well.

What we have here is a situation where Melissa Price has made a series of appalling comments to the former president of Kiribati, and instead of facing up to those comments, apologising and withdrawing them, has sought to deny them in the parliament of Australia.

This is reminiscent of Peter Dutton’s boom-mic moment when he was caught laughing at the fact that our Pacific island neighbours have seawater lapping at their doorsteps, because of the consequences of climate change. It says everything you need to know, not only about our government’s attitude to climate change but this government’s attitude to some of our closest neighbours.

Tony Burke:

If there is one thing that an environment minister should be across in this government, it is what happening with the money that is going to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation. This was the largest single removal of money from the commonwealth environment in history, leaving the commonwealth and going to a small, private foundation.

Melissa Price was asked twice how much of that money is spent on administration. And the answer she gave was wrong. Factually wrong. First of all she claimed it was a small amount of money, and then she said it was 5%. When you are coming off the base of half a billion dollars, 5% is hard to argue as a small amount of money.

Updated

Mark Butler and Tony Burke have held a press conference to say that Melissa Price may have “misled the parliament” when she denied the account of Patrick Dodson about what happened when she met the former president of Kiribati Anote Tong, by denying Dodson’s account in question time.

For those who missed it, this has come from Fairfax’s David Crowe’s story about a conversation Dodson, Tong and Price had when they met by chance in a restaurant overnight.

From Crowe’s story:

One witness to the conversation told Fairfax Media that Ms Price discussed a possible meeting with Mr Tong and then made a remark about demands for cash.

Ms Price asked Mr Tong why he was in Canberra and was told by Senator Dodson that the former Kiribati leader was in Australia to talk about climate change and was hoping to have a meeting with her.

“Is it about the cash?” Ms Price replied, according to the witness.

“It’s always about the cash. I’ve got my chequebook over there. How much do you want?”

Price has denied the conversation.

Updated

Then we get David Littleproud talking about all those people sitting around kitchen tables.

I do not know anyone who has time to sit around a kitchen table and talk anymore, but apparently I am hanging out in the wrong electorates.

Question time ends and we all breathe a sigh of relief.

Mark Dreyfus asks about this tweet:

And then also this story in the Australian

“How can the prime minister possibly claim that the government voting for a motion that contained a white supremacist slogan was just an administrative error, when it was repeated [in a] tweet yesterday afternoon by the member for Dawson. Has the minister sought an explanation for [Senators Stoker and Paterson] who reportedly yesterday attended a conference with groups with links to white supremacist groups. Was this also just an administrative error?”

The question is ruled out of order.

Updated

Emissions reduction fund update

Ged Kearney to ...

MELISSA PRICE.

Kearney: “Will the government be providing any additional money to the emissions reduction fund, and if so, when?”

Price:

As people will know, an excellent policy that was worth over $2 billion, we’re down to $250 million. Of course you would expect a responsible government is looking at a full suite of policies, which would include the ERM. That is not a matter for me to talk about today, it is a matter for cabinet.

Updated

Trent Zimmerman actually just uttered the words “why he believes in delivering central transport services” and I have never felt more like stabbing my pen through my hand.

No, wait, I spoke too soon. Listening to Alan Tudge deliver the answer is the new pen-through-the-hand benchmark #deathtodixers

Peter Dutton gives us his dire predictions of direness, but it is October, so I guess he’s just being festive.

Then Melissa Price is back! A star is born, ladies and gentlemen.

Mark Butler:

Last week when asked how Australia would meet its Paris carbon reduction pollution targets she said it would build 1 billion trees. Does the Minister plan on sharing this environmental breakthrough with other nations and other amazing forestry breakthroughs to avoid real action on climate change”

Price: (Who seems just as surprised to be the star of the hour as everyone else)

I’m thrilled to be getting so many questions on the environment! We love to talk about the environment on this side because we are doing a good job, people can trust us, they know they can’t trust you. I would say growing 1 billion trees, people may have noticed going back a few weeks, the agricultural minister announced the new forestry plan that is what I was referring to in the media.

Should I make an apology for focusing on getting electricity prices down?

We can look after the environment and the economy at the same time, we are doing this in a responsible way while growing the economy, the Australian people know they can trust us to do this, but you can’t trust those opposite, they are talking about a 45% emissions target, 50% renewable energy target, you cannot trust them.”

Marise Payne sounds like she is just LOVING life at the moment.

She’s asked in the Senate about David Crowe’s story and gives the world’s shortest answers:

The minister has contacted Senator Dodson to say she disagrees with his interpretation of the conversation and has also contacted the guest to ensure there was no misunderstanding.

Updated

Christopher Pyne gets up for a dixer and Nick Champion gets thrown out for yelling “Send in Sgt York” and then leaves saying something about “General Pyne”, which sends Labor into hysterics, because, and no disrespect to the member, the bar for laughs in pretty low in this chamber.

Then Melissa Price is back! I guess I won’t be forgetting who she is now.

