Speaker rejects Greens push to refer Scott Morrison to privileges committee

Milton Dick found there was not enough evidence to suggest former PM deliberately misled parliament

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A push by the Greens to refer Scott Morrison to parliament's powerful privileges committee has been rejected by the Speaker, Milton Dick, who has found there was not enough evidence to say the former prime minister deliberately misled the lower house.

In a letter sent to the Greens leader, Adam Bandt, on Tuesday, Dick is understood to have advised the party that while Morrison's decision to have himself appointed to five additional portfolios was extremely serious", there was not enough prima facie evidence to suggest he had deliberately misled parliament.

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