Rebel Labour MP Rachael Maskell has instructed Sky News she needed to look to her conscience when she determined to vote in opposition to the federal government’s welfare reforms.
She was talking after being suspended from the occasion for breaching occasion self-discipline. MPs Brian Leishman, Chris Hinchliff and Neil Duncan-Jordan had been additionally stripped of the occasion whip.
"The evidence was so strong that people were dying as a result of these changes," she instructed Jon Craig.
"We’ve got to protect people in our society, I believe that. I could not have on my conscience something where we know that people would take their own lives if they had insufficiency."
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