July 21, 2025 • 14 mins
It's the start of Australia's 48th Parliament, with fresh faces finding their seats and Labor wasting no time pushing through major election promises.
We're taking you inside the opening week in Canberra, from new Liberal leader Sussan Ley's debut to those leaked Treasury documents that could spell trouble for Labor's spending plans.
And in headlines today Australia along with 24 other countries have demanded Israel immediately end its war in the Gaza Strip criticising the "inhumane killing" of Palestinians, including hundreds near food distribution sites; Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has slammed Mark Latham for what he calls his "repulsive" views, but a picture of the former Labor leader will remain hanging in the federal caucus room despite domestic violence accusations; The federal government has sent support to South Australia which is battling a massive, toxic algal bloom that has devastated the marine environment; Malcolm-Jamal Warner, the actor who played Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show, has died at the age of 54 in an accidental drowning in Costa Rica
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
You're listening to a Muma Mea podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Mumma Mea acknowledges the traditional owners of land and waters
that this podcast is recorded on.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Hey, I'm Taylorstrano.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
This is Muma MIA's twice daily news podcast, The Quickie.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
It's the formal start to a.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Brand new political error in Canberra, with fresh faces, big promises,
and a heap of headlines already.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
In just a few days.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Today we're taking you inside the opening week of Australia's
forty eighth parliament. Who's new, what's on the agenda, and
why things could look very different this time round. Before
we get there, here's Claire Murphy with the latest from
the Quickie newsroom for Tuesday, July twenty two.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Thanks Taylor. Australia, along with twenty four other countries, have
demanded Israel immediately end its war in the Gaza Strip,
criticizing the inhumane killing of Palestinians, including hundreds near food
distribution sites. In a joint statement from the Foreign Ministers
of Australia, France, it to Lee, Japan, the UK, Canada, Denmark,
New Zealand and others said more than eight hundred Palestinians
(01:15):
have been killed while seeking aid, condemning what it calls
the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians.
The statement points out that the majority of those killed
were in the vicinity of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, which
the United States and Israel back to take over a
distribution in the Gaza strip from a network led by
the United Nations, saying the Israeli government's aid delivery model
(01:37):
is dangerous, fuels instability and deprives Garzans of human dignity,
and that the suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached
new depths. Israel's Foreign Ministry said the statement was disconnected
from reality and would send the wrong message to Hamas,
saying the statement fails to focus the pressure on Hamas
and fails to recognize Hamas's role and responsibility for the situation.
(01:59):
Prime Minister Anthony Albnezi has slammed Mark Latham for what
he calls his repulsive views, but a picture of the
former Labour leader will remain hanging in the Federal Caucus
room despite domestic VNE violence accusations. Mister Latham is accused
by his former partner Natalie Mathews, offers sustained pattern of
abuse and degradation. The New South Wales State MP strongly
(02:19):
denying the untested claims made in a civil court apprehended
violence order application by Miss Matthews, saying he has broken
no laws. The Labour Caucus on Monday agreed that mister
Latham's official portrait in the Federal Party Room would remain,
but with a caption providing context. Mister Albinizi told the
ABC Mark Latham has views which I find repulsive across
(02:39):
a range of areas. He's someone who I regret ever
being elected Leader of the Labour Party. He went on
to say that history has proven that judgment to be correct.
Mark Latham since has gone further and further and further
away from any values that represent mainstream Australia. The Federal
government has sent support to South Australia, which is battling
a massive toxic algill bloom that has devastated the marine environment.
(03:02):
The bloom was identified off South Australia's Flurio Peninsula in
March and grew to more than forty four hundred square kilometers,
recently breaking up and spreading north into the Spencer Gulf,
South into the Korong Wetlands and along Adelaide's beaches into
the Port River, killing tens of thousands of marine animals.
