Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Attorney General) Share 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—

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