SM,

".... The problem is that every single speaker in the past has done pretty much the same..."

Lol!....where's yer evidence?

You just blather away these days.

Shadow,
All you are telling us from your posts is that the old sow has had her snout in the taxpayer trough for a long time. As a minister she was about the worse we ever had!

Quoting from The Age Editorial, given earlier:

"As the Speaker of the House of Representatives it is Mrs
Bishop's role to set an example of fairness and propriety
to her fellow members of Parliament and, to represent those
values to the community at large for the greater benefit of the
institution."

"Time and again Mrs Bishop has demonstrated she has little
regard for the important principle that the Speaker, while
normally selected by the governing party, should seek to act
impartially while in the position. According to the Parliamentary
website - "Members are entitled to expect that the Speaker
functions will be carried out impartially."

"In this regard Mrs Bishop's performance in the chair has been
poor. She has set a record for ejecting Opposition Members.
Her tally at last count stood at 400 (Labor) to 7 (Coalition)."

Her position is untenable.

cont'd ...

No other Speaker in the past Labor or Liberal
has behaved in such a biased manner to the
detriment of the Parliamentary image and the
role of the Speaker.

She will go down in history as an example of
unacceptable behaviour in the Speaker's Chair.
Unfortunately the damage has already been done and
the only way to save the disaster is to remove her
from this position so that further damage will not
occur.

"Her tally at last count stood at 400 (Labor) to 7 (Coalition)"

However it is largely the same members being ejected for the same un-Parliamentary behaviour.

The Labor Opposition has a goal of 'proving' something by having its members ejected.

The Public is awake to that.

The Labor Opposition is short on policies. The Public, referred to sneeringly by the ABC(!) and Labor as 'punters' - the ABC must have a lot of gamblers on its staff - have a lot of commonsense and can be trusted to remember at election time Labor's foolish time-wasting in the federal Parliament.

She is going to go...it's just a matter of when.

She managed to dig herself deeper into the hole during today's presser.

Regarding her role as Speaker - and the ridiculous anomalies that exist between her treatment of the govt and the Opposition.

One only has to watch her in action...

She regularly condones and even abets the govt in its efforts not to be relevant to the questions.

She regularly overlooks unparliamentary language - doesn't pull govt members into line for failing to address members opposite by their appropriate title - says nothing when they purposely abuse members opposite in an unarliamentary fashion...eg, "Electricity Bill" (merely one example).

I've lost count of the number of times she's dismissed points of order without listening to them...and many a time a point of order is raised because she has allowed govt speakers to run rampant.

She's booted members under 94A for raising legitimate points of order.

She consistently screws up member's titles or the gets confused as to what or whom she is calling.

She is an unmitigated disgrace in the role of Speaker.