Mark Butler:

The latest data confirms that under the government’s policies carbon pollution will rise all the way to 2030 and the government will come nowhere near the Paris climate reduction targets for that year. Does the minister agree with the prime minister [that] Australia will meet its Paris commitments?

Melissa Price:

I thank the member for his question. Australia will meet its Kyoto targets, we are on the way to meeting the 2020 target. [Paris, PARIS, yells Labor]

Australia is on target to meet its 2030 target. We have got the full suite of climate policy [from] back in 2017; the climate review of policies said we had the right [mix] –emissions reduction fund, we recently announced a forestry plan – we have the policies. We will meet our targets.

(I mean, the experts don’t think we will, but what would they know. It’s only their life’s work).

Updated

Environment minister quizzed on "chequebook" comment to Kiribari president

Mark Butler to Melissa Price:

I refer to reports last night when she was told the former prime minister of Kiribati was in Australia to deliver a message on climate change, she told the former president I know why you are here, you are here for the cash, I have my cheque-book here, how much do you want? Does the minister deny saying those words to the former president of one of the nations most affected by climate change and sea level change in the world?

That would be this story from Fairfax’s David Crowe:

Ms Price asked Mr Tong why he was in Canberra and was told by Senator Dodson that the former Kiribati leader was in Australia to talk about climate change and was hoping to have a meeting with her.

“Is it about the cash?” Ms Price replied, according to the witness.

“It’s always about the cash. I’ve got my chequebook over there. How much do you want?”

A spokesman for Ms Price denied this account and said the minister told Mr Tong that Australia cared very deeply about the Pacific, before suggesting they set up a meeting at some point.

Price:

Today I received a letter from Senator Dodson with his recollection of a conversation. I was very concerned [the president was part of a meeting which] was a gathering at a restaurant where I stumbled across this group, and went over to introduce myself. I was with Senator Dodson who I classified as a friend of mine. I am very concerned that in some way the president has been offended in any way. I believe he is not here any more.

I’ve spoken to Senator Dodson today and asked him if he was able to provide them with a contact number for [the] president because I 100 % disagree with what he has said is the conversation. I see the Pacific as a very good friend and neighbour to Australia, that is exactly what I said to president Tong last night. Thank you.

Updated

Tony Burke to Melissa Price

(Yes, I did just have to look up who the environment minister was)

“I refer to the government’s almost $0.5 billion grant to Great Barrier Reef Foundation. How much of that money can be spent on administration and scaling up activities?”

Price:

A good opportunity to talk about the reef, Mr Speaker. We know that this $440 million reef grant to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, we all know that the reef requires an enormous amount of effort in terms of the science needed, and there is an enormous amount of work that is being done in terms of the ... There is a considerable amount of work that is being done already by the foundation, we have already identified $200 million with respect of water, a significant amount of money to research more broadly, a significant amount of money to resilience, and also a small amount of money with respect to administration.

There’s a dixer, in which Josh Frydenberg tries out some new words: (“socialist panacea”) and we all get a small laugh, and then we are back to Burke and Price.

Burke:

“I refer to the previous answer when she said only a small amount of money will be used for administration. Can the minister please tell the house what that small amount of money is?”

Price: “The number is 5%.”

“Good answer,” says someone from the government side.

I mean, it was an answer, so I guess in that way it’s good?

Updated

Over in the Senate, Marise Payne is doing her best not to answer questions about the process that led to the “discussion” Australia is having over its Israeli embassy:

I am not going to comment on the details of the prime minister’s exchanges with his international counterparts in that way. What I will say is that consultation has been engaged in between Australia and a number of other international parties, of course. Again, Senator Moore misrepresents the position by asserting a complete change in policy. What the prime minister has indicated he wants to do is to have a discussion, to examine these extremely important issues of international policy. Those opposite seem incapable of participating in a discussion like that, incapable, they are only focused on process. They have no interest in Australia’s foreign policy positions whatsoever … based on the sorts of questions that they’ve been asking. I would remind them that there are those opposite who have also canvassed these same issues, including Mr Danby, including Mr Danby in May this year, who suggested that it may be appropriate to look at the location of the embassy. Some perhaps are open to a discussion but, clearly, not all.

Updated

Adam Bandt has today’s crossbench question:

Kids need to grow up in a stable loving environment. Under your watch, refugee children in Nauru are in crisis. When a 10-year-old boy repeatedly tried to kill himself, your government refused to transfer him to Australia for treatment until a court ordered it.

As the emergency grows to catastrophe, an Australian senior medical officer was arrested and deported from Nauru.

Why are you slowly killing these children?

Are you seriously arguing threatening these children’s lives as some kind of necessary evil? Acceptable because you want to send a broader message. Why [don’t you] accept the advice of the doctors [that] it is never in the interest of a child to lock them up until they die?

Christopher Pyne says he overstepped bounds with the “why are you slowly killing these children” and Bandt rephrases it to ‘why is the government slowly killing these children’ before withdrawing that part.

Scott Morrison:

Our record is that [we went about] improving the facilities that were opened by Labor when they were in office, and we will continue to treat every single case based on the medical advice that is received and transfers undertaken on the basis of that medical advice, and will continue to pursue that practice in each and every case.

