Australia politics live: Murray Watt takes aim at volume of Senate estimates questions as Greens senator laments lack of ‘timely answers’

Watt complains about ‘absolute explosion’ of Senate estimates questions

Josh Butler

Greens senator David Shoebridge and minister Murray Watt have had a tense stand-off in senate estimates, over the timeliness – or lack thereof – of answers to questions about the department of home affairs.

Watt, the environment minister, claimed opposition and crossbench senators were being “over the top” and seeking to “jam up the system” in how many questions they’re asking at Senate estimates.

Senate estimates always gets a bit tetchy, and when ministers or public servants can’t or won’t answer questions at the table, they’re often asked to take them “on notice” (to respond later in writing).

Shoebridge was asking the department of home affairs about previous questions he’d asked – about the Dural caravan bomb hoax, and the department’s contracting arrangements around offshore detention – saying he’d been waiting a long time for responses.

Watt, representing the minister for home affairs, explained there had been “an absolute explosion of questions on notice” in this parliament and the last one, compared to the last time Labor was in opposition, and that Labor had been more “responsible” with their questions. He claimed the department had responded to about 90% of the questions on notice put to it, and hit back: “Senators need to take some responsibility for the sheer number of questions being asked”.

Shoebridge responded:

These are matters of public interest and they deserve timely answers.

Watt:

With respect senator, every senator thinks their questions on notice are significant … it takes time to resolve in addition to the important work this department does.

It’s getting harder and harder for Liberals to try to bat off questions around Angus Taylor’s prospective leadership spill.

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On Sky News, Kieran Gilbert gives it a red hot crack, putting to frontbencher Melissa McIntosh that the spill “looks like it will come to a head this week. Is that your understanding?”

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McIntosh tries not to bite and says “it’s still unknown to be honest, as nothing has happened yet”.

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She adds that she hasn’t received any phone calls today.

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Gilbert asks whether she’s interested in the deputy leadership role, with her name having been mentioned as a possibility. McIntosh has made it known in the past she’d one day like to be leader.

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And then in either a slip of the tongue or genuine mistake, she says:

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It’s a pretty long and extensive list of who could or could not be a deputy leader. So no, I’m not having any of those conversations with colleagues. I’m still in shadow cabinet, I’m not resigning today from that position.

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Gilbert notices the qualification of “today”, to which she has to backtrack slightly and says she has no intention of resigning, “unless something surprises me”.

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The Australian government should take stronger action against the Laotian government over the deaths of two Australian women, Sussan Ley and the shadow foreign minister, Michaelia Cash, have said.

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In a statement, the pair said the Laotian ambassador should be brought in to give a formal explanation over revelations that workers at a hostel responsible for the deaths of Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles by methanol poisoning have only received fines of A$185.

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Ley and Cash said Australia makes a “significant contribution to Laos through our foreign aid program and other development assistance”:

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A year ago we learned the Laos government was refusing Australian Federal Police assistance in the investigation. A year ago Australians were told by the Albanese Government that the matter was in hand.

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We now know there has been no meaningful justice for Holly and Bianca, and their families did not learn of these outcomes from their own government but via the British woman’s family.

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The Albanese government should remind the Laotian government of the important contributions Australian taxpayers make to key programs in Laos in line with the friendship between our two countries.

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Shoebridge responded:

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These are matters of public interest and they deserve timely answers.

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Watt:

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With respect senator, every senator thinks their questions on notice are significant … it takes time to resolve in addition to the important work this department does.

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Dozens of Muslim organisations across Australia, including the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, Australian Muslim Advocacy Network, the Lebanese Muslim Association, the Muslim Vote and Stand for Palestine have condemned the NSW police disrupting a Muslim prayer and the use of force at the protest in Sydney on Monday.

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The groups said in a joint statement:

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What occurred was completely unacceptable. Police officers knowingly intervened in a moment of religious observance, forcibly interrupted prayer and used physical force against individuals who posed no threat to public safety.

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The use of force against people who were stationary, peaceful and engaged in prayer cannot be justified by vague references to public order. Interrupting prayer mid-act demonstrates a lack of respect for religious freedom and raises serious concerns about discriminatory and heavy-handed policing.

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In addressing the police actions earlier at the protests, against the visit of Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, the NSW premier Chris Minns said it took place during “riotous behaviour” but clarified he was not suggesting those praying were doing that.

