1. This week Labor’s focus was jobs. Not just any jobs: secure jobs with decent pay. That’s what Australians need coming out of this pandemic, that’s what the Labor Party wants to deliver and that’s what Scott Morrison’s industrial relations changes fail to deliver. We used almost every question this week to pursue the government over their IR scheme, which will allow huge pay cuts for workers. Penalty rates, shift allowances and other entitlements: they’re all on the chopping block for millions of workers. Anthony Albanese led the attack each day with follow-up questions from Richard Marles and myself. Backbenchers Emma McBride, Ged Kearney, Steve Georganas, Rob Mitchell and Kristy McBain also asked questions detailing the impact of the potential pay cuts on ordinary people. Scroll down to worst to see how the government handled our questions.

2. Josh Frydenberg gets two spots in the 5&5 this week, the first because he was actually honest for once. On Tuesday Jim Chalmers asked: “Why is the government cutting JobKeeper for the tourism industry but can afford to splash $100 million on sports rorts?” Josh responded by saying JobKeeper was “always a temporary program”. Jaws dropped on the government benches and our side fell about laughing. So JobKeeper’s temporary but the rorts are permanent? Thanks for the refreshing honesty Josh.

3. You’ve probably already seen the footage of Scott Morrison’s hand-picked Liberal MP accosting Tanya Plibersek in the Parliament House corridor and spouting his conspiracy theory drivel. Tanya handled the situation superbly so I had to include her here. Also it’s another excuse to run this brilliant photo by Nine’s Dom Lorrimer.

4. This moment also led to an hilarious exchange in the chamber when Labor MP Tim Watts said, quite rightly, Kelly had “accosted” Tanya in the hallway. Liberal MP Luke Howarth suddenly burst into the chamber, incandescent with confected outrage, and called on Watts to withdraw the word. “It’s a bloody disgrace!” Howarth cried. Labor’s Rob Mitchell, who was in the chair, kicked Howarth out of the chamber for unparliamentary language and Watts merrily continued his speech.

5. Our Senate team had some fun on Tuesday after they somehow got their hands on the government’s question time pack. Meaning they knew every dixer the government was going to ask. They read aloud along with every question and the government looked like a bunch of dills.

1. This is very telling. Scott Morrison isn’t out spruiking his industrial relations changes. He isn’t making the case for them. He isn’t even defending them in the Parliament. Instead - bizarrely - he’s pretending they don’t exist. The Coalition’s slide into Trumpian black-is-white up-is-down post-truth politics continues.

2. Christian Porter is playing the same denial game. On Thursday Anthony pointed to the exact part of their IR Bill that allows for pay cuts. Porter then stood up, read out the first three words of the clause and pretended the rest didn’t exist. It was only after Albo read out the clause word for word that Porter conceded: “I see what the member is getting at there.” But he then tried to claim that the government’s amendment was precisely the same as previous Labor legislation. It’s absolutely not - and if it was exactly the same it wouldn’t be an amendment, would it?

3. You probably would have seen Scott Morrison refuse to answer questions in press conferences. He just arrogantly dismisses questions he doesn’t like and moves on. What you might not know is he’s doing something similar in Question Time. More than any other Prime Minister I can remember he’s just shamelessly refusing to even try and respond to the questions we ask him. Rather he just flicks the question to his ministers because he doesn’t want to take any responsibility for his government’s actions, policies and scandals. Gutless.

4. Just a few minutes before Josh was inadvertently honest he’d been flagrantly inventing things so let’s not give him too much credit. In answer to a question from his own side he suddenly declared “I take the interjections from those opposite!” The only problem was there hadn’t been any interjections. We were all sitting there quiet as church mice. Speaker Tony Smith had to intervene to stop Josh’s ridiculous theatrics: “We have enough interjections without the Treasurer inventing them.” I reckon the Treasurer had been practicing in front of the mirror.

5. I’ve never seen anything like this before. On Thursday Linda Burney moved a series of amendments to try and improve the Government’s redress scheme for child sexual abuse. They were all sensible amendments but the Government voted against all of them. Adding insult to injury, they didn’t even bother to tell the chamber why they were opposing our changes. So I stood up and called on the relevant Minister - Stuart Robert - to explain the government’s position. The Government voted against that too - meaning Government members actually voted to prevent a Government Minister from speaking. Even Stuart Robert voted against Stuart Robert speaking.

Well that’s it for week one. We’ve got a short break and then we’re back for a fortnight.

PS. Song of the week: This is amazing. A member of the public named Rick Burchall sent this to me. It's a song he wrote and performed about the Morrison Government's obsession with shutting down debate. It's really clever. Listen and read the lyrics here:

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