Environment Minister Murray Watt said the bloom add its impacts
(03:23):
were incredibly disturbing, as he announced a fourteen million dollar
federal funding package for the Essay government, but says the
crisis cannot officially be declared a natural disaster under the
existing definition, despite calls from scientists, the Greens and Essay's
Labor Premiere. A natural disaster declaration would trigger special federal
assistance measures to support individuals, businesses, and communities in their recovery.
(03:46):
Malcolm Jamal Warner, the actor who played theo Huxtable on
The Cosby Show, has died at the age of fifty
four in an accidental drowning in Costa Rica. Costa Rican
authority set on Monday that Warner drowned on Sunday afternoon
after a current pulled him deeper into the ocean. He
was rescued by people on the beach, but first responders
from the Red Cross found him without vital signs and
(04:07):
he was taken to the morgue owners. Theo Huxtable was
the only son amongst four daughters in the household. Of
Cliff and Claire Huxtable on the NBC sitcom and will
be one of the prime representations of teenage boyhood on
the worldwide popular show for much of its run from
nineteen eighty four to nineteen ninety two. He played the
role for eight seasons in all one hundred and ninety
(04:28):
seven episodes, winning an Emmy nomination for Supporting Actor and
a Comedy in nineteen eighty six. That's your latest news headlines,
and if you're after more celebrity news, head to link
in our show notes for the spills daily entertainment headlines.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Thanks Claire.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Next, what can we expect in this first week of parliament?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
The forty eighth.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Parliament of Australia kicked into gear yesterday following Labour's victory
at the last federal election.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Now, before we dive into what's on the agenda this.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Week, let's start with a quick trip back, because let's
be real. What has happened since the May Irei federal
election previously in Australian politics. Right, So, the TLDR is
Anthony Albanesi and the Labor Party won in a landslide victory,
securing a record ninety four seats in the House of
(05:19):
Representatives and taking twenty nine seats in the Senate, giving
them the largest majority in decades.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Meantime, the Liberals not only.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Lost the election but their leader too. Peter Dutton was
unseated in his electorate of Dixon by Labor MP Ali France.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Back in twenty eighteen, I was told that Dixon was
not winnable and it wouldn't be winnable until Peter Dutton retired.
I was told that I didn't stand a chance.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
And the Greens were left without a leader after another
Labor candidate and Sarah Whitty took Adam Banks seat of Melbourne.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I want to thank Melbourne voters for regularly giving me.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
The highest vote, including in this election, and to thank
you for the last fifteen years and the chance to
do some amazing things together. Post election, the Liberals and
Nationals had their own drama, briefly splitting up, only to
get back together again. There were leadership ballots all round,
Nationals leadership challenge, the Green shuffling their ranks, and the
(06:19):
Liberals making a history by electing Susan Lee as their
first ever female party leader. So that's set up, But
what's actually happening now that school's back in session. First
off the official swearing in today where twenty four brand
new Labor MPs take the oath and give their maiden speeches.
Then it's straight down to business on Wednesday. Label will
(06:40):
waste no time on its flagship promises Headline Act are
one off twenty percent reduction in hexteat that means about
three million Aussies could see an average of five and
a half thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Wiped from their student loans.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Another top item for labor is childcare reform. The big
push is to make care more affordable by subsidizing it
for families earning up to five hundred and thirty three thousand,
two hundred and eighty dollars.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
But there's also.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Urgency to tighten security controls. After reports emerged of an
alleged child abuser who managed to work in twenty three
Victorian childcare centers, new rules set to be introduced, with
CEE fines for centers that don't meet requirements and could
see repeat offenders unable to open new ones at all.
But what's the opposition up to, you ask, Well, all
eyes are on Susan Lee making her debut as Liberal
(07:30):
leader after a bruising election defeat. The coalition's primary vote
is at a record low, sinking to just twenty nine percent.