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The groups have called for an apology from the premier, the police minister and police leadership and the resignation of the police commissioner “whose leadership bears responsibility for a policing culture in which such conduct was permitted to occur”.

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They are also seeking an investigation and the police officers involved to be held accountable.

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Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has weighed in on the Liberal leadership saga slowly unfolding at Parliament House this week, accusing his own party of abandoning the centre for an ideological “la la land”.

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Turnbull was in Canberra to speak about hydro-electricity, but took a series of questions about the fight between Sussan Ley and Angus Taylor for the opposition leadership.

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Asked if a challenge against Ley would be unfair less than a year on from the election, Turnbull said politics is a rough game.

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“Everyone gets treated badly in parliament,” he said. “Look, it’s a rough business.

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I sympathise with all of my former colleagues. They are in a terrible state. The Liberal party is facing an existential crisis.

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Turnbull said the party had to face up to hard truths about who it seeks to represent.

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This is the inevitable consequence for the Liberal party of imagining that the goal of politics is to seek the approval of the Sky News audience.

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Now that may well represent many of the members of their branches, but it does not represent Australia.

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NSW Greens upper house MP Abigail Boyd, who has alleged she was assaulted by police at yesterday’s protest, has just confronted the NSW police commissioner, Mal Lanyon, at NSW parliament. Lanyon was giving a press conference alongside the premier on yesterday’s protest a short while ago.

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The interaction was witnessed by media outlets who had come down from the press conference, including Guardian Australia. Boyd, who posted a picture of herself in the neck brace this morning, has alleged she was pushed and shoved by police at the protests last night, despite telling them she was a member of state parliament.

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“It’s not OK,” said Boyd, after describing her alleged assault to Lanyon.

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“Are you happy for me to get a police officer to come and speak to you?” said Lanyon.

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We’ll take it seriously.

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Following Chris Minns, pro-Palestinian protesters are addressing the media this morning, and say the NSW police can no longer be trusted to deal with peaceful protests.

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Greens MP Sue Higginson says NSW police created a “literal pressure cooker” by surrounding protesters from being able to disperse.

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There is a large part of NSW now that does not, cannot and should not trust the NSW police under the current NSW premier to be able to deal with … peaceful protests

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What we saw last night was a monumental failure. You only have to look at what took place. The police created a literal pressure cooker. They surrounded people at Town Hall. There were no safe avenues of dispersal.

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Higginson says she has asked the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission to establish an investigation.

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She says there was no “compromise” and no movement from police.

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I thought we would never return to this [as in] 1978 when a state and police thinks they can suppress, oppress and control a mass peaceful movement.

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I dealt with police officers last night who I know themselves were shocked at what took place and that some of those police officers were emboldened …

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Jumping back into parliament, the Liberal party room meeting has wrapped up and as anticipated there was no leadership challenge from Angus Taylor.

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It means Sussan Ley has survived another day.

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As reported earlier, a motion to spill to the leadership was not expected to be brought at Tuesday’s meeting because Liberal senators were busy with Senate estimates hearings.

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However, some senators did attend the closed-door meeting – including the Victorian backbencher Jane Hume.

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After warning on Monday that the party would be “wiped out” without an urgent change in direction, Hume directly challenged Ley at Tuesday’s meeting to outline how she planned to turn things around.

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In response, Ley told the room words to the effect of “disunity is death”, according to two Liberal MPs present at the meeting.

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Supporters of Taylor are certain of a spill at some point this week after the latest Newspoll showed the Coalition’s primary vote had collapsed to 18% – nine percentage points below One Nation.

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Taylor is reportedly planning to quit the shadow cabinet as soon as Wednesday, clearing the path for a challenge on Thursday or Friday.

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Minns says protesters did not breach police lines last night, which would have been a “disaster”. Continuing to defend the police conduct, he said there are “established process for investigation” but urged the public “not to look at a 10-second clip without the full context”.

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Minns said if lines had been breached, there would have been clashes between protesters and up to 7,000 people who were mourning at an event at the International Convention Centre:

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One of the things I didn’t see last night, because it didn’t happen, was protesters breaching police lines, and as Mal [Lanyon] said, choosing your own adventure through the streets of Sydney, that would’ve been a disaster for our community.

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That set of circumstances, where you’ve got 7,000 mourners with the president of Israel, alongside protesters, it was absolutely essential that New South Wales police were able to keep groups separate and apart.

