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Politics Live: May 15, 2014

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If you want an election, try us.

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten acknowledges applause from the public gallery after delivering the Budget reply. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
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With the budget replied to and the reply replied to, it's time for us to scoot.

We have a long night planned of watching and re-watching that Pyne footage from yesterday to wonder if he possibly said something other than "grub".

Before we do, what did we learn today?

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And oh, the politics continue.

Tony Burke has just suggested that Christopher Pyne prompted Bronwyn Bishop to stand up during the post-speech applause for Shorten, to quieten the chamber down.

So here's another video for you to watch and make up your mind about.

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Coalition MP Wyatt Roy, however, has a different take on the performance.

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There is a thumbs up for Shorten from his shadow treasurer.

 

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Uh oh.

Hockey is comparing Shorten to opposition leaders past.

Brendan Nelson, Mark Latham and Tony Abbott have all offered policy ideas in their budget replies, he says.

"He offered nothing, which is something I haven't seen before ... it was quite an extraordinary display."

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Hockey has begun his doorstop, and hits right back, saying there is "nothing in the form of a new policy" in the Labor response.

Shorten is "effectively in denial about Labor's [debt] legacy".

"It was all politics, no policy."

 

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Treasurer Joe Hockey has a doorstop coming up at the ministerial doors of Parliament House at 8.30pm - for a reply to the budget reply. 

 

Christopher Pyne and Joe Hockey react to taunts from Opposition Leader Bill Shorten during the Budget Reply. Photo: Andrew Meares
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Interestingly, with so much hinging on the Senate, the Labor leader says he has not had "extended negotiations" with the Palmer and the other crossbenchers.

But he says he is watching what the minority party senators (and senators elect) say "with great interest".

(What about just picking up the phone?)

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Shorten has headed straight into an interview with 7.30's Sarah Ferguson.

Here things don't go quite as smoothly as in the chamber.

As we heard in his speech, he's committed to opposing the petrol tax, changes to higher education, Newstart, the age pension and the GP co-payment.

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