Albanese says welcome to international locations not controversial – ‘nor ought to it’s’
Going again to Anthony Albanese’s handle to the nice corridor, he stated the welcome to nation is a “highly effective manner” to start a brand new parliament.
Welcome to nation ceremonies have been politicised during the election campaign, however the PM says they aren’t controversial.
This ceremony didn’t happen till 2007 and was controversial in 2007. It’s not controversial as we speak. Nor ought to it’s. It’s a respectful manner of us starting our deliberations right here in Canberra, which in fact means assembly place. What a welcome to nation does is holds out like a hand warmly and graciously prolonged. A chance for us to embrace and to indicate a profound love of house and nation.
Albanese says Australia is a “lovely set of contradictions”, being each a “youthful nation” in addition to the “world’s oldest steady tradition”.
Key occasions
As we introduced you earlier, prime minister Anthony Albanese and opposition chief Sussan Ley each addressed the nice corridor after a Welcome to Nation by Aunty Violet Sheridan.
You’ll be able to see among the prime minister’s handle right here:
Parliament is formally opened
The Deputy of the Governor-Common, appointed by Governor-Common Sam Mostyn, has formally declared open the Parliament for a forty eighth time.
Now all of the MPs file again to the Home of Representatives, following the usher of the black rod.
The Senate will shortly elect its president, and the Home will elect its speaker (the place they’ll be dragged to the chair).
Mostyn will arrive at parliament to handle the members and senators herself a bit later this afternoon.
We’ve got some extra pics of the Smoking Ceremony exterior parliament home this morning.
You’ll be able to see new MPs together with Ali France, who defeated former Liberal chief Peter Dutton, in addition to our two tallest MPs (I consider), Matt Smith, the brand new Labor MP for Leichhardt in Queensland, and Dan Repacholi, the Labor MP for Hunter.
The bells are ringing!
For the primary time in additional than 100 days, the bells are ringing within the chambers.
The deputy of the governor normal, chief justice of the excessive court docket and a justice of the excessive court docket are within the Senate.
The usher of the black rod is at present strolling over from the Senate to the Home to deliver all of the members over to the decrease home (the place it’s a decent squeeze to suit everybody).
As I stated, a lot of pomp and ceremony as we speak.
Money says Australian condemnation of Israel ‘disappointing’ and Hamas ought to be blamed for lack of assist
The shadow overseas minister says it’s “disappointing” that the federal government supported the assertion in a single day, with different international locations together with the UK and France, calling for an instantaneous ceasefire in Gaza.
Sussan Ley, after the ecumenical service this morning, instructed reporters the main focus ought to be on Hamas and releasing hostages. Her colleague and shadow frontbencher Jonno Duniam went additional on Sky Information, criticising the federal government and calling the assertion “alarming”.
The shadow overseas minister, Michaelia Money, has additionally launched a press release, saying any “ethical outrage” ought to be directed at Hamas.
It’s disturbing however not stunning that Hamas has welcomed the assertion signed by the Albanese authorities…
It’s important that assist flows into Gaza, however sadly Hamas has not a been permitting this assist to circulation freely. Correct portions of meals and different assist should be supplied to the folks of Gaza.
The Albanese authorities’s determination accountable Israel for Hamas’s disruption of the circulation of assist is appalling.
Labor may have a (actually) sprawling majority on this parliament, and also you’ll be capable to see it most clearly within the Home of Representatives chamber.
The federal government has launched a seating chart displaying which MPs shall be desk buddies. You’ll be able to have a bit extra of a learn of that right here:
Safety measures at Parliament Home stay egalitarian
Safety is tighter than ordinary at Parliament Home as we speak, with a lot of the ceremonial welcome actions closed off to most people and the principle entry doorways briefly shut down because of the politicians submitting out and in.
It meant that one essential door downstairs was far busier than ordinary – and even well-known faces didn’t get a shortcut. We noticed Julie Bishop, the previous Liberal overseas minister and now United Nations particular envoy on Myanmar, lining up quietly behind a protracted queue alongside different staffers and entrants to Parliament Home this morning.
Bishop appeared to ask safety if there was a faster manner in, however a customer information indicated it was the one door working on the time. It’s an egalitarian constructing. The road moved rapidly, and the UN envoy made her manner in.
Coalition to again Hecs debt cuts
Caitlin Cassidy
The Coalition will assist laws to chop pupil debt by 20%, the shadow schooling minister has confirmed, in a coverage backflip for the reason that federal election marketing campaign.
Leaping again to his interview on Sky Information this morning, Jonno Duniam, stated it was “our intention” to again the invoice.
It was … one of many centrepieces of the federal government’s agenda on the final election and clearly we had a view that was not supported by Australians, so we’ll work with them. We’ve got our issues, they continue to be. We’ll speak about these, however I count on them to move parliament.
The previous shadow schooling minister, senator Sarah Henderson, stated final yr the coverage was “profoundly unfair” and signalled Labor had “given up on the combat towards inflation”.
