Reported at www.theguardian.com: Peter Dutton has supported a motion by Pauline Hanson for a parliamentary inquiry into healthcare for transgender children, highlighting it as a “conscience vote” despite his earlier directive to avoid culture war topics.

The motion failed with a vote of 21 to 36, as many Coalition senators sided with Labor against it.

Dutton also defended a controversial attempt to gag Attorney General Mark Dreyfus while he discussed antisemitism, prompting significant backlash from opposition members.