But the bigger questions lingering since their May defeat is
how do the Liberals rebuild under Lee's leadership. The Libs
are already sharpening their attack lines, focusing on the economy
and transparency, which leads us nicely to those bleak Treasury
(07:53):
documents from last week that essentially said Labor will have
to raise taxes to balance the books and make good
on its housing promises. So it's exciting times ahead on
the hill in the nation's capital, and like me, political
commentator and journalist Jenna Clark will be watching on excited Jenna.
This is like our super Bowl. Let's start with today,
(08:13):
the swearing in of new MP's is happening. There'll be
maiden speeches going on, and all eyes will be on
Ali France and Sarah Whitty. How do you think they're
feeling right now?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I think that they'll have just a bundle of nerves
and excitement. And I think what I found really exciting
with the previous forty seventh Parliament was there walking around
the halls of Canberra that week. There was this vigor.
There was a verve in the air energy and I
think it's going to going to be heightened this time
because of course that red way that we saw across
(08:44):
the country. We're going to see the most crammed government
benches since the mid nineteen nineties, with ninety four Labor
MPs sitting in the House of Representatives.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Yeah, it's going to be like bwao a chair almost totally.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
And I think we're going to see a really interesting
dynamic obviously not only the Prime Minister and the Opposition
leader Susan Lay, but obviously with the Speaker. If Milton
Dick is re elected as Speaker, he'll have a very
tough job in his hand try to control those one
hundred and fifty people in there.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
So we know that going into the forty eighth Parliament
that Labor has this huge majority, as you've just mentioned,
there are we going to see them wheel that power?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Do you think the.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Interesting part will be in the House of Reps. In
the lower house is what everyone really watches very closely
because obviously that's where you have the main players, the
majority of ministers, the Prime Minister of course, but it's
the Senate which you probably have to watch closely. That's
where legislation will be scrutinized line by line, and that
will be interesting because the Greens have quite a stronghold
(09:47):
there as well as the independents. But they're saying that
people like Jackie Lambie, David Pocock, Lydia Thorpe, those independents
maybe a little bit thwarted in terms of power this
time around, because it will really come down to the
Greens and the Government potentially working quite closely together or
the coalition coming to the party for specific things of legislation.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Today is almost first day back at scho fool Vibes.
Everyone's getting reacquainted, catching on what they did over their holidays.
But Wednesday is where we really do get down to business.
Labour's election promise of reducing hex step by twenty percent
will be up one of the first cabs off the rank.
Are we pretty safe in imagining that this will actually pass?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah? Look, I think they've probably been working very hard
behind the scenes when it comes to negotiating with specific
senators and specific MPs that are going to get this
over the line, because of course it was a election promise,
so they probably feel that they have a mandate, but
it will be interesting to see what else will be
on the priority list. We've seen obviously over the weekend
a lot of MPs talking about what the priority for
(10:48):
the government is. Education. Minister Jason Claire has probably got
a lot of heat on him at this point in
time in regard to what's going on in the childcare
sector and the horrors that we've seen unfolding not only
just the past couple of weeks, but what Adel Ferguson
has been reporting for years now as well as I
think the Coalition will really need all the Prime Minister
on when he's going to get a meeting, whether we
(11:09):
are sit on a phone hook up a text message
with US President Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Yeah, So childcare, like you mentioned, is another huge focus
for what will be happening on the floor this week.
Pre election, Labor had promised to make childcare more affordable
for families, but it does seem like that sense of
urgency has really kicked up given what's been unfolding in
Victoria recently. What about the opposition, what's their focus going
to be, because it almost like it was landed in
(11:34):
their lap those leaked Treasury documents last week.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Will they use that. Yeah, look, I.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Think that that will be an absolute gold mine if
it wasn't so busy and loud in certain areas that
probably require a lot of attention. I think that childcare
issue not only affordability and accessibility, especially in rural and
regional Australia, but safety is a major concern and you
will see I think bipartisan support, which I think we
have seen Susan Lee commit to that. I think those
(12:02):
Treasury documents are definitely something that they will use within
their question time tactics, So it will be interesting to
see what is thrown treasure Jim Charms's way. Apparently he's
quite relaxed about his department leaking things unreductant to the media.
