Terri Butler Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for the Environment and Water
11:57 am
Thank you. I move:
That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Griffith from moving the following motion immediately. That this House:
(1) notes:
(a) for two days, coalition MPs have voted to keep the Member for Bowman as Chair of the Standing Committee, Employment, Education and Training, which allows him to claim an extra $23,000 on top of his base salary—
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Government Member:
A government member interjecting—
Tony Smith Speaker
I'll just say to the minister that the member for Griffith is entitled to move the motion.
Honourable members interjecting—
The member for Isaacs is warned. Members on both sides will cease interjecting or I'll start ejecting. I'm now going to ask the member for Griffith to begin again.
Terri Butler Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for the Environment and Water
Thank you, Mr Speaker. I move:
That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Griffith from moving the following motion immediately. That this House:
(1) notes:
(a) for two days, coalition MPs have voted to keep the Member for Bowman as Chair of the Standing Committee, Employment, Education and Training, which allows him to claim an extra $23,000 on top of his base salary;
(b) the Member for Bowman stated on March 27 he would "step down from all Parliamentary roles effective immediately", but has failed to do so;
(c) the Prime Minister now appears to accept the Member for Bowman's defence of his behaviour towards woman; and
(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) therefore, calls on the Prime Minister to discharge the Member for Bowman from the Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training immediately.
This motion is important, because this goes to the treatment of women and the conduct of this House.
Peter Dutton Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Defence
12:00 pm
I move:
That the member be no longer heard.
Tony Smith Speaker
The question is that the member for Griffith be no further heard.
Anika Wells Lilley, Australian Labor Party
12:09 pm
I second the motion. What does it take to be sacked from the Liberal Party? In any other workplace, Laming would be gone! He would be—
Michael McCormack Riverina, National Party, Leader of the Nationals
I move:
That the member for Lilley be no longer heard.
Tony Smith Speaker
The question is that the member for Lilley be no further heard.
Tony Smith Speaker
12:13 pm
The question now is that the motion moved by the member for Griffith be disagreed to.