Then we get some Peter Dutton. What a treat.

Dutton:

As the prime minister outlined, firstly there are about 65 medical professionals on Nauru at the moment. [Not true, says Bandt.]

The Australian government has provided some hundreds of millions of dollars to medical services on Nauru. In fact there have now been around about 200 children who have come as part of family units, where a father or mother may have come down to Australia for medical assistance and they have come as part of that family unit, or indeed they have come down for medical assistance themselves.

So there are many cases, Mr Speaker, where the Australian government has provided support.

They make the point that we have been able to negotiate an arrangement with the United States – now 435 people have left Nauru, and from Manus, people have arrived as part of the 50,800 boats when Labor was last in government – those people have formed part of what I hope will be a bigger number heading off to the United States, and we continue to work on a number of cases, as we are, as the list of immigration is on a daily basis in relation to this matter.

As the prime minister rightly points out, we take the advice of medical experts, we have a look at the ...

[“You don’t follow it, you only do it when the court tells you do,” says Bandt. “It’s true,” calls out someone from Labor.]

Dutton:

Well, again, Mr Speaker, I think Australians [want them to] better stick to the facts because if they don’t, they [will be] led by people like the honourable member [with the question] and what results, as the prime minister detailed before, could easily be repeated if that man is ever involved ...[he points at Labor but runs out of time].

Updated

Michael McCormack also gets the next dixer.

Moving on.

Bill Shorten to Scott Morrison:

Can the prime minister confirm the reports today that he first informed the president of Indonesia of his decision to overturn 70 years by bipartisan foreign policy by text message? Is the prime Minister so panicked about Wentworth he is willing to make the most cynically timed foreign policy decision in living memory? Why is the prime minister so reckless with our foreign policy?

Morrison:

Australians will know this about me, what I believe today is what I will believe next week, and a month from now, Mr Speaker.

When I went to Israel with the now leader of the opposition, only one of us remembers the lessons of that trip. The Liberal and National parties, we stand with Israel, I don’t know what the Labor party thinks any more. Some of their members, the member for Sydney, thinks Israel is a rogue state, Mr Speaker. She … has said this as a member of the House of Representatives, and called Israel a rogue state.

Now, I don’t believe Israel is a rogue state, nobody on this side of the house believes Israel is a rogue state, Mr Speaker. I don’t know what the bipartisanship is the leader of the Labor party is talking about when it comes to misplaced support for the state of Israel, I don’t know what that bipartisanship is.

“You’re a joke, Scott, you’re a joke,” comes the interjections.

Morrison:

When I listen to the question from the leader of the opposition, next week after the Wentworth byelection will the leader of the Labor party tell us his views on Jerusalem – the issue of Iran – will you tell us this week or next week? He wants to talk about process this week. My answer on those questions are the same today as they will be next week. He seems to have forgotten the fact earlier this morning, in the general assembly of the United Nations, Australia voted no for Palestine to chair the GE 77.

I haven’t heard anything from the opposition about this. I don’t know what the leader of the Labor party thinks on these questions any more, I don’t know what he believes in, Mr Speaker. I can say I’m not sure I have ever known what he believes in – depends on what part of the country he is in – you don’t need an atlas to understand what he thinks and what he says – you also need a calendar, it changes from day today today.

The Liberal and the National parties’ view, when it comes to a two-state solution, is very clear. The position when it comes to support of Israel is very, very clear. When it comes to the Labor party… you never know what you are going to get.

Updated

Joel Fitzgibbon to Michael McCormack:

Yesterday in question time he said, ‘I will never ever background a journalist’. Does he stand by that answer? Is what Ray Hadley said today – the office of the current deputy prime minister was the source of many of the leaks against the former deputy prime minister – true? People in glass houses should not throw stones.

“WHAT ABOUT THE FARMERS JOEL,” yells David Littleproud, while Labor backbenchers give their best impression of catching someone k-i-s-s-i-n-g behind a tree in the school yard.

There’s some argy bargy about whether the question is in order but, eventually, the part of ‘do you stand by your answer yesterday’ is ruled in order.

McCormack:

You said more, we are providing more infrastructure (paraphrased, obvs)

Tony Smith: “I can’t see how the answer is relevant now.”

McCormack: I stand by everything I have said in this house, including more for infrastructure ... (also paraphrased)

Yet another masterful performance by a politician who continues to astound with just how quick he is on his feet, is what Barnaby Joyce’s eyes appear to say. My eye reading is a bit rusty.

Updated

Question time begins

Bill Shorten to Scott Morrison on ... government dysfunction.

Ding, ding, ding!

I mean, seven weeks is a good run in Australian politics these days.

Shorten:

Can the prime minister confirm that he and his government on Monday supported a white supremacist motion in the Senate, on Tuesday upended 70 years of foreign policy, and on Wednesday the former deputy prime minister is doing their best to uproot the current deputy prime minister? How can the prime minister claim that a vote for the Liberals in Wentworth is a vote for stability, when he still can’t explain why Malcolm Turnbull is no longer the prime minister?

