Teal MPs want action on Albanese ‘too-hard basket’
Dan Jervis-Bardy
Crossbenchers have condemned the Albanese government’s failure to respond to scores of parliamentary inquiries, decrying it as disrespectful to the parliament, the public and “genuinely not good enough”.
The independent MPs appeared at a press conference on Tuesday morning holding “Albanese’s too hard basket” – a literal basket filled with committee reports that have been ignored for months after the findings were published.
Procedure requires that the government responds within six months of the report’s tabling.
Among the pile was the late Peta Murphy’s inquiry into gambling advertising as well as…