06:55

At a doorstop the manager of opposition business, Tony Burke, has attacked the question time shenanigans:



Today we had the longest question time in the history of federation. We didn’t have a long question time because the government wanted to answer questions. The same government that last year shut down question time so they could roll Malcolm Turnbull today kept question time going and going so that they didn’t have to vote on a motion about a royal commission for people with disabilities being abused.”

Burke rebutted suggestions from the government that the Coalition would’ve voted for the motion by noting at 12.15pm they all voted against it in the Senate.



Asked if Labor had the six of seven crossbench votes to pass the motion, Burke said he wouldn’t speak for the crossbench but the government “wouldn’t have gone to such lengths” if it had the numbers to defeat the motion.