The senate divided to vote on Labor’s motion to change the sitting hours so it can bring on the Future Made in Australia production tax credits (after a deal with the Greens) debate and vote. Independent senators Fatima Payman, Tammy Tyrrell and Lidia Thorpe were voting there with the Greens, so you can probably guess how the vote is going.

So that is a win for both Labor and the Greens is incoming.

We will cover off the ripples from that tomorrow when we return, but for now, we are going to put the blog to sleep – we have a very big week ahead of us, so please make sure you take some time to switch off between now and when we are back early on Tuesday morning.

It’s party room meeting time, so a slightly slower start to the parliament sitting – but we will be back with you sometime after 7am. Until then, take care of you. Amy x

So the big issue here is that the Coalition have been blindsided by Labor sewing up a deal with the Greens on the Future Made in Australia production tax credits, and is lashing out. The Coalition had plans to send the bill to committee and tie it up until after the election, but the Greens, independents and Labor have obviously come together on an agreement to pass the bill.

That most likely means that fossil fuel mining companies have been shut out of the fund.

Michaelia Cash is very upset that the Greens and the Labor government having done a “dirty deal” on a bill “that will have a direct impact on the mining industry”.

The impact being – if you are in fossil fuel mining you probably won’t be getting any production tax credits from the future made in Australia funds, but Cash says this is about the Greens getting “cabinet positions” in a minority Labor government, which is frankly hilarious.

This is a flashback to when there were reports that former Greens leader Richard di Natale was to get a cabinet position in the 2019 Shorten minority government.

I know that the ACT Greens and Labor parties are in a coalition, but COME ON.

“Do you actual care how much the average Australian pays in their prices?!” something has broken in Cash’s brain as she argues against the hour motion here, and frankly, it is the boost we all need.

Katy Gallagher stands up to say as “extraordinary as that presentation was, bordering on the delusional” she thinks it would be “beneficial for the chamber to move on”.

The senate is still debating whether or not to move ahead with the hours motion (which changes the hours the senate sits – a punishment that does not often fit the crime.)

Labor wants to debate both future made in Australia (the production tax credits) and the defence service homes amendment (more homes for defence workers) but the Coalition only wants to support one (GUESS) and is trying to split the motion.

This is all a very big time wasting exercise it seems, because Labor looks to have the numbers to move forward with their plan (the Greens are on board and so too, it looks like, are enough independents) but that doesn’t meant the Coalition won’t make their point by trying to delay it all.

Penny Wong is in the senate moving a motion to have the senate hours changed – to sit longer.

Why? To bring on the Future Made in Australia legislation. The Greens are voting for the change in hours motion, which can only mean that a deal has been done, because a) the government wouldn’t want to bring on legislation like this if it didn’t have the numbers and b) the Greens wouldn’t be voting to have the legislation brought on if it wasn’t going to vote for it.

The Greens wanted fossil fuel mining subsidies completely out of the future made in Australia funding and tax credits….so looks like that has been sewn up.

Unless you are directly involved, it can be easy to let it slip your mind that there are still thousands of people looking for pathway to citizenship.

Graham Perrett continues:

The Coalition held a Royal Commission into the home insulation program following the deaths of four young workers: so I’m placing you all on notice right now – if you let politicians determine private health matters, kids will die.

The young trans community needs kindness, courage and champions working for them right here under the big flag, because this building belongs to all Australians.

Good people don’t ever let bullies win elections via targeting the vulnerable.“

Graham Perrett is finishing his speech with a defence of transpeople and warns against politicians interfering in private health matters:

I especially want to mention the parliamentary friends of LGBTIQ, a plus group that I helped form with Warren Entsch a long time ago, and Senator Sarah Hanson-Young. I know it’s in good hands, but with my good friend and comrade, Louise Pratt and Warren leaving soon I concerned that the 48th Parliament might not be ready for the US style attacks directed at the trans community.

In Queensland, in fact, some might say those attacks already here.

Bullies and fascists always seek small groups to target. They are not alone in seeking out the trans community in this way, trying to turn real people into the other.

Remember that Jesus Christ is no weather vane. He loves all people, always, not some people, sometimes.

He loves they and them and even you. And perhaps, if some politicians have become obsessed with how kids go to the loo, maybe it’s time to leave the cult and go see a therapist.

Dehumanising humans due to differences, is a pathway to hell.

Moreton MP Graham Perrett is delivering his valedictory speech, where he reminds people that the greatest nation on earth, Queensland, is bigger than 183 countries.

“We’re also weirder than 183 other countries,” he says.

He’s allowed to say it. He’s a Queenslander. (It’s like when George Harrison (the best Beatle) would yell at people who rubbished Paul McCartney in front of him after the Beatles broke up – George could rubbish Paul, but no one else could.)

Perrett:

The first black feet ever to set foot on this continent did so in Queensland about 5000 generations ago, the first white foot to a Dutch sailor, Wilhelm Jensen in 1606 up near Weiper in far north Queensland. And Queensland is where Lieutenant– Lieutenant James Cook first raised his flag to claim present day Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania for the British Crown, we were nearly 60 years ahead of Fremantle and Hindmarsh claiming Western Australia and South Australia respectively.

My point is that Queensland is different.

We know how to lead the way, like we did with Eddie Mabo, a native title. Adversity helps us bend towards a greater truth. And despite the recent referendum result, I know that our Constitution, this little document, will eventually include our First Nations, people, our country needs the truth writ large, rather than lies writ small.

Just remember, a British act of parliament was passed by white men – British white men with beards in Westminster one day, soon, our constitution will be amended by the modern men and women of Australia.

Question time ends and Peter Dutton feels the need to correct some of what Labor has been saying about his time as health minister.

The chamber moves on.