Updated at 1.38pm AEST Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 12.57pm AEST03 57 Australian politics live: Lunchtime summary Here is bento box of political morsels this lunchtime: The government has introduced the package of carbon tax repeal bills for the third time, ready for the senate change over next week.
With much fanfare, Palmer announcing his official position on the carbon repeal on Wednesday night, ahead of his first meeting with Tony Abbott on Thursday.
Environment minister Greg Hunt has been out and about this morning on the ABC and on the doors at Parliament, "hoping and expecting but not presuming" the new senate will pass the carbon tax repeal bills, driving the final nail into the heart of Labor's emissions trading scheme.
His point again was about mandates and that Labor should be supporting the repeal, which he claims will cut the average electricity bill by $550 a year.
Another well-received speaker, Gary Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico and 2012 Libertarian party candidate for president, said "there's only one way to fix the Patriot Act: and that's to repeal the Patriot Act".
The government used question time to pressure Labor to pass the carbon tax repeal package while Labor concentrated on picking apart the effect of the Abbott budget on the hypothetical family on $65,000.
We strongly support the immediate repeal of the Endangered Species Act.
Mitt Romney brushed aside failure of the supreme court ruling to strike down the Affordable Care Act and vowed to put the repeal of "Obamacare" at the centre of his presidential campaign.
"What the court did not do on its last day in session, I will do on my first day if elected president of the United States, and that is I will act to repeal Obamacare.
(Indeed, it is a sad irony, unmentioned by those who advocate the repeal of this act that those with the most to lose are victims).
Perry said he would repeal several Obama-era regulations, including environmental protections and the Wall Street reform law Dodd-Frank.
