Queensland parliament live: E-bike laws to be introduced; Katter wants abortion back on agenda

Queensland parliament has resoundingly shot down a Katter’s Australian Party bid to stop an amendment it claimed would boost access to pregnancy-ending drugs.

All members of parliament sitting on Tuesday, outside Katter’s party, voted against the disallowance motion.

Leader Robbie Katter brought the motion to parliament to prevent a tweak to Queensland’s Medicines and Poisons Act that he said would expand access to the pregnancy termination drug MS-2 Step.

“We stand for pro-life, and we’ll continue to do that, and we feel this disallowance motion is one of those things – it’s just that continual encroachment, that incremental creep, on these values that will continue to happen. There’s no finish line on this stuff,” he said.