If it did, the major parties would be tied at 43 seats each. The Member for Cook, Billy Gordon, has been called on to quit Parliament altogether. But if he does quit, there is every chance that the LNP could win back his far northern seat. Mr Gordon so far has resisted the call to resign. So only three days after asking the Parliament to express confidence in the Government, the Premier put her slim hold on power at risk. He also revealed that he had been served with an Apprehended Violence Order as a result of a complaint by his mother in 2008.Įnough was enough, and Ms Palaszczuk moved to expel Mr Gordon from the party and called on him to quit Parliament altogether. Then by Sunday, Mr Gordon had admitted to the party that he had a criminal record, including break and enter and public nuisance offences in the 1980s and 90s. The Premier revealed that she and the Labor Party had been aware of those claims for more than a week, and she referred the matter to police. That was the start of a remarkably swift escalation in trouble over the weekend for the Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and her six-week old government.īy Friday night, allegations emerged that the Member for Cook, Billy Gordon, had been violent towards his former partner. Most people assumed he was speculating about one of those unpredictable dramas that can crop up in the life of any parliament, months down the track.īut only 24 hours later, a government MP admitted to the house that he had been lax in making child support payments following a failed relationship. "We are only a hair's breadth away from potentially forming government should there be some other incident during this Parliament," he said. Last week in the Queensland Parliament, during a debate of confidence in the minority Labor government, the Deputy Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek said something prescient. The sacking of new Labor MP Billy Gordon is a nightmare scenario for Annastacia Palaszczuk who must now face the possibility of stepping down as Premier so soon after her surprise election win in January, writes Chris O'Brien.
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