Morrison:

The leader of the opposition really does need to grow up, Mr Speaker. He really does.

There are important issues that we are dealing with on a daily basis – the economy, the drought, the residential aged care inquiry.

We are working to ensure that we have a strong economy that can support Medicare, that can provide affordable medicines, that can keep Australians safe, and all the leader of the opposition wants to do is charge around in this building, in the bubble of politics, Mr Speaker.

What the leader of the opposition is demonstrating to the Australian people is just that he is just another politician in a suit, Mr Speaker. [He says this while wearing a suit, himself].

This is leader of the opposition who the Australian people have no idea what he believes, they have no idea what he stands for, all they know, Mr Speaker, is that this leader of the opposition is about one thing – himself.

[We are great at policy, yadda, yadda, yadda]

[Morrison, some time later]:

I would suggest of the Opposition to get out of the gutter of politics and focus on issues that are of national interest to all Australians, Mr Speaker. On this side you get [discussions] on issues of foreign policy, Australians deciding the issues of … affecting this society. On the other side of the house we have the member for Sydney hinting Israel is a rogue state, Mr Speaker.

[Something, something, shouting]

Updated

Ahead of question time, Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten will honour Ian Kiernan, who has died, aged 78.

Kiernan was an environmentalist who spearheaded Clean Up Australia Day and a round-the-world sailor.

He also helped tackle a protester who was firing (what was later found to be) a starting gun as he ran towards Prince Charles at an Australia Day event where he was honoured as Australian of the Year.

Updated

We are about to roll into question time.

My feed is still not great, so I’ll be heading into the chamber– so hit me up with your predictions while I cross this giant bloody building.

Time to take a leaf from Canada’s policy book?

ICRC president speech

Peter Maurer, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, delivered his speech to the National Press Club just a few moments ago.

Here’s a taste:

Let me briefly specify six trends of particular concern to us:

One, wars are lasting much longer than they used to 20 years ago.

The ICRC – initially working on short-term emergency situations – is increasingly active in many places around the world for decades. In our ten largest operations, we have been on the ground for an average of 36 years.

Two, wars are more often fought in highly populated urban areas, and when high powered explosive weapons are used, large numbers of civilians are at risk of death, injury, but also of losing their infrastructure – water systems, electricity, and jobs.

These protracted, urban conflicts impact the basic health, water and sanitation systems, causing long-term, systemic impacts.

Three, increasingly the root causes of violence are unclear and difficult to address – they are often a tangled web of politically-motivated violence, terrorism and disproportionate reaction by states, inter-community and social violence, which often go hand-in-hand with economic crime. This also defies traditional legal concepts (like IHL, criminal and anti-terrorism legislation) and challenges us with complex overlap between the legal frameworks.

Four, armed actors are more numerous, more radical but also less political and less structured.

Our research shows that more than six times the number of armed groups have been created over the last six years than during the six decades before that.

Today only a third of conflicts are fought between two belligerent parties, and a fifth of conflicts have 10 or more parties involved. In a city like Taiz, Yemen, our colleagues recently counted around 40 armed groups, all of them in control of some territory, population and authority, making consensual humanitarian approaches and negotiation particularly challenging.

This makes core aspects of ICRC’s work – engagement with belligerents on IHL and access to victims – acutely more complicated and problematic.

Five, wars often involve partners, allies and coalitions – leading to a dilution of responsibility, fragmentation of chains of command and an unchecked flow of weapons.

There is also a trend of denying responsibility for IHL violations, including for direct or proxy partners – or of passing responsibility to someone else down the line.

This only increases the climate of impunity and ultimately causes yet more suffering.

And finally, as you know, we are on the brink of a fourth industrial revolution with increasingly sophisticated and more deadly weapons, but also the potential to harness technology to find new ways to provide humanitarian assistance.

In this environment we can’t afford to stand still when the gap between needs of populations affected by war and violence and our ability to respond gets bigger by the day.

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The Senate is likely to begin debate on discrimination protections for LGBT teachers under a Greens plan to suspend standing orders with Labor and crossbench support on Wednesday.

The tactic to force debate on Richard Di Natale’s private senator’s bill means the issue will be considered before the Wentworth byelection on Saturday, despite Scott Morrison refusing to give bipartisan support for ending religious exemptions to discrimination law for teachers and school staff.

The move will add pressure on Morrison, who already faces a divided party. The deputy Liberal leader, Josh Frydenberg, Wentworth candidate Dave Sharma and Liberal senator Dean Smith – the architect of the successful marriage equality legislation – have called to protect teachers.

Labor and crossbench senators, including Derryn Hinch, Tim Storer and Centre Alliance, support ending the exemptions for religious schools and the Greens expect them to support the suspension of standing orders after question time on Wednesday.

Labor and Centre Alliance’s Rex Patrick have confirmed to Guardian Australia that their senators will support the plan. However, no vote is expected this week.

Full story here.

