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‘Australia’s economic destiny lies in South-East Asia’: Albanese
By Josefine Ganko
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has unveiled the national strategy for South-East Asia from the ASEAN Summit in Jakarta, as he says Australia’s “economic destiny” lies in the region.
The document details 75 recommendations the government will adopt to increase trade and investment in the region over the next two decades.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and partner Jodie Haydon arrive in Jakarta for the ASEAN Summit.Credit: AAP
“Australia’s economic engagement with the region has not kept pace with the growth of Southeast Asian economies,” Albanese said.
“The strategy we outline today reflects an enduring truth: this is where Australia’s economic destiny lies, and this is where our shared prosperity can be built.”
The strategy includes spending nearly $100 million on the identification of investment opportunities, business exchange programs and pilot programs for placements for young professionals.
Mr Albanese said the government would work through implementing all 75 recommendations in an “orderly way”, saying the strategy would also strengthen security links with Asian nations.
“There’s a complete link between the economy and economic relations and national security,” Albanese said.
“This is a positive report that will be seen positively by all of the nations in Asia.”
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Qatar decision in the ‘national interest’: transport minister
By Angus Thompson
Question time has now ended, but not before Transport Minister Catherine King was asked a question by her own side about the Qatar decision.
“It might be useful to remind the House that requests for additional capacity are made routinely to governments around the world ... and these requests are not always granted, including by those opposite,” she said.
Minister for Transport Catherine King faced questioning about her decision to reject Qatar’s application for more flights to Australia.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
She said she determined it wasn’t in the national interest for Qatar to operate 28 additional flights per week, after having 7 more flights added to its Australian footprint last year.
“I made the decision not in any company’s commercial interest, but in the national interest,” she said.
Danielle Wood will help ‘revitalise’ Productivity Commission: Chalmers
By Rachel Clun
Circling back to Treasurer Jim Chalmers, who said incoming Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood will revitalise the institution as the country struggles with sluggish productivity.
Current deputy secretary at Victoria’s Department of Treasury and Finance Chris Barrett was due to take on the Productivity Commission role, but informed the federal government on the weekend he was taking up another opportunity.
That opportunity is secretary of the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance, Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas announced, after current secretary David Martin decided to step down after nearly a decade in the role.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers says Danielle Wood will revitalise the Productivity Commission. Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
“Mr Barrett, an economist with extensive experience in Australia and abroad, had been appointed by the Commonwealth Government to lead the Productivity Commission, but we are pleased he has accepted an offer to remain in Victoria,” Pallas said.
Chalmers said Wood will start as Productivity Commission chair as soon as possible.
“Productivity is a challenge in our economy,” he said.
“I want to renew and refocus and revitalise the Productivity Commission.”
Wood said the Productivity Commission was a hugely important institution, and it was an honour to return after working there previously.
“I’m excited for the opportunity the PC has to look at new ways and new ideas to boost productivity and build prosperity for Australia in the years ahead,” she said in a statement.
How significant is a dissent motion against a Speaker?
By Angus Thompson
The dissent motion was defeated 86 to 53, as was expected given the government has a clear majority.
Here’s another example of a dissent motion from 2007, moved by now Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who was manager of opposition business at the time.
“Maybe, Mr Speaker, you should comprehend that the nature of a dissent motion is that, if it is carried, you lose your job. This goes to the heart of whether this parliament has confidence in you,” he said.
“But what we have seen over the last couple of days is an orchestrated attempt by a government that is out of touch and out of time and does not want to debate the issues so engages in disruptive behaviour. We saw it in response to the Leader of the Opposition’s first question yesterday, where we had an orchestrated attack from those opposite.”
Not first time opposition mulled moving against Speaker
By Angus Thompson
Peter Dutton says it’s not the first time the opposition has contemplated moving against a decision of the Speaker, a rare motion to make in parliament, adding the government had put Speaker Milton Dick - a Labor MP - in a “difficult position”.
“Today, I think, is a red letter day for [Transport Minister Catherine King], because the minister has a clear question before her. Will she answer it honestly? So far, she has not and the Australian public demands nothing less of her,” Dutton said of the question on the Qatar Airways decision.
Leader of the House Tony Burke accused the opposition of trying to manufacture a procedural argument against the Speaker and the government.
Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for the Arts Tony Burke arrives for Question Time.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
“The reason they have done this is really simple. They have given up on a debate about cost of living. Completely given up. They are embarrassed, completely embarrassed about the economic accounts that have come out,” he said.
“They are embarrassed that inflation has been going down. They are embarrassed that wages have been going up, and they are embarrassed about having to sit on the opposition benches as the government delivers a surplus that they were never capable of.”
Question time chaos as opposition move dissent motion against Speaker
By Angus Thompson
The federal opposition is moving against House of Representatives Speaker Milton Dick over his ruling on a question relating to Transport Minister Catherine King’s decision on Qatar Airways.
The Coalition asked King during question time whether King or her office had any discussion with outgoing Qantas chief Alan Joyce before she rejected Qatar’s application for more flights in Australia.
