July 24, 2025 • 15 mins
When parliament returned this week, the seating chart said it all. With 123 Labor members in the parliament – the government is taking up much of the room.
But it was the Nationals taking the oxygen with their growing calls to abandon net zero. Their position is at odds with science, economics and many within the joint party room.
Meanwhile Opposition Leader Sussan Ley is trying to keep the Coalition on life support as their popularity sinks to its lowest level in 40 years for the coalition is at the lowest it's been in 40 years.
Today, contributing editor for The New Daily, Amy Remeikis, on the mess and mayhem of the first week back in parliament.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is now my duty and my honor to declare
the forty eighth Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia open.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
When Parliament returned this week, the seating chart set at
all with one hundred and twenty three Labor members in Parliament.
The Government is taking up much of the room, but
it was the Nationals taking the oxygen with their growing
calls to abandon that zero. Their position is at odds
with Science, Economics and many within the Joint Party Room
(00:32):
as Susan Lee tries to keep the coalition on life support.
Support for the Coalition is the lowest it's been in
forty years. I'm Daniel James, and you're listening to seven
AM today Contributing editor for the New Daily, Amy Remikus
on the mess and mayhem of the first week back
(00:52):
in Parliament. It's Friday, July twenty five, Amy, thanks for
speaking with me. It's a new parliament. Albanese's thumping majority
is on full display. So how is he talking about
his mandate?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Yeah, Anthony Albanezi has stuck to the message that he
started pretty much straight after the election win, when it
became clear that Labor not only had a majority, they
had a thumping majority in the House of Representatives.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So he has been on this we are going to remain.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Humble, let's stay away from hubris, while also at the
same time saying we have a mandate and this is
going to be what he's calling a.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Year of delivery. That is our focus.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
We've just been through an election, we had clear commitments
and we want to deliver them.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
He said it practically in every single media interview that
he has done since parliament started, and what he's doing
there is trying to signal to people who have been
frustrated at the lack of the action of the Albanese
government in the last three years. He's trying to say
to those people, now we're actually going to start in
(02:08):
acting policy. The question is, though, whether what they want
to enact is actually going to go anywhere near close
enough to addressing all of those major issues that all
of us are experiencing.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
So what is he actually promising to deliver in this
year of delivery?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
So the first up was reducing existing hex loans by
twenty percent.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
We have a good education system in Australia today, but
the truth is it can be better and it can
be fairer, and this bill is part of that.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
That legislation was the first piece of legislation that went
into the Parliament, which they've made a very big song
and dance over, but it has to be said, does
kind of distract from the fact that they haven't actually
addressed the fee increases that the Morrison government put in
place for incoming university students.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Now the opposition have a chance to get this right,
not just by voting for it, but actually speaking in
support of it.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
So while if you've got an existing debt, you are
going to save, you know, a couple of one hundred
to a couple of thousand dollars a year by the
reduction in your debt, if you're entering in university, you're
going to be paying higher fees for a whole lot
of courses because the Albanese government hasn't got around to
implementing any parts of the review that it is.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Doing on university fees.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
They are enshrining the new penalty rate changes and they've
also addressed some of the concerns around childcare safety when
it comes to workers and effectively, what that bill does
is that if childcare centers do not maintain national minimum standards.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
If they start slipping, they can lose their federal funding.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
The government this week was also one of twenty eight
countries we signed a letter demanding an immediate end to
the war in Gaza and for Israel lift aid restrictions.
How significant is.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
That look in terms of language, it is significant because
this is the strongest that the Australian.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Government has been on it.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
But it doesn't actually have any concrete action behind it.
There are some sanctions on individual settlers, but that's to.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Do with the West Bank. That's not to do with
what is.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Actually happening in Gaza. But beyond that there hasn't been
much action. And in fact we saw stronger action in
the Parliament just this week when the Senate, with the
Government and the Coalition banding together to chastise Green Senator
Marine Feruki for her protest in the Senate on the
(04:47):
day that the Parliament opened.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
The Gada is starvin thanking it.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
She held up a sign saying Gaza is starving. Words
won't feed them sanction Israel. Now that set off a
whole chain of events in the Senate where we spend
a lot of time on Wednesday discussing the disrespect that
Marine Ferruki showed to the Senate.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Your actions during the Governor General's address were utterly disrespectful
and showed a complete disregard for the rules, the traditions
and the customs of this place.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
And so while she wasn't officially censured, the Senate did
pass emotion expressing its displeasure and asking her to apologize.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Labor and the coalition in this chamber wants to avoid
the truth. You don't want to see it or hear it.