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Anthony Albanese and Christopher Pyne came together for their weekly slot with Adelaide radio 5AA. And the usually jovial pair had a small skirmish over the “it’s okay to be white” motion screw-up:

ALBANESE: Well let’s be very clear here. Pauline Hanson spoke on this motion in the Senate. They were sitting there listening to her do the dog whistle to rightwing extremists, use language that is used by the KKK and other extreme rightwing groups. And then the bells rang and they voted for it.

PYNE: Because it was mistake.

ALBANESE: But they were there in the chamber during the debate. It’s been on notice for a month.

PYNE: Are you seriously suggesting that people like Simon Birmingham and Marise Payne, and Christopher Pyne for that matter, are racist? Is that what you are saying?

ALBANESE: Simon Birmingham walked into the chamber and it is understandable that sometimes when the bells ring you go in and you sit with your team …

PYNE: So you are saying that Lucy Gichuhi is a racist?

ALBANESE: But there were a range of people sitting there. I am saying that, from time to time, people who are associated with your side of politics have been prepared to sit back and listen to dog whistles.

PYNE: So Anne Ruston is a racist? Is that what you are saying?

ALBANESE: You have been, from time to time, people on your side of politics …

PYNE: No of course you are not saying that, because it’s not true. You know as well as I do that it is not true and it was a mistake end everyone knows it was a mistake.

ALBANESE: They behaved like stuffed dummies incapable of independent thought. What were they doing, auditioning for a remake of Weekend at….

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Why are the Greens against the TPP?

Here’s why the Greens were against the policy – and, it has to be said, some within the Labor caucus:

“Labor has abandoned its own party platform, Australian workers, our environment and our sovereignty in rolling over for the Morrison Government to pass the TPP,” the Greens trade spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said in a statement.

“This is a deal for big corporations, at the expense of the rights of the community.

“The economic benefit to Australia from the TPP is something between nothing and a rounding error – while the cost to everyday Australians, and our environment, are huge.

“Our environmental policy limbo and action on climate change cannot be addressed without serious risk of multinational corporations suing our nation. If the US decides to rejoin, the costs of new cancer medications would go through the roof. And, as the deal stands, vulnerable workers from six nations will be put into jobs without offering them first to Australians looking for work.

“We cannot address the TPP’s most devastating failures – ISDS provisions and weak labour market testing – now the deal is done. Labor has squibbed the opportunity to do the right thing, and to hold the Morrison government to account.

“We must, of course, be a trading nation, but what has happened today is chaining us to trade for the sake of multinational corporations and shareholder profits, rather than engaging in deals that help take our nation forward.”

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The final vote on the TPP was 35 to 15

And the division created some interesting bedfellows, at least for this Senate.

Ayes: Labor, Liberal National party, Cory Bernardi, David Leyonhjelm and Derryn Hinch.

Noes: Greens, One Nation, Centre Alliance, Fraser Anning, Brian Burston and Tim Storer.

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The Prime Minister’s Office have also just issued this statement on the TPP:

This landmark agreement is one of the most comprehensive trade deals ever concluded and strips 98% of tariffs for 11 countries with a combined GDP of more than $13.8tn and close to 500 million consumers.

Independent modelling shows Australia is forecast to see $15.6bn in net annual benefits to national income by 2030 from the TPP-11.

International trade creates jobs and drives investment.

The TPP-11 offers significant advantages for Australian exporters including accelerated reductions in Japan’s tariffs on Australian beef, greater quota volumes for wheat and barley, new access for dairy products and clear investment regimes for mining and resources.

Australia’s leadership on the TPP-11 has been another important demonstration of our commitment to the international rules-based approach to trade.

That’s why our government will continue to pursue a trade agenda that opens new markets for Australian businesses and creates certainty for exporters. It is a key plank of our government’s plan to further strengthen our economy and guarantee the essentials Australians rely on.

The TPP-11 will enter into force 60 days after six countries have ratified the agreement. So far, Mexico, Japan and Singapore have completed their domestic processes.

This passage of legislation through parliament brings Australia one step closer to being part of the first group of countries to ratify the Agreement.

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Scott Morrison was celebrating the TPP this morning ahead of it passing the Senate (as per the PMO transcript)

Can I tell you, I remember when the TPP-11, which now become … when the TPP was then made known. I was treasurer at the time and I was actually in Germany on some G20 business and the number of countries that came to us and said, “Are you still going to push ahead with this? Are you really going to keep going with this? Isn’t it a waste of time?” And I said, “Absolutely.”

The prime minister was saying at the time. And I can’t underscore enough how this agreement demonstrates our government’s commitment to expanding our trade markets.

It’s pretty easy to walk away from these sorts of things, and we saw the opposition um and ah over the China free trade agreement, we saw them actually parody this agreement. Parody what we’ve been able to achieve. And I think that says to every small and family business out there, every business out there, that when it comes to trade, we’ll back you in every time. We won’t walk away, we will always stand up. Australia is an open, trading nation, exporting quality products and services all around the world. We know that, we get that, we’ll back it in every single time.

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Liberal senator James Paterson popped up on Sky to talk about why the Israel embassy should move to Jerusalem.

