Federal Labor MP Craig Thomson is in hospital in Canberra suffering abdominal pains.
A spokesman for Mr Thomson told AAP the NSW MP took himself to Canberra Hospital on Wednesday and is waiting for a diagnosis from a doctor.
He has had the pains since Tuesday.
The opposition is understood to have granted a parliamentary pair for Wednesday’s sitting.
Mr Thomson is the subject of a Fair Work Australia investigation into his alleged misuse of a credit card when he was Health Services Union general secretary between 2002 and 2007.
Later, Labor’s chief government whip Joel Fitzgibbon tweeted Mr Thomson may have appendicitis.
“Looks like Craig Thomson has appendicitis,” he wrote on the social networking site.
“(It) may have to come out but he’s fine.”
Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Mr Thomson will likely be back at work in “a day or two”.
She thanked the opposition for honouring the long-standing convention of providing a parliamentary pair if an MP needs medical attention.
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