King responded that her department has consulted all relevant aviation industry members and she was aware of different stakeholders’ views before making her decision.
“I do meet routinely with the CEOs of all of the airlines, airports, and peak bodies, and from my recollection, the main people lobbying me about Qatar came from Virgin, and a third party [came] into my office on behalf of Qatar, and the discussions I’ve had recently with Qantas have been about their concerns about our same job, same pay legislation,” King said.
The opposition argued the question wasn’t answered. However, Dick allowed the answer.
Manager of Opposition Business Paul Fletcher moved a motion of dissent against the Speaker.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton said King was being evasive.
“You are a decent and honourable speaker but you have been put into the most difficult position by a minister who is trying to escape the reality,” Dutton said.
“You would not be put in this position Mr Speaker that forced our hand to move dissent in your order if the minister had not been so evasive. Australians are demanding answers from this government.”
This afternoon’s headlines
By Caroline Schelle
Thank you for joining our live coverage for the first half of the day.
My colleague Josefine Ganko will be anchoring the blog for the rest of the afternoon.
Here’s what you need to know if you’re just joining us:
- Australia experienced a per-capita recession in the last financial year, figures on the country’s economic growth show.
- But Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the economic growth figures show the economy remained “steady and sturdy” despite ongoing pressures.
- The Australian tax commissioner accused a growing number of profitable small businesses of deliberately avoiding their tax and superannuation obligations.
- Liberal Senator Michaelia Cash says departing Qantas boss Alan Joyce should face questions on whether he lobbied the government on its decision to reject Qatar Airways’ bid for more flights to Australia.
- Anthony Albanese has vowed to turbocharge Australia’s relationship with South-East Asia’s booming economy, announcing almost $100 million to strengthen economic links with the region.
- Economist and current Grattan chief executive Danielle Wood has been appointed as the next chair of the Productivity Commission, the first woman to hold the role.
- Professor Marcia Langton has lashed the No campaign and its leaders for “increasingly absurd” claims made about the Voice to parliament.
Appreciate your company this morning, I’ll return tomorrow.
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Voice will allow Indigenous Australians to ‘thrive not survive’: Langton
By Caroline Schelle
Indigenous academic Marcia Langton has warned there will be no other opportunity for reconciliation in the near future if Australians vote against the Voice.
“I urge Australians who are as yet to make up their minds – don’t imagine that there’s another opportunity around the corner,” she said in her National Press Club address.
“Don’t think your No vote goes in a different pile marked, ‘next time’. In this referendum, there are only two options.”
Marcia Langton addresses the National Press Club today. Credit: James Brickwood
Langton said the Yes vote would deliver recognition through the Voice, and represents “hope and healing” while a No vote wote would “bind us more closely ... to a broken status quo”.
The referendum was not about giving people a greater say than others because of their race, she said.
“There is no presumption of a singular Indigenous point of view.”
She said the Voice would acknowledge diverse histories, cultures, stories experiences and challenges.
“We can begin to work more effectively together to ensure that first Australians thrive – not survive. Thrive – not survive.”
She said Voice advocates wanted the constitutional changes to “bring reconciliation to the nation”, reduce divisions and empower First Nations people to have a formal say in government decisions.
“This is not intended to make Australians feel guilty about the often painful past of Australia’s settlement and treatment of Indigenous people,” she said.
“To the contrary, the intention is to unite Australians in what Noel Pearson referred to as completing the Commonwealth, by including and recognising Indigenous people in its rule book. Our objective is to overcome division, to build a future reconciled with our past.”
Langton lashes No campaign claims as ‘increasingly absurd’
By Caroline Schelle
Professor Marcia Langton has lashed the No campaign and its leaders for “increasingly absurd” claims made about the Voice to parliament.
Addressing the National Press Club in Canberra, the leading Indigenous academic and Voice supporter argued that the Voice was “the barest measure imaginable” to give Indigenous Australians a formal say in policies and legislation that impact them.
“For too long, conversations have been held about us and not with us. We are asking merely for an advisory body to ameliorate the power of the parliament to make laws that could cause us harm,” she said.
Professor Marcia Langton has lashed the No campaign’s claims on the Voice to parliament. Credit: Natalie Boog
Langton said the proposition would not require the parliament or government to accept the advice.
The academic referred to the 1999 referendum, where Australia voted against becoming a republic. She said former prime minister John Howard “confused yes voters” into believing there was a better model.
“We are now Boomers, and it is highly unlikely we will ever see Australia become a republic,” Langton told the audience.
She lashed those leading the campaign against the Voice, including Peter Dutton, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Warren Mundine.
“The arguments of Dutton, Price, Mundine and others in the No campaign are increasingly absurd,” she said.
“Appealing to their base with claims that the proposal will racially divide the nation and create two classes of Australians based on race. This is utter nonsense.”
However, Langton said those lies were effective with a growing minority of people. But when fact-checked the material, the finding was “the Yes case is entirely accurate, and the No case is substantially false”, she said.
“Australian voters have been deceived by the No case and by the relentless negativity and conned into believing that the referendum proposal will not lead to better outcomes.”
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