Via the AFR:
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has delayed a week of Parliament ostensibly to give Lower House MPs more time to debate same-sex marriage legislation.
But it will also minimise the government’s risk of embarrassingly losing votes in the House of Representatives and effectively raises the white flag on the passage of any more legislation this year, including the legislation of the next round of company tax cuts.
The delay also pushes back the date for lower house MPs to reveal their citizenship status by 8pm on December 5, meaning the government has broken a deal with Labor to have the disclosures done by December 1.
Leader of the House Christopher Pyne announced on Monday morning the House of Representatives would not resume on November 27 as scheduled but come back a week later. The Senate is still scheduled to resume on November 27.
Good progress on doing nothing there. Then there is this Lol:
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has urged Queensland voters to turn against Labor Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk in Saturday’s state election, describing it as a “lazy, do nothing green left government” which has lead to higher power prices and threatened the future of the state’s $50 billion coal industry.
In a dramatic intervention in the state election campaign, Mr Turnbull said only the LNP would be able deliver much needed energy and water policies accusing Ms Palaszczuk of playing politics by refusing to take federal money for projects.
It comes as Labor’s scare campaign about the Liberal National Party forming government with One Nation has been paying dividends, with the Palaszczuk government looking like it might scrape home for a second term in Saturday’s election.
Mr Turnbull, who made his first appearance of the state election campaign at the LNP campaign launch in Brisbane on Sunday, said the Palaszczuk government had become “beholden to a green left agenda”.
Little bit of projection there.
