"I will vote to block supply" - Andrew Wilkie

Andrew Wilkie, Independent MP, has announced he will vote to block supply and encouraged the parties in the senate to join him. Moving ever closer to a Lieberal election bloodbath.......

His speech is strongly worded and at times (for me) moving, when he described the distress this budget was causing disabled people:

Andrew Wilkie says the opposition and crossbench MPs should block the government's budget bills to show they are ''fair dinkum'' in opposing tough budget measures.

The independent MP has vowed to vote against the appropriation bills, telling the parliament overnight he could not wave the Abbott government's first budget through without major changes. Read more