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Chris Minns has doubled-down on his defense of NSW police officers after clashes with protesters on Monday night, again saying police were put in an “impossible situation”.

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Minns is addressing the media in Sydney, following last nights’ protests, alongside the NSW police commissioner Mal Lanyon, who described the events as “simply unacceptable”.

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Lanyon claims the speakers at the protest were “inciting the crowd to march”, where he had previously said that would not be acceptable.

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Our police showed remarkable restraint. During the first part of the speeches, it was peaceful. We were working continuously with the organiser. However, speakers were inciting the crowd to march. We had made it clear throughout the week march through the CBD was not acceptable.

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We wanted a respectful and responsible protest. That’s not what we got last night. Our police took action to disperse that protest.

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There has been widespread criticism of the NSW government and NSW police this morning, with footage of the clashes raising concerns.

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Anthony Albanese says the eSafety commissioner is looking into reports of child grooming on gaming platform, Roblox, with a review being undertaken into its PG rating.

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Albanese spoke to Triple M Hobart a bit earlier this morning, and said they’re asking the eSafety commissioner for “her advice on what powers and tools can be ramped up to protect kids on this platform.”

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The safety of children online is non-negotiable. We want kids to be able to be kids. We don’t want kids being exposed to graphic content on Roblox or anything else.

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The Liberal party room is due to meet at 9am on Tuesday as speculation that Angus Taylor will soon launch a leadership challenge to Sussan Ley continues to swirl around Canberra.

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A leadership spill is considered unlikely at Tuesday’s meeting for a few reasons:

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Firstly, the 23 Liberal senators aren’t expected to attend the meeting due to Senate estimates hearings. Liberal party conventions dictate that MPs must be present to vote in the leadership ballot.

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The second reason is that Taylor is yet to resign from the shadow cabinet, which he would be required to do in order to challenge Ley.

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Supporters of the shadow defence minister were on Monday, certain of a spill at some point this week after the latest Newspoll showed the Coalition’s primary vote had collapsed to 18% – nine percentage points below One Nation.

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Senior moderates remain supportive of Ley and are refusing to do a deal with Taylor to engineer her exit, meaning the right-winger will need to woo centre-right and unaligned MPs to secure the leadership.

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NSW Greens MLC Abigail Boyd says she was pushed and shoved by police, despite telling them she was a member of state parliament at the protests last night, and says she was “absolutely shocked” by the police’s actions.

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Speaking to ABC RN Breakfast, Boyd says police surrounded the area meaning protesters couldn’t leave and says “but then they decided we couldn’t stay either and they just started assaulting people”.

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Boyd says she only got home a few hours ago after being medically treated and posted a picture to social media wearing a neck brace.

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My neck is okay. Other parts of my body are incredibly sort of battered and sore, but there’s nothing sort of permanent, I’m told, at this point.

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Describing how she was injured, she says:

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[An] Officer just pushes his fist into my chin. And then another one, as I’m recovering from that, another one pushes me in my shoulder. It is, I mean, I feel quite naive, but I didn’t know that this was what police could do in our state. I feel just absolutely shocked.

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And then for there to be this peaceful prayer, it was prayer. How are these people a threat to anybody? They’re praying and to be just then, they grab them and they’re throwing them, they’re picking them up off of their prayer mats and throwing them to the ground.

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Staying on RN Breakfast, Liberal senator Andrew Bragg says the protests last night were a “disgrace”.

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Bragg is highly critical of the marches, and is asked whether people have a right to protest when it might be offensive to another group. He says “of course” but adds that the Herzog visit follows a “religious massacre”.

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I think it’s been in terrible taste to be protesting against something that the Jewish community has asked for after they have been severely affected by Australia’s worst religious massacre. They’ve asked for the of the Jewish state to come to provide comfort, and people have protested against that. I think it’s a disgrace.

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Bragg is also asked about video footage of police and protesters clashing, which Tanya Plibersek earlier said was “very concerning” Bragg says the protesters should have stayed away.

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They were told to stay home. I mean, they were told to stay home. I mean, I think most Australians think this is ridiculous. That it’s offensive to the Sydney Jewish community.

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A NSW police official says officers showed “restraint” at the protest before it turned violent.

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Peter McKenna, the assistant commissioner of NSW police, said he was not going to judge the actions of police officers last night because he “saw what they were up against” while covering the protests at Sydney’s Town Hall.

