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Senator Claire Moore Senator Claire Moore WEEKLY UPDATE: 7th December, 2018 Phone: (07) 3252 7101; email: [email protected]; Web:www.clairemoore.net; Twitter: www.twitter.com/SenClaireMoore; www.facebook.com/SenatorClaireMoore; THIS WEEK: The parliamentary year ended in chaos, confusion and ill-temper. The kids stay on Manus, the Prime Minister offered, of all things, a conscience vote on discrimination and the technology legislation passed through the parliament in the shape of the ‘Encryption Bill’ which needs to go back to committee. If it wasn’t for Labor our security agencies would have lacked the modern tools to better protect the safety of all Australians over the Christmas –New Year holiday period from immediate security threats. There is no doubt this legislation is flawed, even the Liberal majority on the intelligence committee inquiry acknowledged that it required major re-drafting accepting 172 amendments. But when the Bill was dropped into parliament few of those amendments had been made. It was symptomatic of the incompetence of this administration and Labor will seek the insertion of those amendments in the New Year. Shadow Attorney-General and Senator Penny Wong have produced some talking notes on the subject which are in this Update. As for the nastiness and disrespectful behaviour that has enveloped the Parliament in recent months I will leave you to decide what you think about it and how best to send your message to the culprits. Unfortunately it’s not just in Parliament we are seeing such behaviour, my electorate office had offensive leaflets shoved under the door and glued to its frame. [See photo] I would be only too happy to have a chat to the individuals responsible. Dialogue is much better than skulking around in the dark. On a happier note today, Friday December 7, is the first anniversary of the successful passing through Parliament of the ‘Marriage Equality Act’. Since then the total number of same-sex marriages celebrated nationwide had grown to 5,420 couples. SENATOR CLAIRE MOORE, LABOR SENATOR FOR QUEENSLAND CLAIRE’S WEEKLY UPDATE NEWSLETTER If there is material you would like included or expanded upon, please let us know. If you think that others would like to receive copies please let us know and we will include them on the mailing lists. Please contact us by return email or call on 07 3252 710. If you no longer wish to receive the weekly update and want to be removed from the mailing list just let us know. Postal: PO Box 907 Fortitude Valley Post Shop Fortitude Valley QLD 400 UNSUBCRIBE Authorised by Senator Claire Moore, Australian Labor Party, 421 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006 WHAT’S BEING SAID … LAST PARLIAMENTARY SITTING -SHORTEN - CANBERRA “We've seen perhaps the most irresponsible abandonment of national security lawmaking that I've seen in my time in Parliament. Today, because the Government and the Prime Minister didn't want to lose a vote about getting children off Nauru for medical treatment, they abandoned the national security laws of Australia, and as a result, abandoned their obligations to keeping Australians safer.” ENCRYPTION BILL-SHORTEN - CANBERRA “Because the encryption laws required 170 amendments, they were rushed, they had plenty of holes in them, plenty of opportunities for the hackers and other people to undo the import of the laws, the Government was required to amend those laws as well.” LAST PARLIAMENTARY SITTING -SHORTEN - CANBERRA “I think it is shameful they wouldn't deal with the laws which would prioritise the views of treating medical experts to get kids off Nauru when they're sick. I think it is a terrible shame that they wouldn't amend the laws to make the national encryption proposals even better and more efficient. But I couldn't go home and leave Australians over Christmas without some of the protections which we all agree are necessary.” LAST PARLIAMENTARY SITTING -SHORTEN - CANBERRA “The Government agreed that their rushed encryption laws had to be improved. They agreed in a Committee dominated by Liberal MPs - more Liberal MPs than Labor on it - unanimously agreed the encryption laws need to be improved. But because the other laws - getting the kids off Nauru - had to be dealt with first, they deliberately sabotaged the Parliament and went home rather than sit past 5 o'clock, which they've done on many occasions.” SCHOOL DISCRIMINATION - SHORTEN- CANBERRA “I believe that the substantial majority of our parliament wants to see discrimination against children - the right to discriminate against children removed from the nation's laws. It is therefore very disappointing that the Government in the lower house has chosen to put forward a proposal which will replace one form of discrimination with another. There is no set of circumstances where this Parliament should be voting to replace one set of laws permitting discrimination against children with another set of laws permitting discrimination against children. “ SCHOOL DISCRIMINATION - KENEALLY – ABC RN DRIVE “They say the schools need a right within the law to uphold their values, and their ethos, and to teach their doctrine. Our legal advice is clear – that schools already have that right, nothing in the removal of the exemption would remove those rights for schools to set rules around student behaviour and actions.” SCHOOL DISCRIMINATION - PLIBERSEK - CANBERRA “We now in the final week of the parliamentary sittings are in a situation that is so reminiscent of the marriage equality debate where individual senators, the conservatives in the Liberal Party, the Nationals and others, are all trying to introduce complicating amendments to something that really is very simple. I'm worried that this will go down the same route at the marriage equality debate. Someone will be suggesting a plebiscite next. Labor doesn't need a conscience vote because every member of the Labor Party agrees that it's wrong to discriminate against children. It's not complicated. In fact, I don't understand how anyone who claims to have a conscience can think that it's ok to discriminate against children.” SCHOOL DISCRIMINATION - KENEALLY – ABC RN DRIVE “What the Prime Minister is proposing is to allow his MPs to say ‘In my conscience, I think it’s a good thing to discriminate against a student – a child - because he or she is gay’.” SCHOOL DISCRIMINATION- PLIBERSEK – CANBERRA “It's shameful. This failure of the Government to legislate to remove discrimination against GLBTI children is absolutely shameful.” SCHOOL DISCRIMINATION- PLIBERSEK – CANBERRA “There is a Bill in the House of Representatives and a Bill in the Senate. If we vote on this today, we could get it done today. And instead what we've seen with this discrimination against children is all of the same tactics that were used in the marriage equality debate. Unnecessary amendments introduced, unnecessary concerns raised in the community by people who really just want to stop - either delay or stop entirely - the removal of this discrimination.” ENCRYPTION BILL-SHORTEN - CANBERRA “Because the encryption laws required 170 amendments, they were rushed, they had plenty of holes in them, plenty of opportunities for the hackers and other people to undo the import of the laws, the Government was required to amend those laws as well.” Authorised by Senator Claire Moore, Australian Labor Party, 421 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006 ENCRYPTION BILL - DREYFUS-ABC RN BREAKFAST “Labor puts the safety and security of Australians first. Our commitment to keeping Australians safe is unwavering and frankly those comments of the Prime Minister are simply ridiculous and it’s absolutely apparent that this desperate, incompetent Prime Minister just wants to fight for political reasons.” ENCRYPTION BILL - MCALLISTER – SKY NEWS AM AGENDA “I sit on the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence and Security. We have dealt with this legislation seriously from the day it was brought to us in September. We are seeking to work through a very complex Bill. We've had submissions before us from industry, from defence export, from security export firms, from lawyers, from civil liberties organisations saying there are serious deficiencies with the Bill. We've had advice from the Inspector General of Intelligence and Security that there are deficiencies in the Bill. We've had advice from the President of the Senate that the Bill does not appropriately protect Parliamentary Privilege. These are serious matters that ought to have been worked through frankly before the Bill was even brought to the Parliament.” GOVT’S ENERGY POLICY - BOWEN – CANBERRA “Meanwhile the Government’s one poor excuse for an energy policy has collapsed under its own weight. The Government’s fig leaf when it comes to electricity prices, its so-called big stick has overnight become a much littler stick. This ridiculous policy, this Venezuelan style intervention, this intervention in the economy which would chill investment has collapsed under its own weight. It was poor policy and it has shown to be poor policy.” GOVT ENERGY COMPANY DIVESTMENT POLICY - CHALMERS- SKY NEWS AM AGENDA “Our effort at the moment is to knock the policy over, because it's a disastrous policy. It will reduce investment and push power prices up, and will run the risk of power privatisations in Queensland. So we're putting all of our effort into making the case that this is a disastrous policy. Even the Queensland LNP leader - the state LNP leader! - has said rightly that Scott Morrison is completely out of touch with Queensland on this issue.” PRIVATISING ELECTRICITY SUPPLIERS - WATT – CANBERRA “The last two state elections in Queensland, in 2015 and 2017, were basically won by Labor on a platform of not privatising Queensland’s electricity assets. We all remember the chaos of Campbell Newman, which included trying to privatise electricity assets and it was followed up by Tim Nicholls in 2017 by wanting to do the same again.
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