Politics Live: Turnbull government debates schools and banks budget measures

End of the day for me. What happened?

• Parliament marked the 50th anniversary of the 1967 referendum;
• the government may face difficulties getting enough support for its school funding package;
• there are signs the Greens are not as happy with it as was initially suggested;
• the opposition continued to needle the government over the bank levy in question time; and
• there is more trouble for One Nation with the arrest of a senator's staffer.

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Dr Aly said much more needed to be done to beef up security at "soft targets", such as concert venues, and intervene where people are known to police and security agencies.

"These days, the way that terrorism has changed is that there are many more indicators that we're aware of, there are much better intelligence coordination that allows us to be able to pinpoint people earlier. And so we need to be able to intervene earlier as well," Dr Aly said.

In the days before she was a Labor MP, Anne Aly was an international counter terrorism expert.

Dr Aly says there are three reasons why terrorists choose a particular target.

"The first one is that they're opportunists, so they look for places where there is no security or very little security, where they have easy access in to and out of a venue," Dr Aly told Perth radio earlier today.

"The second one, as heinous as this might sound, is that they look for places where they can inflict the most damage. So where people congregate, where there are large numbers of people, where a bomb is likely to cause the most deaths. And the third reason is a symbolic value. So, a venue where people are having fun, taking advantage of the freedoms that we enjoy here in western democracies, you know they want to send a message so to speak."

The attempt to suspend standing orders was unsuccessful and so we return to question time which speedily comes to a conclusion.

The opposition is trying to suspend standing orders to deal with the issue of the bank levy which, Mr Bowen says, is a result of Mr Morrison's "incompetence".

Just a reminder we won't know which side is correct until we see the bank levy legislation. And we won't see that until next week.

The opposition maintains there is a $2 billion funding hole in the cost of the bank levy.

Mr Morrison is annoyed: "Get over it. Get on board."

The opposition is persisting with its questions about the total funding that will be available to schools under the new funding package (which is doesn't support) and the cost of the bank levy (which it does).

Treasurer Scott Morrison suggests his opposition counterpart, Chris Bowen, is playing the part of the Emperor with no clothes on the topic of the bank levy.

"It's a horrible thought, I apologise to the house," Mr Morrison says.

We're back on the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

Social Services Minister Christian Porter says the scheme is "the best insurance policy anyone anywhere in the world could ever hope for".

There is a bit of a strange vibe in question time.

The government is using its questions to ask about the Manchester attacks.

The opposition wants to ask about education but is prefacing questions with support for the government's statements about security.

It is hard to go from offering support to doggedly prosecuting a case.

"We must be more agile than those who seek to do us harm," Mr Turnbull says in response to a question about the Manchester attack.

"There are no guarantees, of course....We will do all we can, as we always have, to keep Australia safe."

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is using the final 90 second statement before question time begins to defend Labor's record on the National Disability Insurance Scheme which the government has been relentlessly lashing this week.

"If you want to raise taxes on 10 million Australians, you'll have to come through us, you'll have to come through Labor," Mr Shorten says.

Nearly question time.

Communications Minister Mitch Fifield has weighed into the issue of what the online edition of Quadrant magazine said about the ABC and the Manchester attack.

"We can all disagree with what particular media outlets do and say. That is appropriate in a democracy. But the comments by Quadrant are sick and unhinged," Senator Fifield said.

Nice picture of Mr Turnbull with Bonita Mabo, Eddie Mabo's widow, taken by his office:

There's never a dull moment in the Labor Party.

Former Labor MP Darren Cheeseman has had a spray at frontbencher Anthony Albanese on Facebook.

Mr Cheeseman, a former Left faction MP who served from 2007 to 2013, also compared Mr Albanese to former Labor leader Mark Latham (there is no worse insult).

The assistant secretary of the Victorian ALP Kosmos Samaras - who is close to senior MP Kim Carr, a factional enemy of Mr Albanese - also fired a shot off saying some members of Labor's Left "are always batting for the well off".

The government won't be happy to hear that.

If Mr Bandt's position is indicative of his party's position then the government faces a very tricky negotiation with the Senate crossbench to get its school funding package through.

Mr Bandt likes the original Gonski funding recommendations - but not the alterations made by the Gillard government.

He is also less than enthusiastic about the Turnbull government's package.

"I cannot vote for this bill," Mr Bandt says.

Greens MP Adam Bandt is speaking on the government's school funding legislation.

This should be interesting given his party spokeswoman's controversial support for the government's move.

Greens leader Richard Di Natale said yesterday he would not make up his mind until after a Senate inquiry into the legislation.

"As a party our commitment to public schools is rock solid," Mr Bandt says.

Senator Birmingham tells the students the media is made up of "mostly nice people" who can sometimes "be tricky" and his favourite book is Catch 22.

Oh and his government is trying very hard to make schools better if only some of the other politicians weren't getting in the way.

Education Minister Simon Birmingham has popped into a school in Queanbeyan to participate in National Simultaneous Storytime, an event with a terrible name but a great message - to encourage kids to read more.

Senator Birmingham has answered some questions from students about perserverance (it took him a few tries to get into politics so keep going), the hardest thing about his job (asking the right questions to get the information he needs) and his favourite colour (it's green because of the environment).