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He said before action was taken to disperse the crowd they showed restraint “for not minutes, not seconds, but I would say up to over an hour”.

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McKenna vehemently defended the actions of officers amid concern about videos of violence and aggressive tactics, including pepper spraying. He told ABC Radio Sydney this morning:

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Every police officer will have to justify their own actions, there’s no doubt about that.

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But what I’ll say is what happened last night was one of the most precarious, volatile situations I have seen. … The level of aggression and violence by the crowd was palpable. …

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Any type of powers were utilized because we kept trying to do it peacefully, until it became violent. As you said, the police had to react.

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McKenna added that police had tried for hours to coordinate with protestors. When asked about a video that appears to show officers grabbing and pushing Muslim men praying outside Town Hall, McKenna said:

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If their decisions were right wrong or otherwise, I’m not going to sit here and judge them this morning, because I saw what they were up against last night.

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Anthony Albanese says all views on Herzog’s visit should be expressed “peacefully”, and that the Israeli president’s visit is appropriate.

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Speaking to Triple M Hobart, the prime minister is asked about the clashes between protesters and police during last night’s marches. Albanese says he was “devastating” and said that causes are “undermined” by these sorts of scenes:

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I’m devastated by it. These are scenes that I think shouldn’t be taking place. So people should be able to express their views peacefully, but the police were very clear about the routes that were required if people wanted to march to go a particular route, and for to ensure that this was done peacefully. But the causes are not advanced by these sort of scenes, indeed, they’re undermined.

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Albanese says again the community don’t want to see “conflict” brought to Australia and that people should discuss issues peacefully and with respect.

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The Palestine Action Group plans to hold another protest on Tuesday night after a violent, chaotic scene outside Sydney Town Hall on Monday evening saw dozens arrested after police deployed pepper spray into the crowd.

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The group called for another event on Instagram, urging people to “be there tomorrow to stand up against Minns’ disgusting police state”:

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To demand all charges against protesters be dropped, and to demand accountability and charges be laid against violent police.

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The protest will take place outside NSW police’s Surry Hills police station, which lies outside the protest restriction zone.

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Josh Lees, an organiser for Palestine Action Group, said last night’s events were the “worst” he’d seen after attending many pro-Palestine protests in recent years. He told ABC Radio Sydney:

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We should have had the right to march. If police had just facilitated what we called for all along, a peaceful march from Town Hall to either the New South Wales Parliament or Hyde Park, as we were trying to negotiate with police on the night last night, then all of this could have been avoided.

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Lees added he believed police “were absolutely off the chain”, saying they “just kept charging” and “pepper spraying everyone”.

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The ten year plan from 2026-36 will come with $218m of funding over four years in the budget, which the government says will fund a national network of up to 40 Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations to deliver community-led specialist support services.

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Tanya Plibersek says the services will include:

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Crisis responses including mobile teams in remote areas to work with families after a violent incident,

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Planning support to help victims leave violence safely and receive continued support,

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Community support programs including playgroups for mums and children to connect with Elders, and

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Behaviour change and education programs for men and boys.

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On ABC AM, Plibersek said:

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[The plan] says that solutions that are locally designed, locally driven, locally staffed, locally delivered are going to make a greatest difference in the remote communities in particular.

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Tanya Plibersek has moved across to the other side of the ABC office in the press gallery, and is speaking to the AM program on the plan to end violence against First Nations women and children.

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She says First Nations Australians will be able to make submissions to the royal commission into antisemitism and social cohesion, and the minister for Indigenous Australians, Malarndirri McCarthy is encouraging the community to do that.

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Plibersek says racism against First Nations people has been growing, and the terms of reference of the royal commission will allow those experiences to be considered.

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The recent terrorist attack in Perth has led to enormous fear and anxiety, I know, amongst many Aboriginal people and in Aboriginal communities. But this comes on top of years now of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people telling us that racism against them is increasing …

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The royal commission terms of reference already allow the commissioner to look at best practices and approaches to de-radicalisation and strengthening social cohesion.

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The NSW premier, Chris Minns, is making the first of multiple appearances across the media this morning following the violent clashes between police and protesters yesterday evening.

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He has told Channel Nine’s Today program that police were “put in an impossible situation last night”:

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It’s worth remembering they did everything possible to avoid that confrontation, starting last week when they begged protest organisers to have it in Hyde Park, where it was safe and a march could take place.

