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Medivac bill means 'boats will sink, people will die': Joyce | Sky News AustraliaThe medivac bill will only weaken Australia’s borders and lead to boats sinking and people dying, warns Barnaby Joyce. \n\nThe Senate passed the medivac bill 36-34 on Wednesday, ensuring the controversial legislation will become law. \n\nMr Joyce says the current system is ‘working’ because there are no children on Nauru and no one has drowned, ‘so why are we messing with it?’ \n\n\n\n\n Barnaby crawl back under your rock from whence you came. You Weaken Australia's credibility which leads to people wanting to do away with ourselves from Humiliation Nobody is believing your lies... This muppet has screwed every government issue he’s been minister for! From staff members to the Murray Darling!
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Coalition at odds on 'big stick' energy policy | Sky News AustraliaThe Coalition is facing further internal turmoil, with the Deputy Nationals leader at odds with a senior cabinet minister over when the government's divestiture policy will be put to parliament.\n\nBridget McKenzie says the bill will be introduced in the April budget sitting, while Finance Minister Mathias Cormann has told Sky News the government intends to take it to the election.\n\nThe 'big stick' legislation seeks to force energy companies to lower power prices and gives the government the jurisdiction to force the divestment of energy companies if they are found to have misused their market power.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison shelved the legislation on Thursday after the Greens attached an amendment that would have banned the use of federal funds to underwrite a new coal-fired power station.\n\n\nImage: News Corp Australia
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Big stick energy debate moot without Labor support | Sky News AustraliaGreater government power over energy companies is tipped to be a key issue in parliament after the Coalition shelved the debate last week.\n\nFederal Energy Minister Angus Taylor says the Coalition will put its big stick energy legislation to parliament if Labor is prepared to support it, despite conceding the Opposition has voted against it a dozen times. \n\nThe Coalition's 'big stick' divestiture policy is designed to crack down on energy providers convicted of misusing their market power, and, in extreme cases, force the removal of assets in order to drive prices down.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n keithjpitt Oh it’s just supply and demand, capitalism and markets, it will sort itself out just you watch and see... keithjpitt The public have waited for ten years or more for a proper policy around energy, what's another ten years? The public will continue to pay while the pollies continue to shift the goal post. keithjpitt The home for coal is in the ground
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Small changes mean big implications for border protection | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Chris Kenny says while the medevac bill is ‘not a massive change’ to Australia’s border protection, ‘small changes in this area can have big implications’.\n\nLabor is trying to ‘down play’ the issue, Mr Kenny says, and in doing so have pointed to a key part of the legislation that ensures these laws only apply to those on Nauru now, not to any future asylum seekers. \n\nMr Kenny says former Labor leader Kevin Rudd promised asylum seekers arriving on boats would never get to Australia, but in passing the legislation changes, they have ‘gone back on that promise’.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n chriskkenny Yeah? Well Shorten unzipped his fly and we’ve all seen it. Too late dickhead chriskkenny They can “ wiggle “ as much as they like but they are just dumb ! They let themselves be taken captive by the greens and the cross bench to win a vote but they are now going to loose the vote that really matters and the coalition is back on the front foot ! Bill is a real dill ! chriskkenny Peter Dutton and Scott Morrison are allowing criminals to stay in the country after they were caught letting a drug trafficker stay in the country after he was in prison for 10 years! Peter Dutton was always corrupt af & full of it.
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Labor's opposition to the 'big stick bill' will drive up energy prices : Nationals MP | Sky News AustraliaFULL INTERVIEW: Nationals frontbencher Keith Pitt says the Coalition is determined to table its divestiture bill before the next election.\n\nThe government withdrew the legislation this week after the Greens moved to attach an amendment that would ban the use of federal funds to underwrite a new coal-fired power station.\n\nThe Coalition's 'big stick' divestiture policy is designed to crack down on energy providers convicted of misusing their market power and, in extreme cases, force the removal of assets in order to drive prices down.\n\nLabor has called the policy 'Venezuela-esque,' and say it will vote against the legislation.\n\nMr Pitt told Sky News the bill is 'important to National Party voters' and that it will be introduced to parliament before the next election.\n\nHe says Labor's stance risks driving up power prices.\n\n\n\n\n KKeneally It’s as if she was never the puppet of one of the biggest crooks in political history but yet she was. KKeneally Theey had a great plan under Malcom, which you guys are trying to copy. KKeneally As a greenie I object to them cutting a stick from a tree for political purposes
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