FED:We'll renovate Labor tradition: Gillard

AAP General News (Australia)
08-31-2010
FED:We'll renovate Labor tradition: Gillard

Ms Gillard said she had given the three key independents Bob Katter, Tony Windsor and
Rob Oakeshott a political reform paper flagging Labor's intended reforms.

The paper centred on parliamentary reforms, campaign financing and electoral reform
but there were obvious items that could be changed.

"I think we can agree on an immediate set of reforms that would make a difference to
private members business, private members bills, the operation of question time, the way
the parliament works and then there are a set of longer term reforms.

"We would need an inclusive process to keep driving forward so I am optimistic about this."

The prime minister said leader of the House of Representatives Anthony Albanese had
made valiant efforts in extending private members' business which were made impossible
by "the other side's" antics.

A push for electoral reforms by Labor had been stymied in the senate, Ms Gillard said.

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