Australia politics live: Labor unveils discount loans for new EVs; Liberals and Nationals to sit separately as parliament returns

By Krishani Dhanji · The Guardian World

Reserve Bank due to announce decision on interest rates this afternoon. Follow today’s news live Liberals to get fewer questions in Question Time With the Coalition parties still split, the Liberals will get fewer questions in parliament’s Question Time today. We’re told that with the diminished Liberals sitting on their own and the Nationals now on the crossbench, the official opposition and the crossbenchers will get the same number of questions - likely five each. It had never occurred to me that when Barnaby Joyce went to the crossbench, that the entire National Party would move to the crossbench with him … The crossbench is now as big as the opposition, so the arrangements for Question Time will be changed to reflect that. It says that we now have three divisive parties of the far right in Australia, and we’ve got one mainstream government which is focused on the things which really matter to people … I think it says that the right of politics is splintering. Continue reading...