The coronavirus outbreak, middle east security, combating Climate Change, and the recent australia wildfires. This is half an hour. Hello and welcome to question time, where we play the highlights of question time in australias parliament. Wildfires ravaged the east coast of australia over the summer have died down, the political fallout is just beginning. Question time and parliament began with a bipartisan day honoring those fire victims and thanking the volunteers who helped fight the fires. It did not take long before the conversation quickly turned to politics. My question is to the Prime Minister why does the Prime Minister claim he always acted on the advice of fire commissioners when he ignored for two years their advice to provide determinate boost to australias aerial firefighting capabilities . Mr. Speaker, i think the member for her question, and i pass on again my sincere condolences and sympathies and support to all those members in her electorate. I have members in my fa
This is half an hour. Hello and welcome to question time, where we play the highlights of question time in australias parliament. Wildfires ravaged the east coast of australia over the summer have died down, the political fallout is just beginning. Question time and parliament began with a bipartisan day honoring those fire victims and thanking the volunteers who helped fight the fires. It did not take long before the conversation quickly turned to politics. My question is to the Prime Minister why does the Prime Minister claim he always acted on the advice of fire commissioners when he ignored for two years their advice to provide determinate boost to australias aerial firefighting capabilities . Mr. Speaker, i think the member for her question, and i pass on again my sincere condolences and sympathies and support to all those members in her electorate. I have members in my family who lived in your electorate and i want to thank you for the work you have done, as all members have done
Potential changes to the u. S. Political system which he writes about in his book. [video clip] for this for ready anything whether it is going to be a breakout of larger proportions or whether or not we are at that very low level and we want to keep it that way. Yesterdayident trump flanked by white house officials reassuring americans about the response to the coronavirus. We want to get your thoughts on that. Republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Ndependents, 2027488002 text us with your first name, city, and state at 2027488001 or you can go to twitter at cspanwj and facebook. Com cspan. Before we get to your calls, lets begin with more of that News Conference from yesterday. The president rom talking about the state of the coronavirus. [video clip] earlyhave through decisions, closed our borders to flights coming in from certain byas, areas that were hit the coronavirus and hit hard. We did it early. A lot of people thought we should not do it early and it turned out to
Fisa courts as well. The president has asked for 2. 5 2. 5 billion dollars and Chuck Schumer is saying more like 8 billion. Guest it is easier to go for a lower number and ask for more. Congress is in session plenty of time between now and then, so it is rational to go with a lower number and spend more, but the president signaled, you want to give me more money, give me more money. I am sure he will make judicious use of it but be clear, we are borrowing it. Host what do you mean . Guest we are spending a trillion more than we have. Deficits do matter. Why run up the full death is full balance on the credit card instead of paying for what you need . Host what are you hearing about this coronavirus outbreak . Guest people are concerned about the supply chain and the timing hit as Chinese New Year was going in china. A lot of the supply chain goes back to china and tons of people did not go back to work, so you will see disruption in supply chains. It is also a demand shock because peop
Sympathies and support to all of those members in their electorate. I want to thank you for the work you have done. The member raise the matter recommendations regarding the assets, what the government has done to respond to that with two separate actions of funding which matched what they originally asked for i dealt with this during the bushfire season, in addition to those funding allocations of 11 million, on top of that we announce that further 20 million over and above the 15 million being provided each and every year as part of the arrangement we had. We are pleased to do that. Ongoing funding was addressed in this years budget. The house of representatives, the primacy was asked about preparedness and how they acted on this, and related to the catastrophic season. The leader of the opposition. My question is addressed to the primacy. Does the primacy regret saying volunteer firefighters dont need economic compensation for lost income because they want to be out there. Once agai