And now here we are you want me, you want
forced me to apologize for telling the truth. Well well done.
You can all patch yourselves on the back and move on,
move on while Palestinians are slaughtered.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
The juxtaposition to that was on the same day that
Marine Ferruki did her protest One Nation, senators turned their
back on Mass on the indigenous Welcome to Country ceremony.
It was done on that most sacred day of Parliament openings,
when you know the sovereign representative, the Governor General was
in the Parliament, which was a very big deal apparently
(06:17):
for Marine Ferruki, But there was nothing.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Done about One Nation.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
And so this is also at a time when there
were hundreds of people protesting outside the Parliament for Gaza,
for the Australian government to actually act. And while the
government keeps pointing to the statement, and you've had senior
ministers like Tony Burke come out and say Australians are
just sick of seeing the slaughter. We're not actually seeing
(06:45):
any action. So significant on words, not very significant in
the big picture.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
After the break, Barnaby Joyce yelling out a cloud. I
mean this week we had an extraordinary display from the
Nationals really highlighting the challenge that Susan Lee faces as
(07:14):
he tries to hold together the coalition. Can you tell
me about the fight over net zero?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
This is so ridiculous, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Like it's just I couldn't possibly comment so effectively.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
What has happened is that Barnaby Joyce, who has been
anti net zero from date dot and who has rebuilt
his political career multiple times by being anti renewables, by
being anti net zero, he has now taken that fight
to the Nationals party room and he is saying to them,
our constituency does not want renewables. It is going to
(07:49):
destroy them. We need to actually stop net zero.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
If you get rid of net zero, then what does
our energy system look like?
Speaker 5 (07:57):
So what's the point of us doing this if the
rest of the of the world, majority of the economies.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Of the world's.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Though zero.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Now all of this is just happening in the national's heads.
It has zero impact on Australian policy. This bill to
scrap and at zero that Barnaby Joyce wants to put
through the Parliament, it's not going anywhere. It might as
well just be a piece of paper that he's yelling
at a cloud with.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
He used to have the chiefs power in the world,
with those evil coll fire power stations. You just have
really cheap, reliable power. Now you've got really unreliable, hellishly
expensive power. And it's on the premise of you trying
to achieve this ludicrous idea that Australia and the minority
of the globe can somehow change droughts, change cyclones, reduce
the extinction of species because Australia is going to change
(08:43):
the temperature of the weather, which Unit is worried about.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Miss but it is hijacking the conversation and that's the point.
He wants to continue to suck up as much oxygen
as possible he joined forces with Michael McCormack, the former
leader of the Nationals Party, who he toppled to.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Get back the Nationals leadership.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
But the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and
David Little Proud is the enemy of both of those men.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
So you've got a pincer movement happening within the Nationals.
You've got the net zero attack.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
You've got those who don't like David Little Proud as
the leader joining forces to basically say we are going
to destroy the coalition if we have to in order
to get our way on this.
Speaker 8 (09:28):
Mister Speaker, This new parliament begins after an election where,
to be frank, the Coalition.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Would have preferred a different result. That is the nature
of democracy.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
You mentioned Susan Lee's job there, I mean still in
the party. Most people consider Susan Lee to be a placeholder,
and I think that what we have seen this week
from the Nationals show that she does not actually have
authority over the joint Coalition party room.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Thank you very much, mister Speaker.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
Well, colleagues, it feels a little bit like back to
the future coming in here, and the reason for that
is because we all recall those of us that were
here when we left parliament. The jeering, the sneering, the
hubris and the born to rule attitude from this Labor
Prime Minister and this Labor government, I mean.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Place hold her or not. Susanly also tried to set
the tone this week with her party room. The coaltion
is going into the new turn with lower support they've
had in forty years. So how is she handled the
first week?
