Susan Templeman (Macquarie, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Macquarie from moving the following motion immediately—

That this House:

(1) notes:

(a) the Member for Bowman continues to defend actions like stalking and abusing his own constituents online, and the Prime Minister has failed to take appropriate action;

(b) the Member for Bowman stated on March 27 he would "step down from all parliamentary roles effective immediately", but has failed to relinquished his chairmanship of the Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training which gives him extra salary;

(c) coalition members have now voted nine times to keep the Member for Bowman as Chair of the committee, including the coalition members of that committee, the Members for;

  (i) Moncrieff

  (ii) Groom

  (iii) Curtin

  (iv) New England; and

  (v) Longman; and

(d) by voting to keep the Member for Bowman as Chair of the committee, the Prime Minister and everyone who sits behind him in this House is endorsing the Member for Bowman's behaviour; and

(2) therefore, calls on the Prime Minister to discharge the Member for Bowman from the Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training immediately.

How dare this man think he has the right to sit in this chamber and chair this committee with decent members of parliament who respect their constituents? This member does not deserve to have a place here.

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