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

I seek leave to move the following motion:

That the House:

(1) notes:

(a) the Special Minister of State has admitted on 60 Minutes that he procured a Commonwealth officer to obtain unauthorised copies of the former Speaker's diary;

(b) the Special Minister of State has repeatedly misled the parliament and breached the Prime Minister's statement of ministerial standards; and

(c) the Special Minister of State still has questions to answer about his role in the Ashby affair;

(2) censures the Prime Minister:

(a) for leading a government in which ministers are permitted to breach the Prime Minister's own statement of ministerial standards by misleading the parliament without any repercussions or sanctions;

(b) for awarding the member for Fisher with a job on the front bench for his role as a key henchman in the overthrow of the former Prime Minister;

(c) for his atrocious judgement in appointing the member for Fisher as the minister with responsibility for government integrity; and

(d) for his complete and utter failure to show any leadership and sack the Special Minister of State.

See this speech in context