Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog has arrived in Sydney for a four-day trip to Australia to speak to survivors of the Bondi terror attack and their families.
Herzog touched down this morning with his wife, Michal Herzog according to the Israeli embassy. Israel’s ambassador, Amir Maimon met Herzog at the airport.
Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister, Patrick Gorman, was also there to receive Herzog at Sydney airport, from the government.
A court hearing this morning will determine whether planned marches against the visit can go ahead at Sydney Town Hall, contravening the NSW government’s public assembly declaration.
Ley says she can keep her job following polling
Staying in the hotseat, opposition leader Sussan Ley speaks to ABC News Breakfast where again she faces questions on whether she will be able to hold onto her leadership.
Ley tries to avert the question several times, and says she spoke to leadership contender Angus Taylor over the weekend and will speak to him again this morning.
Asked again point blank if she can keep the job when the Coalition’s situation has been described as ‘disastrous’ she says:
Yes, I can, in answer to your question. Polls are a point in time. And they do reflect the fact that people are frustrated. People are angry. They want us to be a strong opposition. And to be there for them. And I understand that.
Ley says her relationship with Nationals leader, David Littleproud, is not toxic, and says the negotiations have “strengthened our processes”.
Calm down and have a cup of tea, says McGrath
Like his colleagues, James McGrath tells RN Breakfast says the Coalition needs to focus on the government and land some blows rather than talking about the internal divisions of the opposition.
He acknowledges the damage done to their voter base, but says the “past is the past” and the party should try and focus on the future.
On whose fault the split is, McGrath won’t ascribe blame, and asked how long it will take to win back the trust of voters, he says:
I don’t know. If I could predict the future, I would give one of those glass crystal balls a go, they can go to a circus fair and they predict the future and charge people money. Look, what we need to do is everybody just needs to calm down, have a cup of tea or a coffee and just work out that what unites us is more important than what may divide us in terms of any policy differences.
He says the Coalition continuing to whisper about itself is “boring”.
‘I’m not going to sprinkle gold dust on a cow pat’ McGrath says on Newspoll
The Liberal party is on some serious damage control this morning, with that tough Newspoll this morning showing the Coalition primary vote on just 18%.
Shadow special minister for state, James McGrath, a Queensland senator, has some pretty choice words for the situation, but says he’s “not surprised” at just how bad it is.
He tells RN Breakfast:
I’m not going to sprinkle gold dust on a cow pat. The polling is dire. It is horrible. It is terrible. But speaking as a former campaign director, I’m not surprised it’s this bad because we’ve spent three weeks having a very public discussion talking about ourselves.
Of course I’m angry about that. I’ve just spent the weekend going back home. I live out in the Darling Downs and wandering through the shops on Saturday … our people are angry because we’ve been talking about ourselves. And what we’ve got to do, and look, I’m guilty of this crime at the moment. I’m talking about ourselves on Radio National.
Coalition marked down for ‘talking about ourselves’ says Ley
The opposition leader, Sussan Ley says she understands why the public have marked her party down, as it struggles to land significant blows on the government.
Speaking to Seven’s Sunrise program, Ley is asked whether the latest Newspoll has her more concerned about the leadership threat from Angus Taylor, Ley says she’s not looking at the “optics” and will focus on the public.
I’m not concerned about the optics of what people commentate on in this building.
Millions of Australians are frustrated … And when they don’t see a clear united message coming out of Canberra, they mark us down.
[They’ve] looked at the disunity and the back and forwards, and they marked us down because they saw us talking about ourselves. But yesterday we drew a line under that. We we’ve resolved our differences, we’ve strengthened our processes, and we’re squarely focused Australians.
Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog has arrived in Sydney for a four-day trip to Australia to speak to survivors of the Bondi terror attack and their families.
Herzog touched down this morning with his wife, Michal Herzog according to the Israeli embassy. Israel’s ambassador, Amir Maimon met Herzog at the airport.
Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister, Patrick Gorman, was also there to receive Herzog at Sydney airport, from the government.
A court hearing this morning will determine whether planned marches against the visit can go ahead at Sydney Town Hall, contravening the NSW government’s public assembly declaration.
What does the Coalition stand for, asks Hume
It’s a question former frontbencher Jane Hume is grappling with this morning after the Coalition re-formed on Sunday, and has been hit with some tough polling numbers on Monday. She says the party is a “rabble”.
This morning’s Newspoll shows the Coalition is down to just an 18% primary vote, while One Nation skyrockets to 27%. The breakdown of that is 15% to the Liberal party and just 3% to the Nationals.
Hume tells Sky News this morning that Sussan Ley and David Littleproud are going to need to figure out how to get the opposition out of the “hole” they’re stuck in, and deliver a message that resonates with the public.
My message to my leaders, both Liberal and National, is, please, time to express what it is that we’re fighting for. Time to express who it is that we’re fighting for. Because this Newspoll is so bad that we haven’t even been compared to Labor. They haven’t even bothered to do a two party preferred number.
I do believe that it’s time for the leaders to take a look like good, hard look at themselves, and decide what it is that they’re going to do to get us out of this hole.
Hume says the party needs a “reset”, and host Pete Stefanovic, asks Hume whether this means a leadership reset. She says:
I can’t answer that question. What I can only say is that at some point we need to do a reset and say, what is it that we stand for? Who is it that we’re fighting for, and what policies are we presenting? Because the more we talk about ourselves, the less people listen to us.
Good morning. Krishani Dhanji here with you for another sitting week, and there is so. much. going. on.
The Coalition have reunited after a near three week split this time, and will sit together on the opposition benches again. This also means they’ll get back all their extra questions that were given to the crossbench, but not everyone in the Liberal party is happy with the concessions made to the Nationals.
Sussan Ley is doing the media rounds to explain how they’ll remain together and while the Coalition faces some pretty dire polling it’s opening up speculation even further about a potential leadership spill. There will be plenty of reaction to that.
The Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, has arrived in Sydney this morning, with a rally to go ahead there. Within Labor’s own ranks Ed Husic said last week he had “deep concerns” about the visit.
Meanwhile the Labor government will continue trudging along after the PM returned from Indonesia on the weekend to sign a defence pact.
Stick with us, it’s going to be a busy one!
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