Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has failed to have parliament censure Immigration Minister Peter Dutton over comments he made about an asylum seeker baby.
Mr Wilkie won almost no support to suspend parliament today to criticise Mr Dutton for implying that "baby Asha was deliberately harmed" so that she would be brought from Nauru to Australia for treatment.
Labor refused to support the move, saying it was vital to get the facts correct in such a sensitive debate.
Opposition immigration spokesman Richard Marles doesn't believe Mr Dutton implied what he was accused of.
"It seeks to suggest that the minister said something that he just didn't," he said.
