Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Attorney General) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to move a motion of censure against the Prime Minister.

Leave not granted.

I move:

That so much of standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the member for Isaacs from moving the following motion forthwith:

That the House:

(1) condemns the Prime Minister and government for putting politics before the security of Australians by:

  (a) revealing sensitive information of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation for the sake of a media opportunity;

  (b) leading a party that seeks to raise political donations by trading on the safety of our nation; and

  (c) preparing blatantly political question time briefings that seek to create division, not unity; and

(2) calls on the Prime Minister to explain immediately:

  (a) whether the Prime Minister or his office authorised the media event held at the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation;

  (b) whether the Attorney-General or his office authorised the media event held at the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation;

  (c) what security considerations were taken prior to the media event held at the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation;

  (d) whether this sensitive information was for official use only;

  (e) whether the government has facilitated a significant security breach; and

  (f) what steps the Prime Minister will take to repair the damage done by this breach?

The Prime Minister has been using national security for partisan political purposes for—

Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Minister for Social Services) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the member be no longer heard.

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that the member be no longer heard.

Is there a seconder for the suspension motion?

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I second the motion. ASIO should not be used as a prop for a Liberal Party photo opportunity.

Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Minister for Social Services) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the member be no longer heard.

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that the member be no longer heard.

The question now is that the suspension motion be agreed to.

Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Minister for Social Services) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the question be now put.

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that the motion be put.

The question now is that the suspension motion be agreed to.