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‹ Order of Business Lone-parent motion
Summary
Senator Craughwell seconds and then humorously thirds Senator Norris’s proposal for a debate on lone-parent payments, criticising the Government’s policy and the Minister’s absence.
We are getting ourselves into a bit of a mess in this House. We now have a policy to drive lone parents into poverty and the Whip of the smaller party in the coalition Government is opposed to that policy, yet we cannot get the Minister to attend the House-----
Comment on this
-----to support that. In view of this I second Senator Norris's proposal.
