House debates Motions

Member for Bowman

Wednesday, 2 June 2021 House of Representatives

Joanne Ryan

Joanne Ryan Lalor, Australian Labor Party

9:31 am

I move:

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

That the House

(1) notes

(a) it has now been two months since the Member for Bowman said he would resign from all parliamentary positions, yet he remains as chair of the Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training;

(b) government MPs, including the Prime Minister and members of that very committee, have voted to keep the Member for Bowman in his role; and

(c) the Member for Bowman is not fit to be a member of this parliament and it is about time the Prime Minister did something about that; and

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

The empathy training didn't work for the Prime Minister and it hasn't worked for the member for Bowman—

Michael Sukkar

Michael Sukkar Deakin, Liberal Party, Assistant Treasurer

9:32 am

I move:

That the Member be no longer heard.

Tony Smith

Tony Smith Speaker

The question is that the member for Lalor be no further heard.

Tony Smith

Tony Smith Speaker

9:40 am

Is the motion seconded? The member for Moreton.

Graham Perrett

Graham Perrett Moreton, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Education

If the member for Bowman can't learn from his own mistakes—

Tony Smith

Tony Smith Speaker

The member for Moreton will resume his seat. The motion lapses for want of a seconder.