Peta Murphy (Dunkley, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the member for Dunkley from moving the following motion immediately:

That the House:

(1) notes that:

  (a) the member for Bowman stated on 27 March that he would step down from all parliamentary roles, effective immediately, but has not relinquished his chairmanship of the Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training, which gives him extra salary;

  (b) the Prime Minister has refused to respond appropriately to allegations made against the member for Bowman by forcing him to step down from his chairmanship;

  (c) coalition members have now voted 12 times to keep the member for Bowman as chair of the committee, including coalition members of that committee;

  (d) by voting to keep the member for Bowman as chair of this committee, the Prime Minister and everyone who sits behind him in this House is endorsing the member for Bowman's behaviour;

(2) and therefore calls on the Prime Minister to discharge the member for Bowman from the Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training immediately.

This is outrageous leadership—

See this speech in context