Greens senator Peter Whish-Wilson has questioned whether the country’s fuel should be used to transport back thousands of workers to Canberra amid fuel strains due to the war in the Middle East.
He said reverting to operations used during the COVID-19 pandemic — during which politicians had systems installed to work from home, give speeches and hear chamber voting — would demonstrate the seriousness of the crisis.
“Maybe we’ve got to do the same thing. We’ve got to demonstrate and lead by example and scale back parliaments like we did during COVID,” he told reporters in Canberra on Thursday.
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