NSW government takes extraordinary step of shutting down parliament early
Labor seized on a notice published in the government gazette on Thursday that said the state’s upper house would be prorogued, meaning shut down, from Monday.The government insisted it was procedural after Labor raised concerns the move could stop further inquiries into missing Liberal Party operatives or its final report into the John Barilaro trade scandal.
“Labor are focused on political games and should be ashamed of the lies and scare tactics they are undertaking,” he said. When Labor prorogued parliament ahead of the 2011 election, then opposition leader Barry O’Farrell described it as a denial of democracy.
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