Hello and welcome to your second day of parliament sittings.

Yesterday was a bit of a buzzkill, with not a lot happening in the corridors of power. That is by design. Labor is sticking to its incremental softly softly approach, and very happy to keep the focus on the Coalition’s inability to find a policy it agrees on as a party room.

Like net zero. Barnaby Joyce has been running around telling anyone who will listen that the Coalition’s ‘rank and file’ are against net zero targets, which OK, sure, but the rank and file are not going to win you an election. Pauline Hanson is now ramping up her opposition to renewable energy, so it’s a nice little circle jerk of electoral irrelevancy happening at the moment.

Meanwhile the NDIS growth spending cuts are still under the spotlight, with independent MP Allegra Spender entering the chat.

Sky News reports Spender wants growth levels cut to GDP:

“Any part of government that grows as fast as (the NDIS) has, and is so much larger, to be honest, than it was expected to be, is going to get social license pushback,” she said.

“I think actually working out how to pull back NDIS spending, ideally, much more in line with how GDP is growing rather than the 22 per cent and the 8 per cent that we have had—that is where it needs to go.”

Which sounds fine on paper, but for anyone who is on the NDIS or has a child on the NDIS, sounds terrifying. And isn’t it strange that these spending rules never apply to defence? We need to always worry about spending, except when it comes to defence apparently, despite the constant cost blow outs of projects and he lack of deliverables. But helping people – well then, must think of that social license!

We’ll cover all the day’s events, as well as dip into last night after Labor senator Charlotte Walker delivered her first speech to the parliament. Walker is Australia’s youngest senator and spoke of some of the mental health and bullying battles she had already faced. Anthony Albanese visited the senate to watch the speech from the sidelines.

It’s a four coffee morning, so strap in. You have Amy Remeikis with you for most of the day, plus Australia’s experts on the economy, environment, and good things, as well as Mike Bowers who is already walking the hallways for The New Daily.

Ready? Let’s get into it.