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突发新闻：新南威尔士州政府提前关闭了议会，工党表示这可能会阻止对自由党丑闻的调查。
The NSW government says any inquiries including one into alleged branch-stacking involving a brother of Premier Dominic Perrottet can continue despite parliament being shut down from Monday.
新南威尔士州政府表示，尽管议会从周一开始被关闭，但任何调查，包括一项涉及州长Dominic Perrottet的调查，仍将继续进行。
Labor seized on a notice published in the government gazette on Thursday that said the state’s upper house would be prorogued, meaning shut down, from Monday.
工党周四看到政府公报，该公报通知，新州上议院将在周一解散，这意味着议会将被关闭。
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NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet: A spokesperson for the premier said proroguing the parliament was a normal process before elections.CREDIT:
新南威尔士州州长Dominic Perrottet：州长的一位发言人表示，在选举前解散议会是一个正常程序。
The government insisted it was procedural after Labor raised concerns the move could stop further inquiries into missing Liberal Party operatives or its final report into the John Barilaro trade scandal.
在工党提出有关此举可能会阻止对失踪的自由党活动家的进一步调查或对约翰·巴里拉罗交易丑闻的最终报告的担忧之后，政府坚称这是例行程序。
A spokesperson for the premier said proroguing the parliament was an entirely normal process that occurs before every election and that the timing was comparable with previous general elections.
州长的一位发言人表示，解散议会是一项完全正常的程序，每次选举之前都会进行，而这次的时间与以往的大选相当。
“Labor are focused on political games and should be ashamed of the lies and scare tactics they are undertaking,” he said.
他说：“工党关注政治游戏，应该为他们正在进行的谎言和恐吓手段感到羞耻。”
“Upper house committees will continue to conduct their business up until the constitutionally mandated dissolution of the Legislative Assembly on March 3. The government is not in caretaker until March 3 and Labor should correct the record.”
“上议院委员会将继续开展业务，直到3月3日立法会的宪法规定解散。政府直到3月3日才进入看守政府状态，工党应该更正记录。”
When Labor prorogued parliament ahead of the 2011 election, then opposition leader Barry O’Farrell described it as a denial of democracy. The move was hugely controversial and Coalition governments have since not prorogued until closer to election day.
在2011年选举前，工党解散议会时，当时的反对党领袖Barry O’Farrell将其描述为对民主的否定。这一举动引起了巨大的争议，自那以后联盟政府就没有再解散议会，直到接近选举日。
Retiring transport minister David Elliott told 2GB’s Chris O’Keefe on Thursday afternoon that he had not been briefed on parliament shutting down but said, “[former Labor premier] Kristina Keneally did it to get some barnacles off her government”.
退休的交通部长David Elliott在周四下午告诉2GB的Chris O’Keefe，他没有接到议会关闭的简报，但说：“[前工党首相] Kristina Keneally这样做是为了让她的政府脱离一些困境。”
Prior to the 2019 NSW election, the parliament was prorogued from February 25, 2019, while Keneally prorogued the parliament on December 22, 2010, more than three months before the election in 2011. Upper House committees continued to sit after this date.
在2019年新南威尔士州选举之前，议会于2019年2月25日被解散，而Keneally在2010年12月22日就解散了议会，比2011年的选举提前了三个多月。在此日期之后，上议院委员会仍然继续运作
Ahead of the premier’s statement, Labor leader in the upper house Penny Sharpe told O’Keefe that the government needed to provide clarity on the effect of the gazette.
在州长发表声明之前，上议院的工党领袖Penny Sharpe告诉O’Keefe，政府需要对该公报的影响提供明确的说明。
“This has come out of left field, we were not anticipating this, there are still some questions we need answered and I think the government needs to provide some clarity,” Sharpe said. “This is important because there is a lot of work still to happen in the next seven days.”
Sharpe表示：“这突如其来，我们没有预料到，我们仍然需要回答一些问题，我认为政府需要提供一些明确性。”“这很重要，因为在接下来的七天中还有很多工作要做。”
