Comment on Greens and Coalition bristle against Labor’s changes to the standing orders [to allow kicking out MPs for longer and to avoid recording the names of MPs who on some motions]

Tenderizer@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And the information will apparently be recorded

  Oh? Where did you read that? From what I could find, they only seem to be recording the names of people who voted in the minority. There’s no way to differentiate between non-voters and those who voted in the majority.

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  • Tenderizer@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The names of the Members who are in the minority shall be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings.

    Given the amount people are up in arms, you’d assume they’re hiding who those 6 people are entirely (and even if they were, it’ll really only benefit fringe mp’s like the Greens). Sure, it lumps the yes votes with non-attendance but if the vote is overwhelming I don’t think a few people not showing up is of much concern to the public interest. Plus the crossbench is well over 6 people so if it’s just the major parties this won’t even trigger.

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• MisterFrog@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is extremely unreasonable. It should be on record how an individual MP voted on every single bill. How else are we supposed to hold them to account?

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