Barnaby Joyce (New England, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

Obviously, the issue we have is that there is no coalition. Just looking at it, if the Liberal Party have eight then obviously the crossbench will have to get eight, which means that the government will have to get 16. That's 32 questions. So what are we looking at? About 112 minutes. And with the condolence motions and everything else, that means question time is going for around two hours every day. And then, after that, you're going to have the MPI. You're starting to tie things up quite considerably.

The one thing you don't want to draw attention to is exactly what's happening. Staying here for two hours with the cameras focusing on what inevitably will be sorted out, but currently is a total fiasco, is probably not the best thing for the Australian people. It's a little bit of an indictment. I ask the coalition to just get it together and get us back to a normal parliament.

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