It’s no surprise he is in favour. It’s also a policy that is put forward by the branches at state and national level quite frequently. Until Tuesday, the parliamentary team response was “this won’t be happening”.

“ ... It is Israel’s capital. The only question is, should we persist with the fiction, should we pretend it is not really Israel’s capital, or should we pretend another city to the north is actually Israel’s capital? I don’t think there is any value in pretending, when we know what the truth is.

“ ... I would be very surprised if it cost us a free-trade agreement, because there are very good reasons for Indonesia to have that free-trade agreement, just as there are very good reasons for Australia to have that agreement. It is in both our interests.”

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TPP bill passes

The Trans-Pacific Partnership deal has passed the Senate.

The Greens were against it, but Labor, despite internal division, supported the legislation, which meant it sailed through.

All five amendment attempts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership bill have been rejected and the Senate is voting on the bill.

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Sarah Hanson-Young has put forward this amendment on the TPP debate the Senate is undertaking right now (given Labor’s support for the TPP, this debate is largely a tick and flick):

(1) Clause 2, page 2 (cell at table item 2, column 2), omit the cell, substitute:

If the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, done at Santiago, Chile on 8 March 2018, enters into force for Australia — the first day that:

(a) both of the following amendments of that Agreement are in force for Australia:

(i) an amendment with the effect that Chapter 9 of the Agreement, which deals with investor-State disputes, does not apply in relation to investments within Australia;

(ii) an amendment with the effect that labour market testing must occur in relation to contractual service suppliers entering, or proposing to enter, Australia from all parties to the Agreement; and

(b) another Act is in force that includes provisions with the effect that Australia must not, after the commencement of that Act, enter into a trade agreement with one or more other countries that:

(i) waives labour market testing requirements for workers from those countries; or

(ii) includes an investor-state dispute settlement provision.

However, the provisions do not commence at all unless all of the events mentioned in this item occur.

It was voted down.

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More changes at the ABC:

And as I’ve just been reminded, Mark Latham and the Liberal Democrats parted ways in September.

From Rosie Lewis’s story in the Oz:

‘I’ve been a Liberal Democrats member for the past 16 months. In recent times the national executive has been discussing my possible nomination for political candidacy without resolution,’ Mr [Mark] Latham wrote to the LDP.

‘Given the nature of the impasse, I have been advised to run elsewhere. In the circumstances, it’s only fair and reasonable that I ask you to cancel my Liberal Democrats membership please.’

Still – stranger things have happened.

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David Leyonhjelm has just got back to me.

He says nothing is final about his own move yet but it’s “likely”.

“Still a few variables to consider but if everything falls into place I will be going to NSW LC,” he said.

There you have it.

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Fairfax is reporting David Leyonhjelm will mostly likely leave the federal Senate in February for a tilt at the NSW upper house.

That would make sense – he is up for re-election at the next federal poll and the normal Senate quota of 14. something % seems a lot more difficult for the Liberal Democrats to gain than the NSW legislative council quota, which is 4.22 % (or less, depending on preference flows).

What that means, if he does quit, is the Lib-Dems will have a casual vacancy. Could we see Mark Latham returned to the parliament, even if just for a few months?

Stranger things have happened.

We’ve sent a message to the senator, to see what’s up.

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For those who haven’t seen Helen Davidson’s story on Nauru:

Nauruan authorities have arrested and ordered the removal of the senior medical officer for Australia’s immigration processing centre, an Australian doctor, according to sources on the island.

According to separate sources, Dr Nicole Montana, senior medical officer for Australia’s health contractor, IHMS, was arrested on Tuesday night and ordered to leave.

A spokeswoman for IHMS would not confirm the arrest but said Montana was stood down on Tuesday “for a breach of Regional Processing Centre rules”.

“She is departing Nauru today. A replacement senior medical officer is already in Nauru, there has been no impact on the services provided to transferees.”

Expect this to only turn up the heat on the call of the Australian Medical Association and others to bring children and their families to Australia for treatment.

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As Katharine Murphy mentioned yesterday, Orthodox Jewish people will have already voted in Wentworth. Because you know, there is that little thing called the Sabbath, which tends to count Saturdays out.

Which makes the “discussion” we are having about moving the embassy in Israel even more ridiculous.

The pre-vote figures from the AEC play some of that out.

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The diplomatic fallout from the “proposed discussion” is continuing on its merry way:

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Just as a reminder, here is what Michael McCormack had to say about the Nationals’ leadership issues, which have begun swirling around again now that Barnaby Joyce has decided he has spent enough time in political purgatory:

I will never, ever, background a journalist, and I think there is a cancer in Canberra at the moment, and it’s people who background journalists. It’s no good for politics. It’s no good for parliament. It’s true, I have to say: there are people opposite who also background journalists. You’ll find out. You’ll find out for sure. You already are finding out.

But you know what? The Australian people expect better. They expect better from politicians. I see the member for Sydney nodding, because she agrees. Whether it’s the Nats or whether it’s the Liberal party or whether it’s the Labor party, you know what? The Australian public just want us to focus on what’s important to them.