But in terms of what the coalition will probably be
wanting to achieve, probably just a bit of relevance. We've
seen Susan Lee being rolled out across a big media
(12:25):
circus with the Australian Woman's weekly cover and spread the
sixty minutes treatment just before Parliament resumed, and as we've
seen in newspoll published in The Australian on Monday, their
approval rating is the lowest since the beginning of newspoll began.
But that's not to say that labor out of the woods,
because I think everyone is looking to see how these
(12:45):
major parties are going to try and revive their primary vote,
which is dwindling into the low forties.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
We talked about all eyes being on Sarah Whitty and
Ali France, but really all eyes to also on Susan Lee.
It's historic, she's the first female to lead the Liberal
Party coming into parliament with, like you said, pretty low
approval ratings, pretty thin in the ranks as well.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
How does she rally the troops from here? Jeneral forget.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I think opposition leaders that are untested within the electric
before Parliament has resumed, these numbers are not shocking. Peter
Dutton had similar figures when he took the mantol So
after the twenty twenty two election. I think she talks
a big game publicly, how that looks behind the scenes
in a party room and a joint party room meeting.
Considering they've had a breakup with a NATS and then
(13:29):
they reunited, it's going to be very interesting to see
if that bad blood continues, and I think we'll know
pretty quickly to see if the leaks come thick and
fast from that side of politics.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
There's already so much happening in Parliament this week, but
I do just want to quickly focus on Independent Monique Ryan.
She's said to introduce a bill to lower the voting
age two sixteen. Now, this is off the back of
the UK doing something similar. There's a couple of other
countries that do stuff like this in their local elections.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
How likely do you think this is to get up.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Well done to Manique Ryan for getting on the national
agenda because it was obviously very hot topic last week.
I don't think it's going to have a lot of legs,
considering there such a legislative backlog of things that are
legitimately very important for the country right now around economics, childcare, safety,
things like that, national security. I'm really looking forward to
the debate, so I hope that it is brought on
(14:20):
and it will be very interesting to see some of
the commentary in the media, which I'm sure a lot
of new assistant ministers, new labor backventures, new complition MPs
and independents want to talk about when they hit the
circuit with all of the media outlets in the coming weeks.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Thanks for taking some time to feed your mind with
us today. The Quikie is produced by me Taylor Strado
and Claire Murphy, with audio production by Lou Hill
You're listening to a Muma Mea podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Mumma Mea acknowledges the traditional owners of land and waters
that this podcast is recorded on.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Hey, I'm Taylorstrano.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
This is Muma MIA's twice daily news podcast, The Quickie.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
It's the formal start to a.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Brand new political error in Canberra, with fresh faces, big promises,
and a heap of headlines already.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
In just a few days.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Today we're taking you inside the opening week of Australia's
forty eighth parliament. Who's new, what's on the agenda, and
why things could look very different this time round. Before
we get there, here's Claire Murphy with the latest from
the Quickie newsroom for Tuesday, July twenty two.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Thanks Taylor. Australia, along with twenty four other countries, have
demanded Israel immediately end its war in the Gaza Strip,
criticizing the inhumane killing of Palestinians, including hundreds near food
distribution sites. In a joint statement from the Foreign Ministers
of Australia, France, it to Lee, Japan, the UK, Canada, Denmark,
New Zealand and others said more than eight hundred Palestinians
(01:15):
have been killed while seeking aid, condemning what it calls
the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians.
The statement points out that the majority of those killed
were in the vicinity of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, which
the United States and Israel back to take over a
distribution in the Gaza strip from a network led by
the United Nations, saying the Israeli government's aid delivery model
(01:37):
is dangerous, fuels instability and deprives Garzans of human dignity,
and that the suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached
new depths. Israel's Foreign Ministry said the statement was disconnected
from reality and would send the wrong message to Hamas,
saying the statement fails to focus the pressure on Hamas
and fails to recognize Hamas's role and responsibility for the situation.
