Vic MP not to blame for push: speaker Independent MP Geoff Shaw bears no blame for an incident in which he pushed over a protester, the speaker of the Victorian parliament says. Taxi owner John Zammit received a cut face after he was apparently pushed over by Mr Shaw on the steps of parliament on Tuesday. New video shows a female protester tugging at Mr Shaw's arm as he walks along the footpath near parliament before others join in and appear to surround the MP. Mr Zammit appears to grab Mr Shaw's arm, holding on to him as the MP walks away, before running up the stairs to again confront him. It is then that he is pushed over. Speaker Ken Smith says Mr Shaw cannot be blamed for the incident. "If you've seen the video, you would understand that there was nothing there he could be blamed for," he told ABC Radio. He just wanted to walk on. He wanted to get inside to go in for question time. Mr Shaw was not in parliament on Wednesday, with Mr Smith saying the MP had visited his doctor and was expected to return on Thursday. "He's under an amount of pressure, you can understand, particularly with what occurred to him yesterday, I think he is probably in need of a day off," Mr Smith told reporters. He said it was up to Mr Shaw whether he chose to pursue contempt of parliament charges against the protesters for impeding an MP trying to enter parliament. Mr Zammit admitted provoking Mr Shaw, but said the MP provoked them first. He rejected a claim by Mr Shaw that he spat at him. "I'm not that kind of person," Mr Zammit told Fairfax Radio. Mr Zammit stood by his version of events after the release of the new video. Mr Shaw said he was "heckled, yelled at, spat upon and hit by a large group of protesters" and was forced to push a protester out of the way. Before the CCTV video was released, Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews had called for Mr Shaw, who resigned from the parliamentary Liberal Party in March, to be expelled from the party. Premier Denis Napthine said expelling Mr Shaw was not a matter for him. "Mr Shaw is not a member of the parliamentary Liberal Party ... and I've made it clear I don't see any circumstances where he would return as a member of the parliamentary Liberal Party," he told reporters. Dr Napthine described the incident as "ugly." Police Chief Commissioner Ken Lay said officers need to speak to witnesses and examine video of the incident, to determine what happened and whether charges should be laid. Mr Shaw is already facing charges for allegedly misusing his taxpayer-funded vehicle and parliamentary fuel card, but the case is still going through the courts.