Speaker 7 (10:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Mostly with delusion. She is definitely leading with.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Delulu is the Sululu as the way to get through
this part of the coalition's history.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
There was the exceptionally awkward meeting.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
With Anthony Albanizi at the church where ahead of Parliament,
where they basically both acted like divorced parents who had
not seen each other in twenty years having to get
together for the kid's wedding.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
It was very, very frosty.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
She came out of the church steps and immediately started
right back into the politics, talk about how this government
needed to be held to account and her coalition was
the ones to do that. And then she told her
party room that the government just wants the coalition to
get out of the way, for the opposition to stop
(11:14):
being obstructionist. But they're not going to get out of
the way because the Australian people just want the government
to get out of the way, which is a bold
statement for somebody who has been left with twenty nine
percent of seats in the House of Representatives.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Is that what we can expect from her more of
that type of rhetoric when it comes to working with
the government, And is that a risk given how low
her party support is and how dominant Labor is right now?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
It's a complete risk.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I mean, part of the reason that she's handstrung is
that every policy under the coalition is under review, which
is standard after an election. It is quite normal to
have all of your policies under review. But they don't
even have a position. They don't even have like a
start position.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
On where they want to go on this.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
And so that just means that they're falling back onto
old positions even when they come up with positions. Though,
given what we've seen from the Nationals, given what we
know other tensions within the Liberal party room itself, it's
probably not going to play well for them anyway, because
they haven't actually worked out a what it is they
stand for, b what it is they want the Australian
(12:25):
people to think of them and see how they actually
ever get back to government.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
So, finally, Amy, given what we've seen this week, how
would you characterize this term of parliament that we're likely
to have based on the first week?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
MESSI it's going to be messy.
Speaker 9 (12:43):
Labor do have a giant majority in the House of Representatives,
and as much as you want to pretend like that's
not going to give you sub hubris, of course it is.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
The Senate is still the main game, and as we
saw this week, the Coalition and Labor are still going
to play respectability politics when it suits them.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
That doesn't particularly.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Vote well in terms of the Greens or the Independents
actually managing to have some of their agenda put up.
But I think it's just going to be messy, and
not necessarily even because of the parliamentary personalities. There are
so many outside influences. There is so much happening in
the global space. The world is effectively on fire, and
(13:25):
so while there are massive domestic issues to be addressed,
I do think it's going to be largely overshadowed by
what is happening overseas and how the government.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Responds to that.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Amy great the heavy on the show again, thanks for your.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Time, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Also in the use, the US says it's made agriculture
great again as Australia relaxis reached drictions on US beef imports.
No beef from the States has entered Australia since twenty
nineteen due to the risk of mad cow disease. The
US Agriculture Secretary said the relaxed restrictions were another example
of the kind of market access the President negotiates to
(14:15):
bring America into a new Golden age of prosperity. Meanwhile,
the Albanesi government insists the decision was made based on
science and not as part of wider tariff negotiations, and
the New South Wales Court of Appeal has knocked back
a coal mine expansion in the Upper Hunter region. The
ruling followed a campaign by a community environment group who
(14:35):
successfully argued that the state's Planning Commission failed to consider
the impact of the projects greenhouse gas emissions when approving
the expansion. If it went ahead, Mac Energy's Mount Pleasant
coal mine expansion would have made it the largest in
the state. The community group demed Heg, said they hoped
their win has wider implications for fossil fuel projects across
(14:56):
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It is now my duty and my honor to declare
the forty eighth Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia open.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
When Parliament returned this week, the seating chart set at
all with one hundred and twenty three Labor members in Parliament.
The Government is taking up much of the room, but
it was the Nationals taking the oxygen with their growing
calls to abandon that zero. Their position is at odds
with Science, Economics and many within the Joint Party Room
(00:32):
as Susan Lee tries to keep the coalition on life support.
Support for the Coalition is the lowest it's been in
forty years. I'm Daniel James, and you're listening to seven
AM today Contributing editor for the New Daily, Amy Remikus
on the mess and mayhem of the first week back
(00:52):
in Parliament. It's Friday, July twenty five, Amy, thanks for
speaking with me. It's a new parliament. Albanese's thumping majority
is on full display. So how is he talking about
his mandate?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Yeah, Anthony Albanezi has stuck to the message that he
started pretty much straight after the election win, when it
became clear that Labor not only had a majority, they
had a thumping majority in the House of Representatives.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So he has been on this we are going to remain.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Humble, let's stay away from hubris, while also at the
same time saying we have a mandate and this is
going to be what he's calling a.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Year of delivery. That is our focus.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
We've just been through an election, we had clear commitments
and we want to deliver them.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
He said it practically in every single media interview that
he has done since parliament started, and what he's doing
there is trying to signal to people who have been
frustrated at the lack of the action of the Albanese
government in the last three years. He's trying to say
to those people, now we're actually going to start in
(02:08):
acting policy. The question is, though, whether what they want
to enact is actually going to go anywhere near close
enough to addressing all of those major issues that all
of us are experiencing.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
So what is he actually promising to deliver in this
year of delivery?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
So the first up was reducing existing hex loans by
twenty percent.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
We have a good education system in Australia today, but
the truth is it can be better and it can
be fairer, and this bill is part of that.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
That legislation was the first piece of legislation that went
into the Parliament, which they've made a very big song
and dance over, but it has to be said, does
kind of distract from the fact that they haven't actually
addressed the fee increases that the Morrison government put in
place for incoming university students.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Now the opposition have a chance to get this right,
not just by voting for it, but actually speaking in
support of it.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
So while if you've got an existing debt, you are
going to save, you know, a couple of one hundred
to a couple of thousand dollars a year by the
reduction in your debt, if you're entering in university, you're
going to be paying higher fees for a whole lot
of courses because the Albanese government hasn't got around to
implementing any parts of the review that it is.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Doing on university fees.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
They are enshrining the new penalty rate changes and they've
also addressed some of the concerns around childcare safety when
it comes to workers and effectively, what that bill does
is that if childcare centers do not maintain national minimum standards.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
If they start slipping, they can lose their federal funding.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
The government this week was also one of twenty eight
countries we signed a letter demanding an immediate end to
the war in Gaza and for Israel lift aid restrictions.
