Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the new parliament will ‘start with giving people respect’ - including a meeting with crossbench MPs ahead of parliament’s opening day
Australia’s 47th parliament opens this week, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said it will start with respect - and a meeting with crossbench MPs.
“It starts with giving people respect. And I’ve been respectful to any member of parliament who has sought to meet or to have a discussion by phone with me, I’ve done that,” Albanese said in an interview on Sky News. The government will have to deal with a crossbench that has swelled to 16 independent and minor party MPs following the May election, and in recognition of that increase they will now be allowed to ask three questions of the government during question time, leader of the house Tony Burke said on Sunday.
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