Inside Victoria’s lower house, where non-government business isn’t allowed

Every week, independent MP Suzanna Sheed seeks leave to debate whether non-government business can be introduced. Photograph: Jackson Gallagher/The Guardian

For almost four years, Suzanna Sheed has started each parliamentary sitting week by moving the same motion.

The independent MP for Shepparton, a rural electorate of almost 50,000 people in northern Victoria, asks for a non-government business program to be reinstated in the state’s lower house.