Scott Morrison says MPs voting on legislation must be in Canberra, but options for video conferencing could be considered.

But he warned that plans for virtual participation were not yet in place and would be limited.
“One of the points that the Leader of the Opposition and I very much agree on, and that is that if you’re voting in the Parliament, then you’ve got to be here,” he said.
“We can’t have a situation where people are sort of phoning in votes. You can have no confidence that you haven’t got 14 people standing next to them when they make those votes.
“That’s not on, that’s not how the democracy works.”
Mr Morrison said he understood the frustration of MPs who will have to be away from their families for a full month.
“If I had to be isolated for whatever reason, I would hope to participate in question time and to be able to do that, if I had to do it remotely, fine,” he said.
NSW-based MPs won’t have to self-isolate unless the ACT declares parts of the state COVID-19 hotspots.
“I’m pleased that the advice has been that there’s an option to do that quarantine in Victoria before heading up to Canberra,” Mr Morrison said. “But that also has some strict arrangements around it and I’m sure that will be adhered to.”
Labor frontbencher Katy Gallagher said Queensland MPs would be required to self-isolate on return to the sunshine state, after Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk declared Canberra a COVID-19 hotspot, despite there being no active cases in Canberra.
Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer Mr Kelly said return rules were a matter for his Queensland counterpart and the state government.
Detailed planning for virtual sittings has already taken place.
Officials at Parliament began working on contingency plans in March, potentially allowing members to debate and legislate via video conferencing from their electorates.
Public servants sought detailed briefings from the British Parliament, which adopted a hybrid model earlier in the pandemic to allow questions and statements to be delivered by MPs both in person and through video conferencing platform Zoom.
Labor Party national president Wayne Swan announced on Friday that the ALP national conference, set for Canberra in December, would be deferred due to the pandemic.
The move will delay or deny Mr Albanese a set-piece opportunity to make Labor’s case to the party faithful and voters at large, ahead of a possible election in 2021.
Mr Swan said policy development would continue but holding the conference was “simply not practical” this year.