Dear Ms. B. Bishop,
I have been watching the new parliament. I feel the need to point out that the persons to your left were elected by Australian voters to speak for their respective constituents. Your obvious bias towards the persons to your right is a shameful affront to the dignity of the Australian parliamentary process.

Sitting there in smirking compliance to the LNP, is conduct utterly inappropriate for a speaker, you seem to not understand that you are no longer a toadying backbencher. When you assumed the privileged seat of speaker it became your duty to fairly and impartially represent all Australians.
When you dismiss and silence the voices to your left, you are dismissing and silencing the millions of Australians they have been elected to represent.

For the sake of Australian democracy I ask that you resign immediately as speaker. Your conduct is an utter disgrace to Australia and the parliament. Every moment you sit in that chair, you preside over the destruction of the once proud democratic process of my country.
Sincerely,
An Australian Voter.

"....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?"

Why yes, certainly, Leo Lane.

Who but a rabid leftie would see anything amiss with Bronnie tossing out around just under 150 Labor Members to 2 LNP Members.

It makes you wonder why an Opposition is allowed to sit in Parliament at all?

There are a few countries past and present around the world who maintain Oppositions are a pain in the arse - and they dispense with them altogether.

You in favour of that sort of thing then?

Bit of a shame Australia still calls itself a democracy,eh?.... but then Bronnie is doing her best to stymie the fundamentals.

Dear Poirot,

The clip I posted earlier didn't show the reaction of the speaker to Pyne's C-bomb. I had assumed Bishop had not heard it but in fact she most certainly had. Her response? “The minister will refer to people by their correct names”.

There is absolutely no way this was an appropiriate rebuke. Either 94A him, or cite him for unparliamentary language, or at the bare minimum ask him to withdraw the remark.

Oh boy she is a real shocker!

http://youtu.be/5TsNL3uBw1g

Dear 579,

Hear, hear. While I'm not sure the ratios of government to opposition 94A's were that much different in the last parliament this level of criticism about the speaker's impartiality has gone way beyond anything in my memory. I think we would forgive an initial bout of latent partisanship impacting her rulings but Bishop certainly seems to be getting markedly worse rather than better.

Dear Leo,

I had forgotten about the cup. That was a very funny exchange. But you shouldn't take these things to heart mate, all done in jest and good humour.

On this occasion the 'tink' I was referencing was the sound of your little tricycle’s bell, one that you should take care you don't wear out.

SR,

You left whingers are such frauds. When you can't hear what is said, you insert whatever you like. I heard --ub so what was the c word "club"?

Really! You guys are disgusting, like little school children.

SteeleRedux,

Have you listened to or watched Question Time lately?

Speaker Bishop spends 99% of the time warning Labor. She even tosses in a General Warning occasionally so she can chuck 'em out without further ado.

While frivolous points of order do happen, she often dismisses them even before anything is uttered by the Member making the Point of Order.

She regularly threatens Members making Points of Order before they have spoken a word. Last week she threatened to remove a Labor Member under 94A before he had spoken on his Point of Order if his question was deemed an abuse of Standing Orders by herself.

The other 1% of her time is spent ballsing up the titles of Members and their electorates or calling the wrong Members to stand.

SM,

"Really! You guys are disgusting, like little school children."

Well, LOL!...yer don't like it when others are capable of articulating the odium of this govt.

So be it.

If Bronwyn Bishop's record as Speaker were a cricket innings, you might say the batting team was having a pretty good day.

Madam Speaker made headlines this week when she ejected her first Coalition MP - but not before bringing up her ton of sin-binned Labor MPs.

Play resumes on Monday with the score at 2-107.

Federal Parliament is not cricket - but the score is being kept.
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On Tuesday the 71-year-old member for Mackellar - ''God's own country'', according to her website - sent the Member for Herbert, Ewen Jones, to the naughty corner under standing order 94(a) for yelling at Opposition Leader Bill Shorten. And she sin-binned Jones again on Thursday.

That makes two for the Coalition. She reached the century on ejecting Labor MPs in mid-May.

''If you had 100 members you'd be in government and sitting on this side. You simply have some recurrent offenders,'' Bishop replied when the manager of opposition business in the house, Tony Burke, rose to acknowledge the century.