The Labor MP Kate Thwaites has backed calls for fellow members to be sacked for serious breaches of a proposed new parliamentary code of conduct, saying consequences are “vital” to ending the “political culture of impunity” in Canberra.
Thwaites, who co-wrote an essay on Australia’s political culture with Labor heavyweight Jenny Macklin last year, said she agreed with the independent MP Kylea Tink’s view that MPs should be expelled from parliament for extreme breaches of a new code of conduct.
