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Malinauskas said in a speech in Sydney last night that populism has well and truly arrived in Australia and the government should push back against it – and said this morning that Labor should be speaking more positively about migration.

Speaking to RN Breakfast earlier this morning, Hill says Labor has learned its lesson already … with the Greens.

double quotation markI learnt this 20 years ago. You can’t outgreen the Greens. If we say 10, they’ll say 20. We say 20, they’ll say 40. It’s a populist business model.

The government has no intention of engaging in a race to the bottom that would destroy the economy or, frankly, smash family life for millions of Australians across our country.

Key events

• 23m ago

  Labor won’t race One Nation to the bottom on migration, Hill says

• 1h ago

  Former Liberal MP Moira Deeming announces she will join Family First party

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  Lambie furious over ‘disgusting’ One Nation video calling Hastie a ‘traitor’

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  Hastie labels Hanson ‘weak and glass jawed’

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  Don’t appease One Nation on migration, Malinauskas warns

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  Australia should ‘put shoulder to the wheel’ on multilateral diplomacy: Rudd

Digital duty of care draft bill ‘unacceptable’ to the Coalition

Angus Taylor has confirmed the Coalition won’t support the government’s digital duty of care bill in its current form, because it would enforce political censorship.

Speaking alongside the Nationals leader, Matt Canavan (who has gone out particularly hard against this legislation), and the shadow communications minister, Sarah Henderson, Taylor says the government’s can’t be trusted with these rules.

The opposition has said the government has too many powers to broaden the definitions of harm that tech platforms will have to protect adults and children against. The government has said any changes will be able to be rejected by the Senate.

Taylor says:

double quotation markThis exposure draft, this bill, is unacceptable in its current form because the reality is it’s providing a blank cheque for political censorship to the minister, to the government.

Canavan adds:

double quotation markI don’t want to see a government be given a virtual iron dome to protect themselves and insulate themselves from people’s feedback.

The Labor party, in recent weeks, has blamed an election loss in Western Australia on social media and so the people, the same people that are complaining they’re losing elections, losing political debates based on what is said on social media, can’t be given the power then to regulate what you can say and read online.

Labor won’t race One Nation to the bottom on migration, Hill says

After the South Australian premier, Peter Malinauskas, sternly warned his federal counterparts against engaging in a race to the bottom with One Nation by drastically cutting migration, the assistant multicultural minister, Julian Hill, says that won’t happen.

Malinauskas said in a speech in Sydney last night that populism has well and truly arrived in Australia and the government should push back against it – and said this morning that Labor should be speaking more positively about migration.

Speaking to RN Breakfast earlier this morning, Hill says Labor has learned its lesson already … with the Greens.

double quotation markI learnt this 20 years ago. You can’t outgreen the Greens. If we say 10, they’ll say 20. We say 20, they’ll say 40. It’s a populist business model.

The government has no intention of engaging in a race to the bottom that would destroy the economy or, frankly, smash family life for millions of Australians across our country.

Greens support strengthened powers for eSafety commissioner on social media ban

The Senate is currently voting on the government’s bill to increase the powers of the eSafety commissioner in her quest to crack down on tech platforms breaching the under-16s social media ban.

The government sold it as pretty uncontroversial legislation that gives the commissioner powers like being able to compel more hard evidence like paper documents from tech platforms to show they’re doing the right thing.

The Greens are voting for the government amendments to the legislation, but the Coalition aren’t.

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young says:

double quotation markIt’s very hard, of course, to implement any of these rules if these companies can keep their tricks and tactics locked down in secret, it’s why we need proper transparency when it comes to exactly what is going on what is happening under the hoods of these toxic algorithms.

Former Liberal MP Moira Deeming announces she will join Family First party

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Moira Deeming, the former Victorian Liberal MP, has announced she will lead the conservative Family First party at the November state election.

Joined by the party’s leader, Lyle Shelton, at parliament this morning, Deeming told reporters Family First was a “good fit”.

double quotation markA lot of parties invited me [to join] … and it was very flattering and very gracious to them all. But I had to have a really good think about it. And as I said, I’ve known Lyle for so long, and I know that he’s a man of good character and I know that he’s never going to ask me to be quiet about child safeguards and sex-based rights.

Deeming, who sits in the upper house for the Western Metropolitan Region, quit the Liberals in July after she was disendorsed by the party. It came after she accused fellow Liberal MP Matthew Guy of grabbing her “violently” in a headlock, but later said she misunderstood the meaning of headlock.

Her first term in Victorian state parliament has been marred with controversy, including when she successfully sued former Liberal leader John Pesutto for defamation after he falsely claimed she was associated with neo-Nazis who crashed a rally she attended.

Jumping back to that press conference on the national gas reservation scheme, the government says it’s long overdue.

Tim Ayres says:

double quotation markWe are the only gas producing economy in the world on any scale that does not have an obligation on our domestic producers to secure gas for our own industry and its own households

Madeleine King says that the east coast and west coast will be treated as two different markets. Why? Because they currently produce gas separately and there’s no connecting pipeline between them, which means the east coast won’t be able to fill their reservation requirements just by selling to the west and vice versa.

Hanson says she has never called Hastie a traitor

Pauline Hanson was tight-lipped on her way into parliament this morning when swamped by journalists at the doors.