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I know that some of the scenes on media are short clips, but people have to understand the circumstances where protesters breached police lines and ran amuck in Sydney would have been devastating.

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What we can say today what we couldn’t say yesterday is that we had 7,000 Jewish mourners in the same city at the same time, and police had to keep those two groups apart.

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Asked about comments from NSW Labor backbencher Sarah Kaine that the police response were disproportionate, Minns says:

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No. She’s wrong. I’m not going to throw police under the bus this morning. This is a situation that’s incredibly combustible. And the circumstances that weren’t shown on the news this morning or on TV last night because is what would have happened if protesters breached police lines …

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It would have dangerous … as difficult as the scenes were to watch, it would have been infinitely worse if NSW police didn’t do their job last night.

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The Greens said the police action amounted to “summary physical punishment against legitimate and peaceful protest”.

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Sue Higginson, Greens MP and the party’s spokesperson for justice, said it was “corporal punishment against a peaceful community” caused by the “inflammatory actions” of Chris Minns.

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She said she would be referring the “wildly inappropriate” police actions to the law enforcement conduct commission.

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A lawful and peaceful public assembly was set upon with state violence because arbitrary and excessive special powers were granted to the police, via a rushed regulation made on a Saturday, with no good cause and in defiance our implied constitutional rights to engage in political expression.

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I saw with my own eyes something I had hoped to never see, but the video footage that is spreading across social media is all the evidence that any of us need to see the descent of NSW into a police state. We saw people of the Muslim faith who were praying set upon, dragged, assaulted and thrown to the ground. We saw dozens of armed police charging at peaceful members of our community.

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Charging horses, chemical weapons, unprovoked assault and severe police violence. These should never be the tools of law enforcement and their presence on Sydney streets must be a wake-up call to all of us.

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Good morning and welcome to our live politics blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the big breaking stories before Krishani Dhanji takes the helm.

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Anthony Albanese’s decision to invite the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, to Australia to promote “unity” after the Bondi terror attacks will come under scrutiny today after police used pepper spray and mass charges on protesters opposing Herzog’s visit in Sydney last night.

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The Greens described the police action as “wildly inappropriate” but the police claimed last night that speakers at the protest had “incited” the crowd to march. We have news, reaction and videos of the shocking scenes coming up.

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No sooner had Sussan Ley made another peace with David Littleproud than reports have emerged that she faces an imminent leadership challenge from Angus Taylor. We have a full report and we’ll be bringing you developments in the Liberal saga when they happen.

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Amanda Meade

New radio rules on artificial intelligence use

Radio broadcasters will have to disclose when an AI voice is used, under a new code of conduct registered by the media authority.

In other new rules in the commercial radio code of practice 2026, broadcasters will have to exercise “special care” when airing content from 8-9am and 3-4pm on school days, when children are more likely to be listening.

The special care rule follows the repeated broadcasting of “vulgar” and “deeply offensive” content by Kyle and Jackie O’s program on the Kiis network.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (Acma) has announced a notice of intention to impose an additional licence condition on Kiis, a regulatory tool not imposed on a licensee since 2Day FM’s infamous royal hoax call in 2012 to a London hospital where Kate Middleton was a patient.

“Listeners are also worried about inappropriate content at peak travel times when families listen together,” the Acma chair, Nerida O’Loughlin, said.

Acma registered the updated rules for commercial radio broadcasters today.

O’Loughlin said:

Listeners want greater transparency about when AI is being used. We welcome the commitments by the radio industry to address listener concerns.

Larissa Waters defends Grace Tame against critics

The Greens leader, Larissa Waters, has defended former Australian of the Year Grace Tame, who took part in a protest in Sydney on Monday night, after calls from Barnaby Joyce to have her title stripped.

The One Nation MP said on Tuesday that Tame’s use of “globalise the intifada” at the protest should see her honour revoked. The Liberal MP Tim Wilson also publicly criticised Tame.

Waters told journalists in Parliament House a little earlier that if Joyce thinks that Tame is the problem, “that says a lot more about Barnaby Joyce than it does about Grace Tame”.

The gender dynamics of that call are pretty apparent, aren’t they, two extreme conservative men who have a terrible track record of standing up for women’s rights anyway, now calling for a brave Australian Grace Tame, who has every fibre of her being defined as a social justice warrior, and this is the response that she gets.

