Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

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

That the House:

(1) requests the Treasurer acts in accordance with Clause 5.1 of the Prime Minister's Statement of Ministerial Standards by attending the House of Representatives as soon as practicable to explain the discrepancy between:

(a) his statement in Question Time yesterday 'The only other group that I am aware of in this parliament who has raised it and had modelling and assumptions worked out on a GST increase is the member for McMahon, when he was the Treasurer'; and

(b) reports today in The Sydney Morning Herald that the Treasurer is in possession of modelling requested by the Liberal government on the impact of a 15 percent GST; and

(2) notes that if today’s media report is accurate, the Treasurer has misled the House.

Mr Speaker, there is one principle in this House and it has taken a beating from two ministers—

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