Labor pushes to refer Tim Wilson to privileges committee

Motion raises questions regarding the politicisation of the inquiry into Labor’s franking credit policy

Labor has pushed to refer Liberal MP Tim Wilson to the privileges committee over politicisation of a parliamentary inquiry into the opposition’s franking credit policy.

On Wednesday Tony Burke, the manager of opposition business, asked the speaker, Tony Smith, to give precedence to a motion to refer Wilson, questioning whether he had harmed the “dignity of the parliament and its committee system”.

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