Requested if the Coalition could be much less of the “no-alition” this time period of parliament, as Anthony Albanese said yesterday, Duniam stated backing schooling was within the nationwide curiosity.
While you’ve bought all of our metrics – requirements in literacy, numeracy, science, historical past – all heading downward, funding going up, I’m unsure how arguing about stuff across the edges goes to assist us cope with points within the nationwide curiosity. Training and academic outcomes are within the nationwide curiosity, and I stand able to work with Labor on good outcomes there.
Josh Butler
Ceremonies proceed with smoking ceremony exterior Parliament Home
The welcome to nation has concluded in Parliament Home, however the scent of eucalyptus smoke nonetheless hangs heavy within the air within the constructing’s essential lobby.
Parliamentarians and their households are buzzing via the halls this morning, with numerous ceremonial actions to mark the opening of the forty eighth parliament.
As Krishani has been bringing you this morning, that included a welcome to nation and a smoking ceremony on the entrance forecourt of Parliament Home.
Dozens and dozens of MPs and senators filed from the Nice Corridor exterior onto the forecourt, being invited to waft smoke over their our bodies from a hearth burning in a trough on the cobbled flooring.
Many have been accompanied at first of parliament by their spouses, youngsters and even dad and mom, taking completely happy snaps and introducing their households to colleagues.
The ceremonies will proceed via the day, and we’ll deliver you extra.
Welcome to Nation ceremony: in photos
We’ve got pics of the Welcome to Nation and smoking ceremony this morning at Parliament Home.
The usher of the black rod led a procession together with the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, his accomplice, Jodie Haydon, his son Nathan and others from the entrance of parliament, via the marble lobby and into the Nice Corridor.
Greens to introduce local weather set off invoice
The Greens say they’ll be introducing the primary invoice to be debated within the new parliament, to ascertain a “local weather set off”.
Meaning when contemplating whether or not or to not approve a brand new mission like a coalmine, the federal government would want to consider the influence it could have on the local weather. This isn’t a brand new thought, however one the federal government hasn’t dedicated to as but.
Larissa Waters, the Greens chief, says it is going to be launched within the Senate tomorrow as a personal senators’ invoice.
Our invoice would drive the local weather impacts of initiatives to be thought-about by the minister, and it could additionally guarantee mega-polluting initiatives can’t get environmental approval in any respect …
Soiled fossil gasoline initiatives have to be correctly assessed for his or her impacts and rejected, so our children, and all the valuable species we share this lovely planet with, have a protected local weather future.
Why is the speaker dragged into the chair?
Later this morning, a wierd customized will happen within the Home of Representatives: the newly elected speaker will get actually dragged into their chair.
It’s a practice that started within the UK Home of Commons, because the outdated speaker’s operate was to speak the opinions of the frequent to the monarch.
Based on the UK parliamentary web site, when the monarch didn’t agree with that opinion, it might end result within the … early … demise of the speaker, so it’s not likely a job that many needed.
Again then, it was customized for the speaker-elect to wrestle and resist all the best way to the chair as they have been dragged into it.
That custom continues as we speak, and Milton Dick (who’s very more likely to be re-elected speaker) has tended to take pleasure in that course of extra!
Albanese says welcome to international locations not controversial – ‘nor ought to it’s’
Going again to Anthony Albanese’s handle to the nice corridor, he stated the welcome to nation is a “highly effective manner” to start a brand new parliament.
Welcome to nation ceremonies have been politicised during the election campaign, however the PM says they aren’t controversial.
This ceremony didn’t happen till 2007 and was controversial in 2007. It’s not controversial as we speak. Nor ought to it’s. It’s a respectful manner of us starting our deliberations right here in Canberra, which in fact means assembly place. What a welcome to nation does is holds out like a hand warmly and graciously prolonged. A chance for us to embrace and to indicate a profound love of house and nation.
Albanese says Australia is a “lovely set of contradictions”, being each a “youthful nation” in addition to the “world’s oldest steady tradition”.
Sussan Ley addresses Nice Corridor after welcome to nation
Following the prime minister, the opposition chief, Sussan Ley, makes an handle.
She says the work of “listening, appearing and striving for higher” is on the coronary heart of reconciliation.
Ley says the forty eighth parliament should work to enhance outcomes for Indigenous Australians, to enhance entry to schooling, healthcare, and handle home and household violence.
Allow us to strategy that work with resolve and with a shared dedication to actual and lasting progress. That work of listening, of appearing and of striving for higher is on the coronary heart of reconciliation and our nationwide story. Thanks once more Aunty Violet on your welcome for the opening of this new parliament. Might it set the tone as we recommit ourselves to the taking of sensible motion to enhance lives and broaden alternatives for Indigenous Australians in each a part of our nice nation.
PM addresses Nice Corridor after welcome to nation
The prime minister is now addressing the nice corridor – we’ll have some photos from the welcome to nation shortly.