Larissa Waters speaks to the media with Mehreen Faruqi and David Shoebridge at Parliament House. Photograph: Hilary Wardhaugh/Getty Images

‘I’m not resigning today,’ Liberal frontbencher McIntosh says

It’s getting harder and harder for Liberals to try to bat off questions around Angus Taylor’s prospective leadership spill.

On Sky News, Kieran Gilbert gives it a red hot crack, putting to frontbencher Melissa McIntosh that the spill “looks like it will come to a head this week. Is that your understanding?”

McIntosh tries not to bite and says “it’s still unknown to be honest, as nothing has happened yet”.

She adds that she hasn’t received any phone calls today.

Gilbert asks whether she’s interested in the deputy leadership role, with her name having been mentioned as a possibility. McIntosh has made it known in the past she’d one day like to be leader.

And then in either a slip of the tongue or genuine mistake, she says:

It’s a pretty long and extensive list of who could or could not be a deputy leader. So no, I’m not having any of those conversations with colleagues. I’m still in shadow cabinet, I’m not resigning today from that position.

Gilbert notices the qualification of “today”, to which she has to backtrack slightly and says she has no intention of resigning, “unless something surprises me”.

Melissa McIntosh during Monday’s question time with David Littleproud and Sussan Ley. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Andrew Messenger

Queensland LNP MP crosses the floor to vote on abortion motion

The Queensland LNP MP Nigel Hutton has crossed the floor to vote against his own government on an abortion motion.

The issue dogged the party during the 2024 state election.

The government implemented a gag on any debate about abortion on its first regular sitting day. It bans any “motion or amendment” seeking to have the house “express its views” on abortion and also prohibits any amendment to the termination of pregnancy act.

On Tuesday, the Katters’ Australian party MP Robbie Katter asked for leave to move a motion without notice to overturn the gag.

The government opposed the motion. Labor MPs called across the room for LNP MPs to join them as the bells rang.

Labor has always opposed the gag order, which it says prevents expansion of abortion rights in Queensland.

Hutton voted for it, crossing the floor to do so.

Despite Labor, most of the crossbench as well as Hutton voting together, it still failed 50 votes to 35.

Josh Taylor

eSafety hasn’t told government the breakdown of accounts removed in ban

Officials in the communications department say the eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, has not disclosed the number of accounts removed on each of the 10 platforms required to comply with the social media ban.

In Senate estimates this morning, Liberal senator Jane Hume asked whether the figure of 4.7 million accounts removed in the days following the 10 December start date was now “discredited”. It is understood that the figures include duplicate accounts and accounts that were never used in YouTube’s case.

Officials were unable to give a breakdown for each platform, confirming Inman Grant had not provided the breakdown to the department citing her investigation into the platforms’ compliance.

eSafety refused to provide the breakdown when requested by Guardian Australia, also.

So far only Meta and Snap have provided their individual figures.

Questions on the figures were directed to eSafety, which is due to appear before the estimates hearing this afternoon.

Jane Hume in Senate estimates. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

The Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, has visited a Jewish school in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, speaking to students and teachers.

Herzog is meeting with the Jewish community, including survivors and families impacted by the Bondi terror attack.

Isaac Herzog meets with students and staff at Moriah War Memorial College in Sydney. Photograph: Getty Images

Herzog meets with students and staff during the school visit. Photograph: Getty Images

Herzog and first lady Michal Herzog (L) at the school in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Photograph: Getty Images

Authoritarianism and fascism ‘happening right here’: Greens

The Greens deputy leader, Mehreen Faruqi, is hounding the state and federal Labor governments over yesterday’s protests against Israeli president Isaac Herzog’s visit.

Faruqi, speaking to reporters in Parliament House, says it “beggars belief” that the NSW premier, Chris Minns, and NSW police are justifying the actions of police.

The senator for NSW, who is Muslim, says the Muslim community has “known that we are second class citizens in this country for a very long time.”

Now everyone can see that Muslims are not just gaslighted, they are not just scapegoated, but they are actually assaulted by the very people who are supposed to protect us and under the Labor government. It is really an upside-down world.

Authoritarianism and fascism isn’t just happening over there in Trump’s USA. It is happening right here in Minns’ New South Wales and in Albanese’s Australia.

New South Wales now is well down the path of a violent police state.

