Joanne Ryan (Lalor, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

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

That the House

(1) notes

(a) it has now been two months since the Member for Bowman said he would resign from all parliamentary positions, yet he remains as chair of the Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training;

(b) government MPs, including the Prime Minister and members of that very committee, have voted to keep the Member for Bowman in his role; and

(c) the Member for Bowman is not fit to be a member of this parliament and it is about time the Prime Minister did something about that; and

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

The empathy training didn't work for the Prime Minister and it hasn't worked for the member for Bowman—

Michael Sukkar (Deakin, Liberal Party, Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Member be no longer heard.

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that the member for Lalor be no further heard.

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Is the motion seconded? The member for Moreton.

Graham Perrett (Moreton, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Education) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

If the member for Bowman can't learn from his own mistakes—

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Moreton will resume his seat. The motion lapses for want of a seconder.