This is all she said:

double quotation markI have never called him a traitor. End of question.

Andrew Hastie has said Hanson should take ownership for the language in the One Nation cartoon, which is pinned to the top of her X account.

Labor confirms watering down of gas reservation plan

The government will require gas producers to save “up to” one-fifth of their production for the local market instead of a hard 20%, in a watering down of the policy.

Labor is releasing the draft legislation for the scheme this morning - the energy minister, Chris Bowen, industry minister Tim Ayres and resources minister, Madeleine King, are holding a press conference.

Here was the original plan, where the government said an oversupply of domestic gas would help to reduce prices for households and businesses.

But now the government has slightly changed its tune after consultation. Bowen says:

double quotation markThere is an obligation to supply gas to Australian industry. But there are other things where we’ve had suggestions about how we can effectively achieve that modest oversupply that we said all along was our objective and we’ve incorporated that in the design. So this sets us up for the future.

It’s good policy for certainty, it’s good policy for our environmental credentials as well. Our requirement in many ways, despite the complexity is modest. Keep up to 20% of your gas for Australians. So Australian gas should be for Australian use.

King says existing contractual obligations will remain the same.

The scheme will commence on 1 January 2027.

Andrew Hastie being dubbed a traitor is ‘disgraceful’, the Greens’ David Shoebridge says

They may not align politically, but Greens senator David Shoebridge has also come out swinging in defence of Andrew Hastie and his fight with One Nation.

Shoebridge tells News24 it’s “disgraceful” for One Nation to attack Andrew Hastie for giving evidence against Ben Roberts-Smith in his failed defamation trial.

And he sounds pretty furious too.

double quotation markI disagree with pretty much everything that comes out of Hastie’s mouth, like his whole suite of policies are things that I tend to oppose. I’m not saying it 100%, but pretty much everything comes out of his mouth.

But for the life of me, I can’t work out how any political party can stand by an attack on somebody because they go into court and they tell the truth as they understand it. And doing it in circumstances where you’re facing a whole bunch of pressure and the idea that you make that your political attack on somebody.

I mean it’s actually pretty fucking disgraceful to attack him for that.

‘No graver accusation’ than One Nation labelling Hastie a traitor, Paterson says

The shadow defence minister, James Paterson, has come out to bat for his colleague Andrew Hastie in his fight against One Nation.

Speaking to News24 earlier, the Victorian senator said the rightwing party had crossed a line and said they “should be ashamed of themselves”.

Paterson echoed the call of Hastie, that Pauline Hanson should take responsibility for the One Nation cartoon video labelling the SAS veteran a traitor, and called her weak for not owning it.

double quotation markI’m conscious that I’ve not served today in uniform. And like Pauline Hanson and James Ashby and most of One Nation, I would never dream of accusing someone who has served in uniform for our country of being a traitor. There’s no graver accusation to me particularly about someone like Andrew Hastie.

I think they should be ashamed of themselves. And I think Pauline Hanson showed her weakness last night in her interview with Chris Kenny, where she refused to take responsibility for a cartoon, which is pinned to the top of her X page, which she authorises, which she provides the voiceover for … she refused to take responsibility, but she also refused to repeat those words about Andrew Hastie. I think that shows weakness and I think, frankly, she should toughen up and take responsibility.

Lambie furious over ‘disgusting’ One Nation video calling Hastie a ‘traitor’

Jacqui Lambie, an independent senator and defence veteran, has blasted Pauline Hanson and One Nation’s cartoon video calling Andrew Hastie a traitor after he gave evidence against Ben Roberts-Smith in his failed defamation trial.

Lambie doesn’t mince her words. Like Hastie, Lambie says the video is an attack on all veterans and says Hanson is showing her “true colours”.

She tells RN Breakfast the cartoon should be removed immediately:

double quotation markWhat she’s doing in those cartoons is absolutely disgusting. They are full of bloody violence. I mean, how people can watch that rubbish is beyond me. But attacking Andrew Hastie, a veteran that has served in our Afghanistan war, or any other veteran, is the lowest ebb you can possibly do. That woman is nothing less than a bloody coward.

I tell you what, you’re seeing her true colours start to shine now. You watch this, the Australian people. Here comes coward Hanson. What needs to happen? I think what she should do is instead of saying, oh, it’s everybody else’s, these cartoons, those cartoons that she’s running out there, they are disgusting. They are absolutely disgusting. And she should remove that one of Hastie down right now today. And any veteran out there thinking about voting for One Nation or standing for them, I tell you what, you had better think twice.

Israeli government’s policies and actions ‘unconscionable’

Julian Hill says he’s been “extremely outspoken” about the increasing settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, but won’t say how far the government will go with new sanctions.

The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, this week announced the government would take more action against the settlements but wouldn’t follow the UK in implementing trade bans.

Hill tells RN Breakfast:

double quotation markThis is against international law and the current Israeli government’s policies and actions are unconscionable. The government has already taken significant steps. We’ve sanctioned Israeli ministers, we’ve sanctioned individuals, we’ve sanctioned entities.

We never speculate on specific measures before we take them. Sanctions are ultimately an expression, a serious powerful legal tool, an expression of our national interest looking at the international circumstance. And when the foreign minister signs off on new measures, she’ll announce them at that time.