On Thursday 23
August 2018 Kevin
Hogan MP for Page announced that; “This constant rotation of Prime Ministers by both the
Labor Party and the Liberal party, I cannot condone. I am announcing today,
that if there is another leadership spill for the position of Prime Minister
prior to the next Federal election, I will remove myself from the government
benches and sit on the cross benches.”
A second leadership
spill occurred on Friday 24 August 2018 and parliament went into recess.
Kevin Hogan
was nowhere near the cross benches when the Australian Parliament resumed on
Monday 10 September 2018.
He is still a fully-fledged member of the Parliamentary National Party.
Still a National
Party Whip.
Still Deputy
Speaker in the House of Representatives.
This was Kevin
Hogan on the morning of 10 September firmly ensconced in the Speaker’s Chair.
At 12:15 on the same day Hansard shows that Kevin Hogan voted as a Nationals MP against a motion by the Labor Opposition.
Hogan's official statement included an undertaking that he was going to be an independent in a similar style to former MP for O'Connor Tony Crook*.
However Tony Crook's parliamentary entry looks like this....
and Hogan's looks like this.....
Not even a pretence of the announced independence on Hogan's part.
NOTE
* Tony Crook was elected as a WA National Party candidate in August 2010 but sat as an Independent MP for less than three years before retiring prior to the September 2013 federal election. He never sat in the Coalition party room and apparently only attended the Nationals party room for a brief period towards the end of his parliamentary career.
Crook voted with the Gillard minority government on numerous occasions.
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