The Greens are calling on the Prime Minister to stand down Assistant Treasurer Michael Sukkar while the Department of Finance investigates the misuse of taxpayer-funded positions, and to consider whether Sukkar\u2019s actions are in breach of the Ministerial Standards.
\n\u201cThe Prime Minister has asked Australians for their trust over the past few months. But Morrison continues to throw integrity overboard with his failure to act on the ongoing, multiple scandals involving his ministers,\u201d Greens co-Deputy leader, Senator Larissa Waters, said.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s a case of \u2018do as I say, not as I do\u2019, with Morrison. He jumped on the chance to smear Labor during its branch stacking scandal a few months ago, but deflects all responsibility when its his own frontbenchers making headlines.
\nSenator Waters, Greens spokesperson for Democracy, said the latest branch stacking scandal was further proof of why the Greens\u2019 National Integrity Commission Bill is needed, which passed the Senate almost a year ago.
\n\u201cThe public generally thinks politicians are all corrupt, in it for themselves, and behave like pork chops in parliament, and I don\u2019t blame them,” Senator Waters said.
\n\u201cWe are still waiting for the Prime Minister to call my federal watchdog with teeth on for a vote in the House of Representatives, almost a year after the Senate passed it. The government hasn\u2019t introduced its own legislation.\u00a0 And it has rejected the Greens\u2019 calls for a code of conduct for all politicians and senior staff to prevent exactly the sort of behaviour we\u2019ve seen reported this week.
\n\u201cTo Morrison, I say: tick tock. I\u2019m not the only one getting fed up with your delaying tactics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Greens are calling on the Prime Minister to stand down Assistant Treasurer Michael Sukkar while the Department of Finance investigates the misuse of taxpayer-funded positions, and to consider whether Sukkar\u2019s actions are in breach of the Ministerial Standards. \u201cThe Prime Minister has asked Australians for their trust over the past few months. But Morrison … Continue reading “Greens call on PM to stand down Sukkar”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}