(01:59):
Prime Minister Anthony Albnezi has slammed Mark Latham for what
he calls his repulsive views, but a picture of the
former Labour leader will remain hanging in the Federal Caucus
room despite domestic VNE violence accusations. Mister Latham is accused
by his former partner Natalie Mathews, offers sustained pattern of
abuse and degradation. The New South Wales State MP strongly
(02:19):
denying the untested claims made in a civil court apprehended
violence order application by Miss Matthews, saying he has broken
no laws. The Labour Caucus on Monday agreed that mister
Latham's official portrait in the Federal Party Room would remain,
but with a caption providing context. Mister Albinizi told the
ABC Mark Latham has views which I find repulsive across
(02:39):
a range of areas. He's someone who I regret ever
being elected Leader of the Labour Party. He went on
to say that history has proven that judgment to be correct.
Mark Latham since has gone further and further and further
away from any values that represent mainstream Australia. The Federal
government has sent support to South Australia, which is battling
a massive toxic algill bloom that has devastated the marine environment.
(03:02):
The bloom was identified off South Australia's Flurio Peninsula in
March and grew to more than forty four hundred square kilometers,
recently breaking up and spreading north into the Spencer Gulf,
South into the Korong Wetlands and along Adelaide's beaches into
the Port River, killing tens of thousands of marine animals.
Environment Minister Murray Watt said the bloom add its impacts
(03:23):
were incredibly disturbing, as he announced a fourteen million dollar
federal funding package for the Essay government, but says the
crisis cannot officially be declared a natural disaster under the
existing definition, despite calls from scientists, the Greens and Essay's
Labor Premiere. A natural disaster declaration would trigger special federal
assistance measures to support individuals, businesses, and communities in their recovery.
(03:46):
Malcolm Jamal Warner, the actor who played theo Huxtable on
The Cosby Show, has died at the age of fifty
four in an accidental drowning in Costa Rica. Costa Rican
authority set on Monday that Warner drowned on Sunday afternoon
after a current pulled him deeper into the ocean. He
was rescued by people on the beach, but first responders
from the Red Cross found him without vital signs and
(04:07):
he was taken to the morgue owners. Theo Huxtable was
the only son amongst four daughters in the household. Of
Cliff and Claire Huxtable on the NBC sitcom and will
be one of the prime representations of teenage boyhood on
the worldwide popular show for much of its run from
nineteen eighty four to nineteen ninety two. He played the
role for eight seasons in all one hundred and ninety
(04:28):
seven episodes, winning an Emmy nomination for Supporting Actor and
a Comedy in nineteen eighty six. That's your latest news headlines,
and if you're after more celebrity news, head to link
in our show notes for the spills daily entertainment headlines.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Thanks Claire.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Next, what can we expect in this first week of parliament?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
The forty eighth.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Parliament of Australia kicked into gear yesterday following Labour's victory
at the last federal election.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Now, before we dive into what's on the agenda this.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Week, let's start with a quick trip back, because let's
be real. What has happened since the May Irei federal
election previously in Australian politics. Right, So, the TLDR is
Anthony Albanesi and the Labor Party won in a landslide victory,
securing a record ninety four seats in the House of
(05:19):
Representatives and taking twenty nine seats in the Senate, giving
them the largest majority in decades.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Meantime, the Liberals not only.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Lost the election but their leader too. Peter Dutton was
unseated in his electorate of Dixon by Labor MP Ali France.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Back in twenty eighteen, I was told that Dixon was
not winnable and it wouldn't be winnable until Peter Dutton retired.
