Opinion: Cuts to the staffing allocation of crossbench MPs is a slap in the face for newly elected independents and a setback for good governance and cultural renewal in Canberra | SophieScamps
It’s a curious tactical move for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, while he is in Europe mending bridges, to begin a war over staffing with the crossbench in the Senate and the House of Representatives.from four to one. This is not about budgetary cutbacks or a notion of so-called fairness between staffing of backbench MPs and crossbenchers.
The victory of Dai Le in Fowler – defeating a former NSW premier in Kristina Keneally – would have sent a particularly potent message to the Labor Party.Senior government ministers are rationalising the staffing shift as being about equity between backbenchers and crossbenchers. This is not a fair comparison. The reason crossbenchers are afforded more staff than a government backbencher is because they do not have the party machine behind them.
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