Foxy.
We can when those views are insulting to the Nation or when those views/utterances are personally insulting to another MP and are of a nature that only the lowest of the low would direct at another woman.

Don't know how much political debate you get into at election time Bazz, but on the streets it can be "interesting", meet some strange folks at times. Had a bloke once come up to me to say, regardless of who won the election Liberal or Labor he would be challenging the result in the High Court if he didn't win. He claimed both candidates were agents of a foreign power, and he alone had the evidence. And this guy was running as an independent, there's more, the guy was a nutter, but got about 200 votes.

Foxy, you want to hear my views ? I have put them out here often.
But to clarify, I am skeptical about the CO2 caused global warming.
Reason, J Kauppenin and others have shown that the well known cycle of
global warming & cooling had the coldest period, the "Little Ice Age"
coincide with the start of the industrial revolution and the start
in fossil fuel burning.
Kauppenin believes that the higher temperatures were blamed totally
on co2 burning and that the current rise due to co2 burning is 0.1C.
The rest is due to the sun.
I should remind you that Kauppenin was an IPPC panel member until retirement.
History, Roman, Viking, European such as the abandonment of the
Ice Festivals on the Thames in 1814 after the Maunder minimum.
Problem is for us the temperature is not expected to start falling
for about 100 years. The cycle is between 600 and 1000 years long.

It is now realised that wind and solar cannot do the job at a cost we can pay.
Britain & Germany have found this out at great expense.
Britain is resurrecting coal fired stations I have heard and Germany
is building a new one or two. They have lost faith in North Sea wind.
The European wind drought has put the wind up those governments.

Paul, I do not get into much political discussion, mostly on here &
a little around here. Some are happy to hear other opinions.
There are always ratbags such as you mentioned, but the public is
never fooled by them hence 200 votes by donkey voters.

Bazz, the problem is that it is commonplace to think that fossil fuels can be reliably and economically replaced with renewables. It is also commonplace to think nuclear energy prohibitively expensive and dangerous. Germany is about to close three more nuclear power plants.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20211231-germany-to-close-nuclear-reactors-despite-energy-crisis

Hopefully the ensuing mess in Europe will make people think a little differently about renewable energy before we go much further down the renewable path in Australia.

Dear Bazz,

I've always admired your civility on this forum.
Thank You for taking the time and effort to
share your views with us. We may not always
agree but it is always good to hear another
point of view, especially when it is well
reasoned and argued.