Anthony Albanese pays his respects to Aunty Violet Sheridan, in addition to present and former ministers for Indigenous Australians, Malarndirri McCarthy, Linda Burney and Ken Wyatt:
With each step, we really feel the echoes via historical past, the footsteps almost a century distant from us now of each First Nations one who trekked to the opening of the primary Parliament Home down the hill. The footsteps of the members of the Stolen Generations who got here to this place 17 years in the past now to listen to the phrases that they wanted to listen to – “I’m sorry”…
Within the forty eighth parliament, we write the following chapter. Allow us to do it with the identical sense of grace and braveness that First Nations folks present us with their management.
Aunty Violet Sheridan delivers parliament’s welcome to nation
The Ngunnawal elder Aunty Violet Sheridan is giving the welcome to nation within the nice corridor.
She welcomes the prime minister, his fiancee, Jodie Haydon, his son Nathan, the opposition chief, Sussan Ley, the minister for Indigenous Australians, Malarndirri McCarthy, and others:
I stand right here as a proud Ngunnawal lady as I carry my ancestors in spirit. Strolling into future educating the following generations in regards to the oldest tradition on the earth, my tradition, the Ngunnawal Aboriginal tradition. This land, its eels and rivers is at all times was and at all times shall be Ngunnawal land. I honour my Ngunnawal ancestors who walked this nation earlier than me and who proceed to information me as we speak.
Gaza assertion ‘alarming’, Coalition MP says
Earlier this morning the Liberal frontbencher Jonno Duniam stated the federal government co-signing a press release condemning Israel for depriving Palestinians of “human dignity”, was an “alarming transfer”.
Duniam instructed Sky Information the letter “ignores” what Hamas was doing and turned a “blind eye” to how the battle began:
I believe it’s a slightly alarming transfer by the federal government to have connected itself to this letter … This give attention to what Israel is doing and to a level turning a blind eye to how this battle began on 7 October these years in the past, and the continued holding of hostages, I do know it mentions that however there may be extra to this subject than this letter portrays and I believe it’s a unhappy flip of occasions for our authorities to have joined with different international locations in signing this letter. I believe that it’s not the fitting strategy for the federal government to take.
Israel has rejected the joint assertion and stated it’s “disconnected from actuality”.
Sussan Ley this morning didn’t go so far as Duniam to criticise the federal government for signing the assertion but additionally stated the main focus ought to be on Hamas and returning hostages.
The day’s parliamentary agenda
With the ecumenical service completed and dusted, we’re preparing for the parliamentary procedures that may formally open the brand new parliament.
Listed here are among the essential occasions:
At 9am, there shall be a Welcome to Nation within the parliament’s Nice Corridor, adopted by a smoking ceremony simply exterior the entrance doorways.
At 10:30am the deputy of the governor normal will handle all MPs and senators within the Senate chamber to formally open the forty eighth parliament.
From 10:50am all the brand new senators and members shall be sworn in, and the brand new Home and Senate presidents are elected (it’s all however assured that Queensland MP Milton Dick shall be re-elected Home speaker and WA senator Sue Strains shall be re-elected Senate president).
After a little bit of a break between proceedings, the governor normal, Sam Mostyn, will arrive at parliament at 2pm. She is going to obtain a royal salute and see the brand new presiding officers of every home.
At 3pm all of the MPs and senators will return to the Senate chamber, the place Mostyn will handle the brand new parliament, and a 19-gun salute to mark the top of her handle.
Parliament will start sitting at 5pm, the place the primary couple of maiden speeches will start, together with Sarah Witty, the Melbourne MP who defeated former Greens chief Adam Bandt, and Ali France, the Dickson MP who defeated former Liberal chief Peter Dutton.
Meaning we’ll see the primary query time of the brand new parliament (which I do know we’re all tremendous excited for) on Wednesday.
Ley guarantees to be ‘constructive’
We’ve already seen a departure by Ley from the political playbook of Peter Dutton, promising to be a extra constructive opposition.
We’ll see a few of that this week, with the Coalition saying it desires to work with the federal government to urgently move reforms to childcare.
That actually doesn’t imply Labor shall be getting a free move – there’ll nonetheless be loads of debate, says Ley.
We’re completely happy to be constructive with the federal government, however I and my workforce shall be vital the place we have to be, and we received’t hesitate to carry the federal government to account, and that features for the guarantees that it has made.
So within the final parliament, you’d keep in mind that Australians have been promised a $275 minimize to their energy invoice, which by no means eventuated. Now main into this parliament, we noticed the prime minister make guarantees in regards to the variety of properties that may be constructed, and within the lead-up to the election, he additionally promised Australians would pay much less tax. However clearly there may be work happening to extend the taxes on hard-working Australians, and we all know this due to leaked Treasury recommendation.
That leaked advice – launched to the ABC beneath an FoI request – suggested the federal government to lift taxes and cut back spending to make the funds extra sustainable.
