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State parliament returns with a three-day sitting set to feature the newly elected MP for Stafford.
Health Minister Tim Nicholls has accused Labor of fearmongering over a symbolic Katter’s Australian Party motion seeking to prevent an update to laws allowing some nurses and midwives to provide abortion medication.
Robbie Katter’s effort, set to be debated in parliament tonight, is significant because it will bypass aQueensland Health Minister Tim Nicholls. The Labor opposition has seized on the Katter move, labelling it a test for Premier David Crisafulli andRounding out the government’s ministerial statements, Nicholls described Labor’s suggestion that Katter’s “misinformed and misconceived disallowance motion” would change anything to do with abortion access was “shameless fearmongering”.
“This is a repeat of the same shameful campaign they waged in the lead up to the October 2024 election,” Nicholls said. “There have been and there will be no changes to termination of pregnancy laws, and those opposite know it. ” “Those opposite know that the disallowance motion will make no change whatsoever to established access to termination of pregnancy services or medication, but, Mr Speaker, that does not stop them from stoking fear and division in our community”.
Health Minister Tim Nicholls has accused Labor of fearmongering over a symbolic Katter’s Australian Party motion seeking to prevent an update to laws allowing some nurses and midwives to provide abortion medication. Robbie Katter’s effort, set to be debated in parliament tonight, is significant because it will bypass aHealth Minister Tim Nicholls accused the Opposition of stoking fears on abortion laws for political gain.
The Labor opposition has seized on the Katter move, labelling it a test for Premier David Crisafulli andRounding out the government’s ministerial statements, Nicholls described Labor’s suggestion that Katter’s “misinformed and misconceived disallowance motion” would change anything to do with abortion access was “shameless fearmongering”.
“This is a repeat of the same shameful campaign they waged in the lead up to the October 2024 election,” Nicholls said. “There have been and there will be no changes to termination of pregnancy laws, and those opposite know it. ” ”Those opposite know that the disallowance motion will make no change whatsoever to established access to termination of pregnancy services or medication, but, Mr Speaker, that does not stop them from stoking fear and division in our community”.
Luke Richmond, for the northern Brisbane seat of Stafford, has been sworn in and taken his seat up the back of the chamber. Shadow treasurer Shannon Fentiman has also been referred to the parliament’s ethics committee for some comments she made in the last sitting week.
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