How significant is.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
That look in terms of language, it is significant because
this is the strongest that the Australian.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Government has been on it.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
But it doesn't actually have any concrete action behind it.
There are some sanctions on individual settlers, but that's to.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Do with the West Bank. That's not to do with
what is.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Actually happening in Gaza. But beyond that there hasn't been
much action. And in fact we saw stronger action in
the Parliament just this week when the Senate, with the
Government and the Coalition banding together to chastise Green Senator
Marine Feruki for her protest in the Senate on the
(04:47):
day that the Parliament opened.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
The Gada is starvin thanking it.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
She held up a sign saying Gaza is starving. Words
won't feed them sanction Israel. Now that set off a
whole chain of events in the Senate where we spend
a lot of time on Wednesday discussing the disrespect that
Marine Ferruki showed to the Senate.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Your actions during the Governor General's address were utterly disrespectful
and showed a complete disregard for the rules, the traditions
and the customs of this place.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
And so while she wasn't officially censured, the Senate did
pass emotion expressing its displeasure and asking her to apologize.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Labor and the coalition in this chamber wants to avoid
the truth. You don't want to see it or hear it.
And now here we are you want me, you want
forced me to apologize for telling the truth. Well well done.
You can all patch yourselves on the back and move on,
move on while Palestinians are slaughtered.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
The juxtaposition to that was on the same day that
Marine Ferruki did her protest One Nation, senators turned their
back on Mass on the indigenous Welcome to Country ceremony.
It was done on that most sacred day of Parliament openings,
when you know the sovereign representative, the Governor General was
in the Parliament, which was a very big deal apparently
(06:17):
for Marine Ferruki, But there was nothing.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Done about One Nation.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
And so this is also at a time when there
were hundreds of people protesting outside the Parliament for Gaza,
for the Australian government to actually act. And while the
government keeps pointing to the statement, and you've had senior
ministers like Tony Burke come out and say Australians are
just sick of seeing the slaughter. We're not actually seeing
(06:45):
any action. So significant on words, not very significant in
the big picture.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
After the break, Barnaby Joyce yelling out a cloud. I
mean this week we had an extraordinary display from the
Nationals really highlighting the challenge that Susan Lee faces as
(07:14):
he tries to hold together the coalition. Can you tell
me about the fight over net zero?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
This is so ridiculous, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Like it's just I couldn't possibly comment so effectively.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
What has happened is that Barnaby Joyce, who has been
anti net zero from date dot and who has rebuilt
his political career multiple times by being anti renewables, by
being anti net zero, he has now taken that fight
to the Nationals party room and he is saying to them,
our constituency does not want renewables. It is going to
(07:49):
destroy them. We need to actually stop net zero.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
If you get rid of net zero, then what does
our energy system look like?
Speaker 5 (07:57):
So what's the point of us doing this if the
rest of the of the world, majority of the economies.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Of the world's.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Though zero.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Now all of this is just happening in the national's heads.
It has zero impact on Australian policy. This bill to
scrap and at zero that Barnaby Joyce wants to put
through the Parliament, it's not going anywhere. It might as
well just be a piece of paper that he's yelling
at a cloud with.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
He used to have the chiefs power in the world,
with those evil coll fire power stations. You just have
really cheap, reliable power. Now you've got really unreliable, hellishly
expensive power. And it's on the premise of you trying
to achieve this ludicrous idea that Australia and the minority
of the globe can somehow change droughts, change cyclones, reduce
the extinction of species because Australia is going to change
(08:43):
the temperature of the weather, which Unit is worried about.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Miss but it is hijacking the conversation and that's the point.
