The debate on Labor’s climate change bill sets up the first major test of the Albanese government’s relationship with the Senate crossbench.
The Greens and a key crossbencher want the new anti-corruption body to have funding set independently of the government of the day to protect the agency.
The Albanese government would have the numbers to axe the stage three tax cuts in the Senate.
David Pocock says Australia can’t afford to progress with “poor policy from the last parliament that puts questionable carbon credits into the system”.
Sophie Scamps,a GP before joining parliament,says Australia’s obesity epidemic is threatening to overwhelm the nation’s health system.
Once,a government went disco over killing a carbon tax. Now,a major climate change bill passes without so much as a high five. Climate wars are exhausting.
Independent Allegra Spender will use her first speech to canvass tax and expenditure reform while warning the Coalition faces more pain if it doesn’t change.
The Curtin MP used her first speech to parliament on Thursday to warn that humanity needed to start questioning the assumption that “more is always better”.
Wearing suffragette colours of purple and white,the ABC foreign correspondent turned MP used her first speech to parliament to explain her climate campaigning.
Anthony Albanese says the new parliament will ‘start with giving people respect’ - including a meeting with crossbench MPs ahead of parliament’s opening day.
New MPs cannot contribute to debate until they have given their “first speech”,so independent MPs are asking to be prioritised in order to debate climate and other policy.