Welcome again to its weekly federal policy update, where Brett Worthington houses it in the events of Parliament Home.
He was an Advice Clinton advisor who called politics as an exhibition business for ugly people.
Leaving the last fortnight in Canberra, it often feels that the art of efficiency offered is more like some of a community theater than anything you would see in Hollywood.
With the smell of an choice in the air, there has been no ham shortage that acts on display.
Enter Don Farrell, the heavyweight of southern Australia factions often called godfather, a man who frantically tries to prevent Donald Trump from imposing tariffs on Australian exports.
Farrell is the last man of the back room, an unsurpassed powerbroker when it comes to counting numbers.
That is not to suggest that he is too shy to stand in front of the cameras, which is where he met this morning to speak an agreement of a thirteenth in the coalition to review the electoral donation laws.
Crossbenchers have called the new laws, which limit individual donations and the amount that candidates and parties can spend, since a dirty agreement reached an agreement between two parties in a political duopoly that fears that their management about power will be threatened of independent candidates.
David Pocock joined Crossbench parliamentarians to hit the job agreement and the coalition attacked political donations. (ABC information: Luke Stephenson)
Enter the stage to the right, Zali Steggall, the OG Teal Unbiased-Cum-Journalist (at least for a couple of minutes this morning).
As an enthusiastic audience in a Christmas Panto, the journalists present had to offer a version of She is behind you When Warringah’s deputy took his place next to the minister.
Like all well -trained politicians in the media, Farrell kept his eyes locked in the cameras while Steggall gave him one question after another.
A couple of nights before, the prime minister had extended a first -hour invitation to Steggall and his cross companions for night drinks in his Canberra residence.
Add your conversations with Bob Katter in northern Queensland last week and could be forgiven for thinking that this period suddenly realizes that some friends may need at the crossroad if the surveys are correct.
At the same time, the prime minister was serving Canapés, the godfather returned to Parliament sewing an agreement with the coalition.
A Irate Steggall told journalists on Thursday that Crossbench had learned about the agreement through the media, so he had no qualms about frustrations with the clear minister with him in front of the cameras.
Farrell and his numbers won the day. Steggall, however, insists that they will remember if they come to play after the elections.
“That is the peak of insult, and that is not a good omen to have to work with a government led by Albanese in a minority situation,” Breakfast told RN.
Choice well and truly running
Next Tuesday it will be Essential when the prime minister decides to call an election.
If the Scale Back Reserve Bank the rates on Tuesday, the liberals are preparing to go to Governor Common as soon as next Friday.
(A timely reminder that no one besides Albanese in fact knows when the choice will be).
But even without shooting the initial weapon, the race is fine and truly running.
Only this week, work was busy ruling. He announced half a billion dollars to women’s health, made banks to keep their regional branches open for at least two years, rules of relaxed mortgage loans for people with student debt and promised to take possession of the airline Regional Rex if it is a private. The buyer does not take off.
He also finally launched the $ 2.2 billion he promised for Victoria before the last elections for a contentious rail project (good news for a state labor government that still licks his wounds after contamination for partial elections over the weekend. Terror through their federal counterparts).
As the Voting Day approaches, there has been a notable change in the Labor Campaign, with Queensland’s Cabinet Minister Anika Wells, leading the way in publications on social networks.
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Both parts of the policy have been sharpening their messages online and throwing conventions out the window in the online effort to win voters.
But with the boundary limits, the labor was remembered again this week that the truth rules of the old school still apply.
The party published a misleading video of Peter Dutton, in which he selectively edited the comments he made a decade ago.
Charging…
The nationals were also found in the electoral advertising of hot water.
The Victorian deputy Anne Webster, who represents the geographically large seat of Mallee in the northwest of Victoria, has rented an office that plans to keep empty to be able to enjesar it with posters.
Webster insists that he has not done anything wrong.
