Joyce likens US public execution to ‘Roman amphitheatre’ – as it happened
Özet haber: NSW One Nation rejects attempt to force it to cost state policies NSW One Nation has pushed back against an attempt to have the party cost its state election promises, saying it would instead use access to the NSW parliamentary budget office (PBO) to cost the government’s net zero objectives.
NSW One Nation rejects attempt to force it to cost state policies NSW One Nation has pushed back against an attempt to have the party cost its state election promises, saying it would instead use access to the NSW parliamentary budget office (PBO) to cost the government’s net zero objectives.
As we reported this morning, the Minns government will seek to amend legislation to give One Nation access to the PBO, in a bid to challenge the populist party to cost its election promises. Labor says it’s clear March’s 2027 election will see three parties competing to form government. Current legislation only contemplates a Labor v Coalition contest.
Minor parties like the Greens and independents can use the PBO to cost up to two policies a year. In a statement this afternoon, NSW One Nation leader and candidate for Cessnock, Mike Newman, said: Our only request will be what is the total cost of Net Zero to the NSW Budget? Unless the PBO can provide a comprehensive response then One Nation will n
That’s all for the politics live blog today, thanks so much for joining us. Here are the headlines: The Australian government should block the “barbaric” broadcast or live stream of a US military execution, Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young says. She found a somewhat unlikely ally in Barnaby Joyce who said the execution was like “Roman amphitheatre” and should not be watched.
The government was a lot less forthcoming on whether the stream should be banned. Small business minister Anne Aly was in the question time spotlight today, pressed by the opposition on how and when she found out the ATO would ban credit card payments (she says she found out with the rest of the public).
Australian engineer Robert Pether has been allowed to leave Iraq after being detained for more than four years in a Baghdad jail cell that his family feared would kill him. David Chau will replace the retiring Alan Kohler as the ABC’s finance presenter on its 7pm news bulletins, the national broadcaster has announ
Question time ends After a final dixer to resources minister, Madeleine King, the PM calls time on QT for the day. On indulgence he gives Milton Dick a shout out for his election to become the “global speaker”, the leader of the International Parliamentary Union.
Aly says she found out about ATO move when the rest of the public did Nationals MP Kevin Hogan again probes small business minister Anne Aly to declare when she found out about the ATO’s decision to ban credit card payments. Hogan says the treasurer said that he’d heard from the ATO not the Reserve Bank about the ban “in the lead up to the decision”, so why didn’t Aly also know in advance?
Anne Aly says again that she found out with the rest of the public: I’ll repeat my answer from last time, but I’ll add a bit of clarity to it. The RBA announced their plan to ban surcharges on March 31 this year, stating that surcharges will be banned from October 1. On October 1, the ATO announced their decision that they would not be accepting credit cards. That’s when I found out.