I was told that I didn't stand a chance.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
And the Greens were left without a leader after another
Labor candidate and Sarah Whitty took Adam Banks seat of Melbourne.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I want to thank Melbourne voters for regularly giving me.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
The highest vote, including in this election, and to thank
you for the last fifteen years and the chance to
do some amazing things together. Post election, the Liberals and
Nationals had their own drama, briefly splitting up, only to
get back together again. There were leadership ballots all round,
Nationals leadership challenge, the Green shuffling their ranks, and the
(06:19):
Liberals making a history by electing Susan Lee as their
first ever female party leader. So that's set up, But
what's actually happening now that school's back in session. First
off the official swearing in today where twenty four brand
new Labor MPs take the oath and give their maiden speeches.
Then it's straight down to business on Wednesday. Label will
(06:40):
waste no time on its flagship promises Headline Act are
one off twenty percent reduction in hexteat that means about
three million Aussies could see an average of five and
a half thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Wiped from their student loans.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Another top item for labor is childcare reform. The big
push is to make care more affordable by subsidizing it
for families earning up to five hundred and thirty three thousand,
two hundred and eighty dollars.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
But there's also.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Urgency to tighten security controls. After reports emerged of an
alleged child abuser who managed to work in twenty three
Victorian childcare centers, new rules set to be introduced, with
CEE fines for centers that don't meet requirements and could
see repeat offenders unable to open new ones at all.
But what's the opposition up to, you ask, Well, all
eyes are on Susan Lee making her debut as Liberal
(07:30):
leader after a bruising election defeat. The coalition's primary vote
is at a record low, sinking to just twenty nine percent.
But the bigger questions lingering since their May defeat is
how do the Liberals rebuild under Lee's leadership. The Libs
are already sharpening their attack lines, focusing on the economy
and transparency, which leads us nicely to those bleak Treasury
(07:53):
documents from last week that essentially said Labor will have
to raise taxes to balance the books and make good
on its housing promises. So it's exciting times ahead on
the hill in the nation's capital, and like me, political
commentator and journalist Jenna Clark will be watching on excited Jenna.
This is like our super Bowl. Let's start with today,
(08:13):
the swearing in of new MP's is happening. There'll be
maiden speeches going on, and all eyes will be on
Ali France and Sarah Whitty. How do you think they're
feeling right now?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I think that they'll have just a bundle of nerves
and excitement. And I think what I found really exciting
with the previous forty seventh Parliament was there walking around
the halls of Canberra that week. There was this vigor.
There was a verve in the air energy and I
think it's going to going to be heightened this time
because of course that red way that we saw across
(08:44):
the country. We're going to see the most crammed government
benches since the mid nineteen nineties, with ninety four Labor
MPs sitting in the House of Representatives.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Yeah, it's going to be like bwao a chair almost totally.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
And I think we're going to see a really interesting
dynamic obviously not only the Prime Minister and the Opposition
leader Susan Lay, but obviously with the Speaker. If Milton
Dick is re elected as Speaker, he'll have a very
tough job in his hand try to control those one
hundred and fifty people in there.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
So we know that going into the forty eighth Parliament
that Labor has this huge majority, as you've just mentioned,
there are we going to see them wheel that power?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Do you think the.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Interesting part will be in the House of Reps. In
the lower house is what everyone really watches very closely
because obviously that's where you have the main players, the
majority of ministers, the Prime Minister of course, but it's
the Senate which you probably have to watch closely. That's
where legislation will be scrutinized line by line, and that
will be interesting because the Greens have quite a stronghold
(09:47):
there as well as the independents. But they're saying that
people like Jackie Lambie, David Pocock, Lydia Thorpe, those independents
maybe a little bit thwarted in terms of power this
time around, because it will really come down to the
Greens and the Government potentially working quite closely together or
the coalition coming to the party for specific things of legislation.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Today is almost first day back at scho fool Vibes.
Everyone's getting reacquainted, catching on what they did over their holidays.
But Wednesday is where we really do get down to business.
Labour's election promise of reducing hex step by twenty percent
will be up one of the first cabs off the rank.