“Because we are entering a federal election, it seems useful to have at least what I would pay on a billboard in the front of an office,” She told ABC.
Some political experts claim that the empty position funded by the taxpayer is misleading and could violate the rules, the claims reject Webster.
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Senator moving the house?
Speaking of the NATS, on Thursday morning he brought a parliamentary scuttlebutt.
Barnaby Joyce is renouncing! Jacinta Nampijinpa Worth is moving from the NT to take his seat in New England!
Remember! He was in Tamworth for Australia’s Day, a scene transmitted on this week’s Australian history was observed on the senator, as well as to suggest evidence of the imminent movement.
Rumors have long surrounded a possible movement to the lower house for Jacinta Nampijinpa-Worth. (ABC information: Matt Roberts)
As is the case with the rumors in Parliament, it was not so, with Joyce affirming his plans to seek re -election.
It is not the first time that the price has been linked to a movement of the low house.
After the voice referendum, the Jacinta for the calls of the prime minister made his name promoted as a possible replacement for the liberals Scott Morrison in Cook Dinner and Warren Ents at the northern end of Queensland of Leichhardt.
You have the feeling that it will not be the last time the price will be linked to a move to the Low House.
Consider always microphones in
For a few days, it seemed that the former ABC Ita Buttare chair was going to take home the Scorching Mic award of the week.
Appearing in the Federal Court in the case between the national station and national journalist Antoinette Latotouf, he was not humorous for the lines of questions he faced.
Muttering “Jesus Christ” and, according to the reports, rolling the eyes, a microphic transmission of Buttros not only in the entire court but to see the live broadcast.
Back in Parliament, he was not far behind.
Sitting in the chair of the president, Queenslander James McGrath was supervising the Senate and (apparently) let out a noise that must be heard to believe.
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Whether it is an eruption or a groan, it had more night -year night vibrations than the first session of the parliamentary year.
‘Opportunity to take off in a minority group’
It was almost three years until the day, in the morbundos days of the Morrison government, that the coalition was splintered from its own political wedge.
The impulse of the coalition to frame the labor as anti -religion occurred in the form of a religious discrimination legislation, which if promulgated would have allowed religious schools to expel transgender students.
Five of the parliamentarians of the coalition could not endure it and crossed the floor, in an early morning vote full of emotions that gave the government a shameful defeat.
Let’s quickly advance to the dying days of this Parliament and the problems related to transgender children returned to the agenda, in the form of a proposal by Pauline Hanson for a Senate Health Research.
The proposal was rejected but had the support of the majority of the senators of the coalition, something that Dutton was not in humor to speak when he led a press conference earlier this week.
Dutton insisted that senators were allowed a conscious vote on “that issue” and refused to say if he supported him.
Liberal Andrew Bragg separated from his colleagues and voted against the investigation. Then speaking with the ABC’s late afternoon session, he said he was worried that trans people had the goal of obtaining political profits.
“I think some people see this as an opportunity to take off a minority group, try to develop an explicit monitoring and I think that is very dangerous,” he said.
Last week, nine newspapers reported that Dutton had made clear his shadow cabinet that they should focus on inflation and not distract personal agendas.
What else do you know?
To not be left behind, Canberra’s other parliament is not too shy for a theatrical performance.
It started quite seriously.
Canberra’s liberal, Peter Cain, wanted to know why Minister Marisa Paterson had not been aware of a fine imposed in a place after the death of a pattern. The minister insisted that privacy laws prevented their dissemination.
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What came later was a fairly standard policy.
Peter Cain: Minister, isn’t it you, really, simply throwing your regulator under the bus?
Marisa Paterson: No. I am demonstrating that the regulator is defending the laws of the law.
Enter the newly chosen liberal Deborah Morris, who asked: “Minister, what else are they telling you?”
After a pregnant pause, a baffled minister replied: “I don’t know.”
If politics is a show for ugly people, Canberra is certainly not Hollywood.
