Victoria's Labor party calls opposition's decision to walk out of question time 'a publicity stunt'

ABC NEWS (Australia)

John Pesutto and his coalition colleagues walked out of Question Time yesterday over frustrations the Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan was avoiding questions on the CFMEU.

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00:00A morning walk through a major development in Melbourne's Bayside suburbs, and size

00:07seems to matter to Labor's Danny Pearson.

00:10Look, this was a pathetic little stunt by a shouting little man.

00:16Parliament should be a place of robust debate, but that robust debate must be respectful

00:22debate.

00:23But Danny Pearson may not have got that memo making a series of comments about Mr Pasuto's

00:29height.

00:30What would you expect from a shouty little man like John Pasuto?

00:33Is that appropriate to call him little?

00:36As I said, it wasn't just in relation to his stature, it relates to his vision.

00:42Jabs about height aside, the opposition is vowing to keep pressuring the government over

00:47the CFMEU scandal.

00:49Parliament sits again later this month, and question time isn't usually compulsive viewing,

00:53but after the week we've just had, who knows what will come next.

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