It was a shot across the bow, for shizzle, but might have landed better if his party was listening. Parts of it seem to be. Just not maybe the parts he needs.

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The government has again refused to table the Philip Ruddock-led review into religious freedoms to the Senate:

Mathias Cormann had this to say about it:

The Ruddock report was commissioned by cabinet for the express purpose of informing cabinet deliberations in relation to a range of matters related to religious freedom. It was provided to the government in May. In due course, cabinet will finalise its response to the report’s recommendations. As such, the deliberative processes of cabinet in relation to the report provided to the government by the expert panel have yet to be completed.

I hasten to add, again, that the deliberative process of cabinet does not just commence with the consideration by the full cabinet of a final submission with a final set of recommendations. The deliberative process of cabinet actually begins with the relevant minister or ministers putting together a draft submission, and the work leading up to the putting-together of a draft submission, which ultimately is destined to be considered by cabinet.

Clearly the document referred to in the motion is the central input into a deliberative process of cabinet. While the report and the response have not yet been considered by the full cabinet, the report has already informed and continues to inform the deliberative process of cabinet. As is well recognised in the Westminster system, it is in the public interest to preserve the confidentiality of cabinet deliberations, to ensure the best possible decisions are made following thorough consideration and discussion of relevant proposals within cabinet. The release of this document at this time would harm the public interest, in that it would interfere with the deliberative processes of cabinet and good decision-making.

The government will release the report in due course, following proper consideration of its recommendations by government through the deliberative processes of cabinet. Indeed, we will release the report together with the government’s response to it.

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Parliament’s Gossip Girl Derryn Hinch is spilling the tea on Senate corridor movements:

XOXO indeed.

And it comes on the back of this:

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Just for a change of pace, and because we need a little bit of inspiring news from time to time, this is also something that is happening from our little place on the hill:

Greg Hunt will be waving Alan Staines off on his walk tomorrow morning. Alan wants to raise awareness around Australia’s suicide rate, because of just how many lives it touches.

“Deaths in Australia due to suicide now exceed motor vehicle accidents, war, natural disasters and homicides combined. The hidden costs of suicidal behaviour are estimated to be $17 billion a year. And yet there is little attention given to the issue of suicide,” he said.

He’s not alone – there has been a concerted effort from organisations in the mental health and health sector to get the government to pay more attention to this.

Crisis support services can be reached 24 hours a day: Lifeline 13 11 14; Suicide Call Back Service 1300 659 467; Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800; MensLine Australia 1300 78 99 78; Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636

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We are three days out from polls closing on Wentworth, where the Liberal party are scrambling to hold on to its one-seat majority in the House of Reps.

Now, the polls are bad. Single-seat polls are notoriously difficult to get right because, well, the samples are a bit hinky and we have seen time and time again the polls predict the exactly wrong result.

But the Liberal party showed just how worried it is when Scott Morrison came out on Tuesday, having briefed parts of the media on Monday night, that he was open to the discussion that Australia should move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

That had nothing to do with Wentworth, we were told. Nothing at all. And it definately has nothing to do with the almost 13% of voters in Wentworth who practice Judaism. That would be an offensive conclusion to draw. He just wanted to discuss it because, you know, that’s what prime ministers do. Discuss potentially tearing up decades of foreign policy, and going against 90 % of the world a week out from a crucial byelection with a large Jewish population, just because.

The Liberals, thanks to Malcolm Turnbull, hold Wentworth by almost 18%. It was a 2.5% margin in 2007, so Turnbull not only worked that seat, he put his thing down, flipped it and reversed it.

And still the government is worried it could lose it. And with it, its majority in the parliament (although Cathy McGowan has confirmed she will still give the government confidence*).

Do they have a right to be so worried, given that margin?

Well, thanks to one of the wags who likes to sprinkle my days with fun political facts, and the occasional Kate Bushism, I can tell you that the three worst byelection results since the war were:

Bass (1975) – swing against the Labor govt was 14.6%

Canberra (1995) – swing against the Labor govt was 16.1%

Werriwa (1952) – swing against the Lib govt was 12.4% (though seat did not change hands)

In Bass and Canberra, the government also lost power.

After the 2015 Queensland election, where Labor went from nine seats to government, I would never underestimate voter anger. It just depends how angry the people of Wentworth actually are.

*oops, accidentally typed supply the first time. Well spotted.

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And on that absolute masterclass in bell-endery (a few of you pointed this out in the comments last night), Luke Howarth, whose seat of Petrie sits smack back in One Nation territory, had a slightly different take on the issue during his Sky interview yesterday:

“At the end of the day, I think this has been blown out of all proportion,” he said.

... What we are seeing from Pauline Hanson and the Labor party in the House of Reps today [Tuesday] is everything people in my electorate hate about Canberra. So if you go to people in my electorate and say, ‘well, it’s okay to be white’, most people would have no idea what you are referring about. They’d go ‘well, of course it is’. But down here, they are in this little bubble where One Nation and Labor want to play games and the fact is people on the ground think ‘what the hell are you guys doing down there’.

