{"id":24130,"date":"2015-03-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/sticky-end-to-federal-mp-s-bunker-shot\/"},"modified":"2015-03-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T00:00:00","slug":"sticky-end-to-federal-mp-s-bunker-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/sticky-end-to-federal-mp-s-bunker-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Sticky end to federal MP’s bunker shot"},"content":{"rendered":"
Image | Andrew Meares via Twitter<\/h6>\n

A federal MP has been suspended from parliament after spilling oil on the floor of a chamber during a speech attacking the cruise liner industry’s pollution record.<\/h3>\n

Queensland Liberal National Party MP Andrew Laming raised the issue in parliament’s Federation Chamber on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

“This stuff should not be burned where people live,” he said, holding a small bottle of the highly flammable bunker fuel.<\/p>\n

“This stuff is revolting.”<\/p>\n

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The MP ignored a call by the acting Speaker to stop using props – a breach of parliamentary standing orders.<\/p>\n

“I insist on the cruise ship industry to clean up their act and burn the clean stuff like they do in the rest of the world,” Mr Laming said.<\/p>\n

To emphasise his point, he poured out the thick black fuel into his hands and rubbed them together, in the process spilling it on a desk and the floor.<\/p>\n

When he sat down, Mr Laming was seen to be laughing at the incident.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Speaker Bronwyn Bishop told parliament the action had been disorderly and dangerous and she “named” the MP.<\/p>\n

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