‘Cross your legs’: MPs put on notice amid heated Queensland question time

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Opposition MP Ros Bates yelled the comment while Health Minister Shannon Fentiman was responding to a question about cancelled maternity services.

Opposition MP Ros Bates yelled ‘cross your legs’ while Health Minister Shannon Fentiman was speaking about maternity services during question time on Wednesday.Opposition MP Ros Bates has caused outrage after yelling “cross your legs” across state parliament while Health Minister Shannon Fentiman was responding to a question about cancelled maternity services.

The health minister and Premier Steven Miles seized on Bates’ comment in social media posts, accusing her of yelling “close your legs”. The official parliamentary Hansard quotes Bates as saying “cross your legs”.“This is disgraceful behaviour by the LNP’s Ros Bates,” Miles wrote on social media site X. “No woman should be treated like this in a workplace, or anywhere for that matter.”

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