MP criticises question time debate

MP criticises question time debate – as it happened

Independent member for North Sydney Kylea Tink has criticised the standard of question time debate during a speech to the chamber on Thursday. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

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What we learned today, Thursday 7 September

And that’s where we’ll wrap up today. Thanks so much for your company.

Here’s a little of what we learned:

Labor’s second tranche of workplace reforms has been delayed until early next year after the crossbench voted with the Coalition to send the bill to an inquiry which is due to report in February.
The transport minister, Catherine King, said the treatment of Australian women subjected to bodily inspections at Doha airport in 2020 was “a factor” in rejecting the Qatari request for extra flights to Australia.
The independent MP for North Sydney, Kylea Tink, has decried the “excessive and unconstructive noise and aggression” in question time yesterday, saying she “did not feel safe” when chaos erupted around a dissenting motion moved by the opposition.
An inquiry into historical child sexual abuse at a Melbourne primary school in the 1960s and 1970s will investigate allegations at 18 other state schools where the same teachers also worked.
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has met the Chinese premier, Li Qiang, on the sidelines of the Asean summit in Jakarta. Albanese said the talks were “positive” and covered a range of issues, including China’s economic outlook, Taiwan and the fate of Australians detained in China.
The federal government has strongly signalled it will crack down on larger airlines strategically scheduling more flights than they can run out of Sydney airport before cancelling them to shut out competitors from accessing the slots.

Updated at 9.32am BST

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Police arrest boy, 14, over alleged near fatal abduction of Melbourne school student

News via AAP and my colleague Nino Bucci:

A 14-year-old boy who police allege is a known gang member has been arrested over the near fatal abduction of a Melbourne student as he walked home from school.

The boy was arrested after a 14-year-old student from Glen Eira college was forced into a car and left seriously injured in Glen Huntly on Monday afternoon.

Insp Scott Dwyer said police allege he was believed to be the main offender, and flagged more arrests in the coming hours.

Dwyer said that concerns schools were being targeted were “unfounded”. This comes as other schools in Melbourne’s south-east warned students to exercise caution when travelling to and from campus.