House passes bill to establish Australian Tertiary Education Commission

Things have been moving fairly quickly already in the House this afternoon, which just started sitting at 12pm, due to all the party room meetings. Over in the Senate, estimates is still going on, and public servants are still facing a grilling.

The House has just voted to pass a bill establishing the Australian Tertiary Education Commission (ATEC) which is a body that will be charged with designing university reforms, following the university accord.

The ATEC will also look at more contentious policies like the Job Ready Graduates Scheme and possible ways to fix it.

The body was supposed to be established last month, but the bill was only introduced on the last sitting day of last year.

Coalition calls for government to take action against Laos over methanol-poisoning deaths

Ley and Cash said Australia makes a “significant contribution to Laos through our foreign aid program and other development assistance”:

A year ago we learned the Laos government was refusing Australian Federal Police assistance in the investigation. A year ago Australians were told by the Albanese Government that the matter was in hand.

We now know there has been no meaningful justice for Holly and Bianca, and their families did not learn of these outcomes from their own government but via the British woman’s family.

The Albanese government should remind the Laotian government of the important contributions Australian taxpayers make to key programs in Laos in line with the friendship between our two countries.

A photo of Holly Morton-Bowles and Bianca Jones, who died in November 2024 after inadvertently drinking alcohol laced with lethal methanol at Vang Vieng in Laos. Photograph: Charlie Kinross/The Guardian

Lisa Cox

Climate groups say big emitters should pay for disaster recovery

Climate groups are calling for a pollution levy to be paid by major emitting companies, including gas and coal producers, as communities are hit by the costs of increasing global-heating driven disasters.

Climate Action Network Australia (CANA) and Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action said data from the Insurance Council of Australia showed fires, floods, heatwaves and storms had resulted in about $1.6bn in insured losses in Australian communities this summer so far.

The groups said Australia’s biggest emitting companies should “pay their fair share for the damage now being caused” via a levy that could fund disaster recovery in hard-hit communities, adaptation measures, and accelerating the clean energy transition.

Jan Harris, the co-chair of Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action, lost her home to a bushfire in 2018. She said “it is families just like mine who are shouldering the burden of climate change and we are close to breaking”.

Barry Traill from CANA said:

Communities are paying for this savage summer with their homes, livelihoods and, in too many cases, their lives … It’s time our parliament made those profiting from climate pollution help pay for the cleanup and the protections we need.

Penry Buckley

How many people attended last night’s protest in Sydney?

Police have so far declined to provide an estimate an how many attended last night’s protest, although as Guardian Australia has reported, police and organiser estimates can differ significantly.

When the Palestine Action Group unsuccessfully sought to challenge the government’s invocation of “major event” powers at the supreme court this week, organisers said they expected about 5,000 people to attend the protest at Town Hall square, which they said had a capacity of about 4,500.

The NSW upper house Labor MP Stephen Lawrence who attended the rally, told the ABC this morning he thought about 20,000 to 30,000 people had been present, a number echoed at a press conference by the Palestine Action Group and the NSW Greens a short while ago.

Police have confirmed there have been charges laid among the 27 protesters arrested yesterday, but are yet to identify the alleged offences.

People gathering at Sydney’s Town Hall yesterday to protest the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog. Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian

Tom McIlroy

Albanese thanks Labor MPs for discipline and ‘dignity’ in party room meeting

Anthony Albanese has thanked Labor MPs for their discipline and “dignity” in recent weeks, using remarks to a caucus meeting in Canberra to highlight ongoing instability in Coalition ranks.

The prime minister told the closed door meeting on Tuesday that Labor must continue to be “the adults in government” as the opposition leader, Sussan Ley, looks set to be challenged within days.

Albanese said the Coalition was a circus but government MPs should talk up their record on economic matters, on schools funding and a new agreement with the states and territories to fund hospital services and the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

Albanese also mentioned his successful visit to Indonesia alongside the foreign minister, Penny Wong, last week.

Ahead of the May budget, Albanese said Labor would work to strengthen the government’s fiscal position and provide assistance to households with the high cost-of-living, and reminded Labor MPs of the week’s closing the gap report on Indigenous disadvantage.

He said the annual Closing the Gap statement would be delivered in the wake of an alleged terror attack against Invasion Day protesters in Perth on 26 January. Albanese restated his view that it was time to “turn the temperature down” in Australia.

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