He wants to continue to suck up as much oxygen
as possible he joined forces with Michael McCormack, the former
leader of the Nationals Party, who he toppled to.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Get back the Nationals leadership.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
But the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and
David Little Proud is the enemy of both of those men.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
So you've got a pincer movement happening within the Nationals.
You've got the net zero attack.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
You've got those who don't like David Little Proud as
the leader joining forces to basically say we are going
to destroy the coalition if we have to in order
to get our way on this.
Speaker 8 (09:28):
Mister Speaker, This new parliament begins after an election where,
to be frank, the Coalition.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Would have preferred a different result. That is the nature
of democracy.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
You mentioned Susan Lee's job there, I mean still in
the party. Most people consider Susan Lee to be a placeholder,
and I think that what we have seen this week
from the Nationals show that she does not actually have
authority over the joint Coalition party room.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Thank you very much, mister Speaker.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
Well, colleagues, it feels a little bit like back to
the future coming in here, and the reason for that
is because we all recall those of us that were
here when we left parliament. The jeering, the sneering, the
hubris and the born to rule attitude from this Labor
Prime Minister and this Labor government, I mean.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Place hold her or not. Susanly also tried to set
the tone this week with her party room. The coaltion
is going into the new turn with lower support they've
had in forty years. So how is she handled the
first week?
Speaker 7 (10:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Mostly with delusion. She is definitely leading with.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Delulu is the Sululu as the way to get through
this part of the coalition's history.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
There was the exceptionally awkward meeting.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
With Anthony Albanizi at the church where ahead of Parliament,
where they basically both acted like divorced parents who had
not seen each other in twenty years having to get
together for the kid's wedding.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
It was very, very frosty.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
She came out of the church steps and immediately started
right back into the politics, talk about how this government
needed to be held to account and her coalition was
the ones to do that. And then she told her
party room that the government just wants the coalition to
get out of the way, for the opposition to stop
(11:14):
being obstructionist. But they're not going to get out of
the way because the Australian people just want the government
to get out of the way, which is a bold
statement for somebody who has been left with twenty nine
percent of seats in the House of Representatives.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Is that what we can expect from her more of
that type of rhetoric when it comes to working with
the government, And is that a risk given how low
her party support is and how dominant Labor is right now?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
It's a complete risk.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I mean, part of the reason that she's handstrung is
that every policy under the coalition is under review, which
is standard after an election. It is quite normal to
have all of your policies under review. But they don't
even have a position. They don't even have like a
start position.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
On where they want to go on this.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
And so that just means that they're falling back onto
old positions even when they come up with positions. Though,
given what we've seen from the Nationals, given what we
know other tensions within the Liberal party room itself, it's
probably not going to play well for them anyway, because
they haven't actually worked out a what it is they
stand for, b what it is they want the Australian
(12:25):
people to think of them and see how they actually
ever get back to government.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
So, finally, Amy, given what we've seen this week, how
would you characterize this term of parliament that we're likely
to have based on the first week?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
MESSI it's going to be messy.
Speaker 9 (12:43):
Labor do have a giant majority in the House of Representatives,
and as much as you want to pretend like that's
not going to give you sub hubris, of course it is.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
The Senate is still the main game, and as we
saw this week, the Coalition and Labor are still going
to play respectability politics when it suits them.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
That doesn't particularly.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Vote well in terms of the Greens or the Independents
actually managing to have some of their agenda put up.
But I think it's just going to be messy, and
not necessarily even because of the parliamentary personalities. There are
so many outside influences. There is so much happening in
the global space. The world is effectively on fire, and
(13:25):
so while there are massive domestic issues to be addressed,
I do think it's going to be largely overshadowed by
what is happening overseas and how the government.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Responds to that.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Amy great the heavy on the show again, thanks for your.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Time, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Also in the use, the US says it's made agriculture
great again as Australia relaxis reached drictions on US beef imports.
No beef from the States has entered Australia since twenty
nineteen due to the risk of mad cow disease. The
US Agriculture Secretary said the relaxed restrictions were another example
of the kind of market access the President negotiates to
(14:15):
bring America into a new Golden age of prosperity. Meanwhile,
the Albanesi government insists the decision was made based on
science and not as part of wider tariff negotiations, and
the New South Wales Court of Appeal has knocked back
a coal mine expansion in the Upper Hunter region. The
ruling followed a campaign by a community environment group who
(14:35):
successfully argued that the state's Planning Commission failed to consider
the impact of the projects greenhouse gas emissions when approving
the expansion. If it went ahead, Mac Energy's Mount Pleasant
coal mine expansion would have made it the largest in
the state. The community group demed Heg, said they hoped
their win has wider implications for fossil fuel projects across
(14:56):
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