On the warning entrance, the LNP’s deputy chief Jarrod Bleijie led the pack with 43, carefully adopted by former chief Deb Frecklington on 40 – unmatched of their efforts of copping not less than one a sitting day.
Saunders topped the Labor listing with 13, whereas Dametto once more was told-off greater than his crossbench colleagues.
Queensland MPs Mark Bailey, Amy MacMahon, Tim Mander, Ros Bates and Nikki Boyd had been steadily suspended from parliament in 2023.
Solely 25 MPs managed to skate by means of the parliamentary yr with out a warning or booting on my calculations: the LNP’s Stephen Bennett the one LNP title on the good-behaviour listing, and Noosa impartial Sandy Bolton the one crossbencher.
(I’ve accomplished these calculations by scouring Hansard, the document of parliament’s proceedings, and tallying warnings and ejections with a doc processing software and what, I feel, is a good quantity of accuracy! However I’m all the time completely happy to be corrected.)
Past this listing, the snapshot offered by the ultimate sitting week of 2023 might additionally go away you with no illusions we are actually deep right into a year-long, slow-burn, quasi-election marketing campaign to finish the state’s first four-year mounted parliamentary time period.
The rising LNP marketing campaign slogan of “present Labor the door in ’24” was uttered 28 occasions by its MPs over the three days. Whereas the favorite “chaos and disaster” to explain the third-term Palaszczuk authorities’s dealing with of crime, housing, cost-of-living and well being points additionally had a number of runs on the board.
Labor used the week to do a number of belongings you would anticipate of presidency: passing payments (together with to carry help for victims of crime and lay the groundwork for the nation-leading launch of some cupboard paperwork) and introducing others (boosting midwife-to-patient ratios in maternity wards, increasing double jeopardy and banning the sale of knives and gel blasters to youngsters).
However its personal MPs additionally invoked the ever-looming (if drained) ghost of Campbell Newman’s one-term authorities not less than 19 occasions to assault the LNP.
Frontbencher Grace Grace additionally summoned the previous decade-long federal Coalition authorities to defend in opposition to LNP assaults on housing. “We don’t hear any options; all we hear is whingeing and whining from the policy-vacant bunch of members sitting reverse,” she added.
Which brings us neatly again to how the yr started, and commentary a couple of perceived lack of drive beneath Palaszczuk’s Labor. Such feedback have grown to a media roar at factors this yr amid souring polls and inner grumblings concerning the Premier nonetheless largely that: inner grumblings.
However, if this yr is something to go by, anticipate a rowdy 2024 – each in and out of doors parliament.
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