What was claimed The verdict The Indigenous Voice to Parliament will provide “special rights” to one race of people in Australia.
VERDICT
False.
Legal and constitutional experts say the proposed Voice to Parliament will not provide anyone with “special rights”, but rather provide an opportunity to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to make representations to parliament on matters that impact them.
Mr Frydenberg’s claim is misleading.
The first reason is that the figures the Treasurer has quoted are from different years. Australia is sourced to 2020, New Zealand and Canada to 2019 and the OECD to 2018.
This inconsistency is particularly problematic as emissions figures to 2020 include large reductions as a result of the pandemic, and not government policy, while prior years do not.
Figures for 2020 are available for New Zealand, Canada and 32 of 38 OECD countries.
Gillard outperformed Abbott and Morrison when it came to bills passed by both houses. She topped the list when one considers the daily rate with which Acts were passed. Morrison and Abbott captains of Nope lagging considerably behind
The prime minister, Scott Morrison, and his treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, have both said voting for independent candidates in the federal election could lead to the “chaos” of a hung parliament. Scott Morrison Labor says rate rise highlights PM’s shredded credentials but Morrison insists it’s part of pandemic journey Read more However, a Guardian Australia analysis of legislation passed and not passed under various governments shows the minority government led by Julia Gillard actually had a better success rate in passing legislation than the Morrison government.
Last month Frydenberg warned in a media conference this was not the time to take a chance on “the chaos of a hung parliament”.
Similarly, when asked during an interview on Tuesday whether he would negotiate with independents, Morrison said he would not.
“This is a real question for the people who are voting at this election,” he told 3AW. “Voting for the independents is a vote for chaos.”
It should be noted that both of the above analyses do not count the number of bills lost to failed negotiations prior to the introduction of legislation.
However, in the context of minority governments, or governments that have a minority in the upper house, these indexes may give us an indication of which governments were better and worse in their negotiations with crossbenchers or the opposition.
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Scientists round the world are looking aghast at the politics of climate change in Australia.
It’s one of the most vulnerable countries on the planet to rising temperatures, yet there is still denial about the impacts of rising CO2 levels on events like the current wildfires.
There is no serious doubt among scientific institutions that rising global temperatures are leading to record heat.
The heatwaves are driven by a natural phenomenon but they are adding to an already over-heated planet.
In the election, the victorious Liberal (conservative) Party categorised climate change as a metropolitan fad for urban professionals, and gained support for the world’s biggest coal mine.
Coal is the dirtiest fuel and scientists say we shouldn’t be building more coal-fired power stations if we want to stabilise the climate.
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Earlier this year, Long was cleared by a mental-health specialist after an encounter with police.
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“When there is absolutely no curse or verbal abuse from Serena then giving her a game penalty is insane. You can’t do that. It is impossible.”
“She’s right [Serena Williams] when she says the men say 10 times worse and don’t even get a warning.”
via Serena Williams: Are female tennis players treated unfairly by umpires? – BBC News
The claim
Equality for Australian women has worsened dramatically since the beginning of this decade, with high levels of sexual harassment in the workplace, the former President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs, recently warned.
With the Turnbull Government’s proposed corporate tax cut stalled in the Upper House, the business lobby has been ramping up efforts to convince a handful of crossbench senators to pass the legislation.
In its rush to paint Labor as wild-eyed tax-and-spend merchants … the Coalition is deliberately over-egging the impact
American airports overnight became settings for heartbreak, frustration and panic as the Muslim ban kicked in. But the countries left off the list were telling.
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There are good reasons to doubt the prudence of Tony Abbott’s attack on public service jobs.
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The number of election commitments broken by the Abbott Government has jumped from eight to 12.
Since launching our election Promise Tracker in July, we’ve had requests from the audience – and the Prime Minister’s office – to examine more of the Coalition’s pre-election commitments.
We’ve added a dozen of the most popular requests into the mix, including Tony Abbott’s pledge to spend a week a year in an Indigenous community, the promise to send a Customs vessel to the Southern Ocean to monitor whaling, and the commitment to ensure the continuation of existing university funding arrangements.
Of the additions, one is delivered – the decision on Sydney’s second airport at Badgerys Creek; four are broken; two are stalled; and five are in progress.
But overall the Abbott Government is still delivering more than it’s breaking.
Here’s how the new promises change the tally: of the 78 promises now being tracked, 15 are delivered, 12 are broken, four are stalled and 47 are in progress.
Head to the Promise Tracker for the full picture and if you’re not already familiar with it, watch this video for a quick demo on how to use it.
Here’s an overview of the new promises and their statuses:
In April 2014, Prime Minister Tony Abbott confirmed the Government would help fund a second airport for Sydney at Badgerys Creek, fulfilling its pre-election promise to announce a site for the airport and ending decades of debate.
Tony Abbott repeatedly promised to spend a week a year in an Indigenous community. In his first year in Government, he spent four days in Arnhem Land, breaking his promise.
The Coalition said it was committed to sending an Australian Customs vessel to act as a “cop on the beat”, after confrontations between anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd and Japanese whalers in 2013.
This year’s whaling season ended in March, with a plane – but not a vessel – being sent to monitor whaling in the Southern Ocean.
The Coalition vowed to publish a cost-benefit analysis before funding any infrastructure project over $100 million. It broke that promise, by paying $1 billion to Victoria for the second stage of the East West Link before any analysis was released.
Tony Abbott repeatedly promised he wouldn’t “move the goalposts” on superannuation and would make sure there were no more negative, unexpected changes to the system.
He broke that promise when increases to the superannuation guarantee were delayed until July 2021.
The Coalition’s Real Solutions booklet released in January 2013 promised a continuation of the “current arrangements” for university funding.
But in its first budget in May this year, the Government announced significant changes to higher education funding.
The Government is still trying to get these reforms passed in the Senate.
Part of the direct action plan the Coalition took to the election included rebates for an additional one million solar panels or hot water systems over 10 years.
Days before the election, then opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt said the rebate had halved from $1,000 to $500. The 2014-15 budget contained no funds for the scheme.
In 2013, then opposition defence spokesman David Johnston promised to build Australia’s new submarine fleet in Adelaide.
Talks with Japan have attracted controversy, but the Coalition said before the election it would take 18 months to come to a decision.
The Coalition promised to provide $700 million in funding to the Toowoomba Second Range Crossing.
The 2014-15 budget commits up to $1.285 billion to the project. Construction will begin in mid 2015.
In his campaign launch speech in August 2013, Tony Abbott pledged to help make child care more affordable and accessible.
Soon after being elected he announced a major national inquiry into the sector, with a report expected for public release before the end of 2014.
Despite the Coalition’s plans for revised Fair Work laws, Tony Abbott said before the election penalty rates would not be wound back.
The Government has introduced legislation which has attracted criticism that it might leave workers worse off.
The Coalition said growing higher education as an export industry – by increasing international student enrolments – would be a priority within the first six months of Government.
Three months after the election, enrolments were up 2 per cent, and by June 30 enrolments were up 11.5 per cent compared with the first six months of 2013.
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