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

I seek leave to move a motion of censure against the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Attorney-General and the Prime Minister.

Leave not granted.

I move:

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

That the House censures, firstly, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Attorney-General

(a) for misleading the parliament over serious and legitimate questions relating to the national security and the safety of Australia;

(b) for breaching the Prime Minister's own statement of ministerial standards by:

(1) failing to correct the record in the parliament at the earliest opportunity in relation to matters of national security;

(2) failing to be honest in their conduct of public office; and

(3) failing to take all reasonable steps to ensure that the public or the parliament is not misled.

And, secondly, the Prime Minister:

(a) for allowing his ministers to mislead the parliament over serious and legitimate questions relating to national security and the safety of Australia; and

(b) for allowing his ministers to breach his own statement of ministerial standards.

Time and again, this government has shown itself—

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