@poirot,

Isn't it too early for the westies to be up?

<<You're not allowed to call people liars on this forum>>

really?

So you and your confederates have could NOT have been calling Tony Abbott a liar (& worse) for the last twelve months or more--I must have misread your posts,right?

What I find amusing is the left whingers predilection for self congratulation. After delivering a budget reply with no commentary other than he didn't like it, taking a bow, shaking a few hands and sitting down to continue parliamentary business is what is expected.

A lap around the building shaking everyone's hands and chatting is a waste of time, and Pyne as leader of house is responsible for parliamentary business, and while labor would like to endlessly continue celebrating yet another vacuous and pretentious monologue, Pyne has every right to call the parliament back to business. BB can override him, or not as she choses.

The delusional Steele sees his betters as holding begging cups in case anyone is wondering how he comes up with such a stupid post.
When it is pointed out to him that he has made a fool of himself, his answer is tink, or sometimes a sandwich board. No wonder he is referred to as Witless. He objects to Tony Abbott talking to the minor parties. Abbott said he would not do a deal for minority government, and Witless takes that as a prohibition on carrying on the business of parliament if it involves talking to minor parties. He must be as dense as the jaw-flapping 579, to believe that.

The Australian today revealed the incoming Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party senator plans to vote against the repeal bills unless the Abbott government supports the Automotive Transformation Scheme, which is slated for abolition in January 2018.

Mr Muir may be supported in his stance by independent senator Nick Xenophon and Democratic Labour Party senator John Madigan — with the bloc potentially deciding the outcome of the vote.

The Prime Minister, asked about The Australian’s report, repeated his party’s position that the scheme would remain in place for “the next five years”.

“The Automotive Transformation Scheme is in place; it was confirmed in the budget,” Mr Abbott said in Sydney.

“There’s $1 billion available to manufacturers and to the auto parts industry over the next five years, so the Automotive Transformation Scheme remains in place.”

The May budget stripped $618.5 million from the Automotive Transformation Scheme over eight years, following announcements by major carmakers to cease manufacturing in Australia by the end of 2017.

SPQROLFMAO,

I wondered who'd pick that up.

"So you and your confederates have could NOT have been calling Tony Abbott a liar (& worse) for the last twelve months or more--I must have misread your posts,right?"

To clarify my meaning.

Posters are prohibited from referring to fellow posters on OLO as liars.

Graham's aiming for Parliamentary conduct on this forum.

So, yes, Tony Abbott (who does not post on this forum) is a liar.

SM,

"... Pyne has every right to call the parliament back to business. BB can override him, or not as she choses."

Lol!...they're a great team. Bronnie is wonderful at lacking any pretence of bipartisanship - and if she's ever tardy, Pyne is always at the ready with a whine, a signal or a rhetorical shove to bring her up to speed.

Bronwyn Bishop is an excellent Speaker who knows her job, and carries it out in a meticulous manner.

The members of the Labor rabble aggressively and knowingly treat the rules and their obligations to the Chair with contempt and an impartial and bipartisan Chair is obliged to do her job, and bring them to account. The rabble require a firm, no-nonsense approach to their disgraceful conduct, and we are fortunate to have a woman of Bronwyn.s character performing this challenging task, eh, Poirot?