Dummy Spitting

Way back when at the now defunct Arafura Bowls club in Darwin the New Years Eve party would have a dummy spitting competition for all of the members who spat the dummy and left the club.

We on the committee would line up with a dummy for each member to see how far the dummy could actually be spat.  All good fun and a middle finger for the dummy spitters.

Parliament in Australia has done a massive dummy spit thanks to Llew O'Brien.

It required a petition so here it is.  The Petition hasn't been approved by the petitions committee yet, I am unsure if Llew quit the job as chair of the committee before he became deputy Speaker in the House.

• Reason: This week saw a ridiculous situation where a Queenslander, elected to parliament as a member of the LNP in Queensland spat the dummy and quit sitting with the Nationals in their party room. It makes a sham of what we do in Queensland. We either vote for the LNP or not. It shouldn't then be up to the whim of the MP to decide if they will be a National or a Liberal in parliament. Our dummy spitter decided he wouldn't be either National or Liberal, surely he must go to the Liberals if he was elected as an LNP MP or renounce his membership of the LNP and be just an independent? Relying on the whim of an individual to decide who they will represent in Parliament rather than on the vote of the electorate is not democracy. MPs are elected as LNP members and must represent the LNP in parliament.
• Request: We therefore ask the House to order the members of the LNP to be listed as a separate party within Parliament. 

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