Federal parliament will resume today for the first time in 2019 with the asylum seeker medical transfer bill to dominate talks.
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Labor refers Liberal MP Tim Wilson to AFP | Sky News AustraliaLabor has referred Liberal MP Tim Wilson, the chair of the inquiry into Labor’s franking credit policy, to the AFP. \n\nMatt Thistlewaite has urged authorities to launch investigations over claims Mr Wilson breached electoral laws by sharing voters data with Wilson Asset management. \n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison has thrown his support behind the Liberal MP and says he will not be removing him as chair. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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PM ‘appalled’ at Labor playing politics on border security | Sky News AustraliaFULL INTERVIEW: Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Independent MP Kerryn Phelps' refugee medical evacuation bill is a ‘stupid’ bill, and that he is ‘appalled’ the Labor party is playing politics on border security.\n\nThe proposed bill will allow doctors to ask for refugees and asylum seekers to be brought to Australia for medical assessment, then potential medical treatment.\n\nMr Morrison says that if changes are made to Australia’s border security, offshore processing centres closed by Liberals would have to be reopened, 'as people smugglers are monitoring the government'.\n\n\n
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Coalition playing politics over border security: Labor | Sky News AustraliaLabor frontbencher Andrew Leigh says the government is running a ‘fear campaign’ over border security as parliament resumes this week.\n\nThe lower house is preparing to debate a bill first brought forward by Wentworth MP Kerryn Phelps, which gives doctors greater discretion to transfer sick refugees and asylum seekers to Australia from offshore detention camps.\n\nLabor leader Bill Shorten will receive an ASIO briefing on the legislation, with security agencies allegedly warning that the legislation could result in over one thousand refugees and asylum seekers transferred to Australia from offshore camps.\n\nMr Leigh says Labor is ‘open to a middle way’ that maintains Australia’s border security but allows sick asylum seekers and refugees to secure the medical treatment they need.\n\n\n\n
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Labor calls for probe into ‘leaked’ banking royal commission report | Sky News AustraliaLabor says Australians deserve an investigation into whether the banking royal commission’s final report was leaked before its public release on Monday. \n\nFive hours before it was handed down, Labor claims $1 billion was thrown into bank stocks that eventually put $22 million into the pockets of investors. \n\nShadow Finance Minister Jim Chalmers has told Sky News ‘something very dodgy has happened here’.\n\nTreasurer Josh Frydenberg has denied any wrongdoing, saying market participants weren’t given information ahead of the report’s public release. \n\n\n\n
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Can’t trust Scott Morrison to hold banks to account: Labor | Sky News AustraliaFULL INTERVIEW: Shadow Minister for Financial Services Clare O’Neil has accused Prime Minister Scott Morrison of ‘walking back’ from his commitment to enact the reforms suggested by the banking royal commission.\n\nLabor is urging the government to adopt all 76 recommendations contained in Commissioner Kenneth Hayne’s report, which was handed down this week.\n\nThe Coalition has publicly baulked at some of the suggestions contained within the report, including reforms to the mortgage broker sector.\n\nMs O’Neil has told Sky News the Coalition’s 'sneaky' response shows the public 'cannot trust' Scott Morrison when it comes the big banks.\n\n\n\n
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Corruption body 'quarantines' $100,000 donated to NSW Labor | Sky News AustraliaThe NSW Labor party has been forced to 'quarantine' $100-thousand in donations after the state corruption body questioned whether or not they were legal. \n\nThe cash relates to donations from a fundraising dinner held by Chinese Friends of Labor in Sydney in 2015. \n\nThe Independent Commission Against Corruption raided the Labor Party offices in December, searching for documents relating to the investigation. \n\n\n\n
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Energy Minister slams Labor-left over 'crazy emissions targets' | Sky News AustraliaEnergy Minister Angus Taylor has slammed the left of the Labor party for what he calls pushing 'crazy emissions targets'.\n\nThe Labor party has pledged a 45 per cent reduction in emissions by 2030; a target the energy minister says will cost our economy.\n\nMr Taylor says Bill Shorten is giving in to the left of his party.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Coalition and Labor received Huang Xiangmo donations despite warnings | Sky News AustraliaThe Coalition and Labor party continued receiving political donations from Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo despite warnings from ASIO, News Corp senior correspondent Charles Miranda says. \n\nMr Miranda has told Sky News that Mr Huang made 'multiple million dollar donations' even after ASIO had warned former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and Labor leader Bill Shorten that the Chinese property developer was potentially an 'agent of influence' on the Chinese Communist Party payroll. \n\nMr Huang's citizenship application was stopped and his permanent residency cancelled by the Home Affairs office on Wednesday.\n\nThe decision from the department, made while Mr Huang was offshore, leaves him unable to re-enter Australia, where he has lived with his family since 2011. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n
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Labor engaging in a grubby, pathetic smear campaign: Wilson | Sky News AustraliaFULL INTERVIEW: Liberal MP Tim Wilson says Labor is running a ‘grubby, pathetic smear campaign’ against him, as he continues to advocate against its franking credits policy.\n\nThe opposition has accused Mr Wilson of having a conflict of interest and is calling on him to resign from the house economics committee.\n\nLabor MP Matt Thistlethwaite says Mr Wilson is a shareholder in a company that has been leading an inquiry against Labor's franking credits policy, which was not declared during public hearings.\n\nMr Wilson has denied this, saying ‘he fully disclosed’ his shareholdings and says even if he had not, Labor’s policy doesn’t impact him directly.\n\nLabor is pushing forward with its policy to end excess cash refunds paid to retirees and superannuation funds, which if implemented will net the budget bottom line $55.7 billion within two years.\n\nMr Wilson says despite ‘the attacks against him’ he will continue to advocate against Labor’s policy.\n\n\n\n
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