Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

I seek leave to move the following motion:

That the House:

(1) notes that today the Prime Minister has openly contradicted the claims of the former Prime Minister on the guns for votes scandal;

(2) notes that in the first 15 sitting days of the 45th Parliament:

(a) the Government became the first majority Government in more than 50 years to lose control of the House of Representatives;

(b) the Treasurer introduced legislation containing a $107 million black hole;

(c) the Senate ran out of legislation to debate;

(d) for the first time in Federation, a Government voted to condemn itself;

(e) the former Prime Minister outflanked the current Prime Minister on his left and his right;

(f) the Prime Minister was rolled by his extreme right-wing on issue after issue;

(g) the Prime Minister condoned an Attorney-General who had misled the Parliament;

(h) the Health Department refused to endorse the Prime Minister's absolute guarantee on the cost of seeing a doctor; and

(i) the Government considered trading guns for votes; and

(3) therefore, censures the Prime Minister for 15 sitting days of unprecedented chaos from a Government in disarray.

Leave not granted.

I move:

That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the member for Watson from moving the following motion forthwith—

That the House:

(1) notes that today the Prime Minister has openly contradicted the claims of the former Prime Minister on the guns for votes scandal;

(2) notes that in the first 15 sitting days of the 45th Parliament:

(a) the Government became the first majority Government in more than 50 years to lose control of the House of Representatives;

(b) the Treasurer introduced legislation containing a $107 million black hole;

(c) the Senate ran out of legislation to debate;

(d) for the first time in Federation, a Government voted to condemn itself;

(e) the former Prime Minister outflanked the current Prime Minister on his left and his right;

(f) the Prime Minister was rolled by his extreme right-wing on issue after issue;

(g) the Prime Minister condoned an Attorney-General who had misled the Parliament;

(h) the Health Department refused to endorse the Prime Minister's absolute guarantee on the cost of seeing a doctor; and

(i) the Government considered trading guns for votes; and

(3) therefore, censures the Prime Minister for 15 sitting days of unprecedented chaos from a Government in disarray.

You have got to hand it to them. They can fit a lot in in 15 days—

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