Are we pretty safe in imagining that this will actually pass?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah? Look, I think they've probably been working very hard
behind the scenes when it comes to negotiating with specific
senators and specific MPs that are going to get this
over the line, because of course it was a election promise,
so they probably feel that they have a mandate, but
it will be interesting to see what else will be
on the priority list. We've seen obviously over the weekend
a lot of MPs talking about what the priority for
(10:48):
the government is. Education. Minister Jason Claire has probably got
a lot of heat on him at this point in
time in regard to what's going on in the childcare
sector and the horrors that we've seen unfolding not only
just the past couple of weeks, but what Adel Ferguson
has been reporting for years now as well as I
think the Coalition will really need all the Prime Minister
on when he's going to get a meeting, whether we
(11:09):
are sit on a phone hook up a text message
with US President Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Yeah, So childcare, like you mentioned, is another huge focus
for what will be happening on the floor this week.
Pre election, Labor had promised to make childcare more affordable
for families, but it does seem like that sense of
urgency has really kicked up given what's been unfolding in
Victoria recently. What about the opposition, what's their focus going
to be, because it almost like it was landed in
(11:34):
their lap those leaked Treasury documents last week.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Will they use that. Yeah, look, I.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Think that that will be an absolute gold mine if
it wasn't so busy and loud in certain areas that
probably require a lot of attention. I think that childcare
issue not only affordability and accessibility, especially in rural and
regional Australia, but safety is a major concern and you
will see I think bipartisan support, which I think we
have seen Susan Lee commit to that. I think those
(12:02):
Treasury documents are definitely something that they will use within
their question time tactics, So it will be interesting to
see what is thrown treasure Jim Charms's way. Apparently he's
quite relaxed about his department leaking things unreductant to the media.
But in terms of what the coalition will probably be
wanting to achieve, probably just a bit of relevance. We've
seen Susan Lee being rolled out across a big media
(12:25):
circus with the Australian Woman's weekly cover and spread the
sixty minutes treatment just before Parliament resumed, and as we've
seen in newspoll published in The Australian on Monday, their
approval rating is the lowest since the beginning of newspoll began.
But that's not to say that labor out of the woods,
because I think everyone is looking to see how these
(12:45):
major parties are going to try and revive their primary vote,
which is dwindling into the low forties.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
We talked about all eyes being on Sarah Whitty and
Ali France, but really all eyes to also on Susan Lee.
It's historic, she's the first female to lead the Liberal
Party coming into parliament with, like you said, pretty low
approval ratings, pretty thin in the ranks as well.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
How does she rally the troops from here? Jeneral forget.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I think opposition leaders that are untested within the electric
before Parliament has resumed, these numbers are not shocking. Peter
Dutton had similar figures when he took the mantol So
after the twenty twenty two election. I think she talks
a big game publicly, how that looks behind the scenes
in a party room and a joint party room meeting.
Considering they've had a breakup with a NATS and then
(13:29):
they reunited, it's going to be very interesting to see
if that bad blood continues, and I think we'll know
pretty quickly to see if the leaks come thick and
fast from that side of politics.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
There's already so much happening in Parliament this week, but
I do just want to quickly focus on Independent Monique Ryan.
She's said to introduce a bill to lower the voting
age two sixteen. Now, this is off the back of
the UK doing something similar. There's a couple of other
countries that do stuff like this in their local elections.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
How likely do you think this is to get up.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Well done to Manique Ryan for getting on the national
agenda because it was obviously very hot topic last week.
I don't think it's going to have a lot of legs,
considering there such a legislative backlog of things that are
legitimately very important for the country right now around economics, childcare, safety,
things like that, national security. I'm really looking forward to
the debate, so I hope that it is brought on
(14:20):
and it will be very interesting to see some of
the commentary in the media, which I'm sure a lot
of new assistant ministers, new labor backventures, new complition MPs
and independents want to talk about when they hit the
circuit with all of the media outlets in the coming weeks.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Thanks for taking some time to feed your mind with
us today. The Quikie is produced by me Taylor Strado
and Claire Murphy, with audio production by Lou Hill
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