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There has been a fiery start to the second last parliamentary sitting week before the election. The opposition has criticised Labor after announcing it will rush three pieces of legislation through the house with less than an hour of debate.

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00:00Uproar in the House.

00:04Those opposite have trashed Parliament.

00:06They are treating it like a plaything.

00:08The LNP's incensed after the government revealed it's rushing three pieces of legislation through

00:13Parliament with less than one hour of debate.

00:16We would have accepted urgency on these bills.

00:20What we cannot accept is that we're going to debate three bills in 40 minutes.

00:26That is ridiculous.

00:27The bills involved the creation of three new roles, a nightlife economy commissioner,

00:32a cross-border commissioner and a food farmers commissioner, which was a recommendation of

00:37the supermarket inquiry.

00:38These bills are not complicated in nature and establish the legislative framework for

00:45what has already been announced.

00:47We get this dumped on us one day with 24 hours to consider them and 40 minutes to debate

00:54three important pieces of legislation.

00:57That is the part that the opposition cannot agree to.

01:00With about six weeks to go until the official state election campaign begins, the temperature

01:05has ratcheted up, with both sides trying to make the most of the remaining sitting days,

01:11with the LNP today focusing on Labor's history with the CFMEU, while the government continued

01:17to attack the opposition leader.

01:18The ABC revealed last week the LNP leader paid $200,000 in a confidential settlement

01:26years after the collapse of the company.

01:28I was at the company for four months and I met my obligations during and after this period.

01:34Watching the argy-bargy was the newly minted independent Stephen Andrew.

01:39Told he wouldn't be re-endorsed by One Nation at the October election, he's quit the party.

01:45And for the remainder of the 57th parliament, the member will be representing the people

01:48of Murranny as an independent.

01:50It marks the first time in eight years One Nation hasn't had an MP in Queensland parliament.

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