Queensland Labor expels MP after LNP raises domestic violence allegations

Member for Stafford Jimmy Sullivan responds with defiant statement accusing Labor MPs of cheap political move' against him

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Queensland Labor has voted to expel one of its members from caucus in a move labelled unprecedented" by the state party's leader, Steven Miles.

The member for Stafford, Jimmy Sullivan, was subsequently ejected from the Labor party entirely on Monday night, after a meeting of its administrative committee.

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