Australia politics live: ‘We’ve got sufficient gas’, Plibersek says as energy debate due to dominate parliament winter session
Debate over the Coalition’s announcement of its plan for nuclear power plant sites will heat up. Follow today’s news headlines liveDavid Pocock also spoke to the ABC about his private members bill that would see housing treated as a human right. He said it was needed because:There’s no overarching national plan and this would legislate that these are the objectives, we want to see housing affordable, we want to reduce homelessness and then it would be up to the Government to actually work out - how are we going to do that?What are the policies that we think will address this?One of my heroes Desmond Tutu used to say ‘don’t raise your voice, improve your argument’.It’s pretty tragic the major parties tear the opposition down rather than improving their argument and making their plans stand on their own two feet. Continue reading...
Debate over the Coalition’s announcement of its plan for nuclear power plant sites will heat up. Follow today’s news headlines live
David Pocock also spoke to the ABC about his private members bill that would see housing treated as a human right. He said it was needed because:
There’s no overarching national plan and this would legislate that these are the objectives, we want to see housing affordable, we want to reduce homelessness and then it would be up to the Government to actually work out - how are we going to do that?
What are the policies that we think will address this?
One of my heroes Desmond Tutu used to say ‘don’t raise your voice, improve your argument’.
It’s pretty tragic the major parties tear the opposition down rather than improving their argument and making their plans stand on their own two feet. Continue reading...