On Scott Morrison coming out and saying it was “regrettable”, Howarth had this to say:

“Well, I believe that was a mistake by the government as well, we should have just let it die.”

... I believe the government should have just let it die yesterday [Monday] and I think the opposition were wrong to raise it again in the House of Reps again today [Tuesday].

They should have just come out and said straight forward that the reason why they voted for it was because when you read what Senator Hanson said by itself it is fine, but when you put it in the context of what the Labor party raised, saying it was from a white supremacist group in the US, and not being a US MP I wasn’t aware of it, it has [been] given it more air time.

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Michelle Grattan, who checks, double checks and then checks her information again (as do we, but for context) wrote about the monumental stuff-up, which was the “administrative error” that saw the government vote yes when it meant no.

From her the Conversation article:

When these Senate motions – on average there are 50-60 every sitting week – come, the government asks the relevant ministerial office to advise. In this case, it was the office of Attorney-General Christian Porter.

Porter says his staff interpreted Hanson’s [motion] as “a motion opposing racism. The associations of the language were not picked up”. An email was sent – advising support – “without my knowledge”.

Porter put the blame on his staff – in fact two were involved – for misinterpreting the motion and so failing to “escalate” it up to him.

One would have thought ministerial staff would be particularly alert to Hanson motions, and think very carefully before concluding she was doing something as unlikely as putting forward an anti-racist one.

Porter’s office gave its first advice in September, when the motion was lodged.

But in a tactics meeting, Mathias Cormann, who is Senate leader, overrode the view from the Porter office.

The Senate leadership decided the Coalition would oppose the motion, accompanying its opposition with a statement that the government condemned all forms of racism.

The motion was expected to come to a vote on September 20 but the Senate ran out of time.

When the motion was looming this week, unbeknown to Cormann, fresh advice was sought from Porter’s office, which again declared it should be supported.

Cormann was paired and not in the chamber when it was dealt with; he only found out the government had voted for it after the event (it was defeated 31-28). Cormann hadn’t been informed that his earlier decision had been overridden by the latest advice from the Porter office. Another failure of “escalation”.

Cormann threw himself under the blame bus on Tuesday, but actually he’d tried earlier to stop the government being run over by the Hanson truck.

Which might explain why Cormann looked like he wanted to rock under a desk for most of yesterday. But at least he stepped up and took the blame. You know who we didn’t get a press conference from yesterday? Porter.

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Who doesn’t love the smell of a diplomatic storm in the morning?

Despite numerous, numerous reports that Indonesia is pretty cranky at the suggestion we might even be considering moving our Israeli embassy, and the cloud that puts over the trade agreement we have signed with them, Scott Morrison says everything is fine.

The Indonesian trade minister has discounted that report. That doesn’t surprise me. We have been in close engagement with Indonesia and we share one important value in common – we both believe in a two-state solution and that is the basis of the comments I have made today.

Anyone who follows Indonesian foreign policy knows that ministers can say something, and then policy can change on a dime.

Which is why all our foreign policy wonks are warning us not to do it.

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Speaking of Nauru and Manus Island, today’s press club address is by Peter Maurer, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

He’s speaking on the “global trends of war and their humanitarian impacts”. Given that Australia is involved in some of those global trends of war, and knows exactly what the humanitarian impacts can be, it should be quite interesting.

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Good morning

The Morrison government has woken to wall-to-wall bad headlines, featuring its allies warning it against walking away from a foreign policy Australia has held for decades, just days out from a byelection that will decide whether it holds on to its one-seat majority or not.

And it is an entire self-own.

Scott Morrison’s decision to have a “discussion” about whether or not Australia should move its Israel embassy to Jerusalem has gone down like a lead balloon with key trading partners and traditional allies.

The only one who seems happy, other than Israel, is America, with Donald Trump embracing the fact someone else might be following his path.

So now Morrison and Josh Frydenberg, who has been sent out over the past 24 hours to talk about how talking about this is not a bad talk to have, are now defending that talk, while batting away any mention of the “Wentworth byelection”.

The “proposed discussion” has been roundly criticised for it’s timing. Morrison is desperately trying to come up with reasons why it’s not about Wentworth, but given the announcement, which came out of the blue, and on the back of some bad polling for the Liberals, he is not having much luck.

We’ll follow that, and the latest on Nauru, with the parliament now waking up to the fact that the public probably isn’t so cool with leaving asylum seekers to sit in Nauru and Manus Island indefinitely. Members of the Liberal backbench – the same ones who were largely steamrolled by their more conservative colleagues on practically every issue under the sun – are now speaking up, loudly, that they want a solution too.

But it’s become snagged on the “lifetime ban” clause the government wants to put on the asylum seekers. Labor and the Greens say no and so do enough of the crossbench, that the legislation has been sitting there in the twilight zone.

Mike Bowers is still on assignment, so it’s just me and the Guardian’s brains trust this morning. I hope you have had your coffee, because if yesterday was any indication, it is going to be a doozy.

Ready?

Let’s get into it.

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