Push to refer Scott Morrison to privileges committee fails – as it happened
At the same time, Tony Burke was speaking to Patricia Karvelas on ABC radio RN about the referendum machineries legislation which, has to go through the parliament to enable the voice vote.
Burke:
So the machinery, there’s two different bits that have to go through the parliament. The first is updating the referendum laws themselves. That’s been introduced to the parliament. There’s a committee that’s looking at it now. And so it’s sort of sitting in the House of Representatives issued report in the next couple of weeks and, and then the mission that part of it will go through, then you deal with the second bill a bit later in the year. So in the probably the second quarter of the year. And that’s the bill that has the question, and the specific word for word changes that would go into the constitution, that one has to be passed by an absolute majority of each house of the parliament. And once that’s happened, then the deadlines as to when the vote will happen are all locked in.
On Peter Dutton’s claims due process has not be followed for this referendum, Burke says:
I gotta say, I can’t think of any referendum proposal where there has been more process than this. Read More..
