Steve Hutchins (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I had the opportunity to receive a document from my colleague Senator Sterle here, and it was an excerpt from an article written by Matt Price. This is a description of what you might think would be a Queensland National Party MP:

… a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma swallowed by a joke covered in bananas sprinkled with peanuts dipped in ethanol.

It is unfair, because that does not describe a current Queensland National MP; it describes a former Queensland National MP, Bob Katter—but it could well describe most of them. I wanted to take note of Senator Coonan’s answer, because this afternoon Senator Ludwig asked a direct question of the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts in which he clearly mentioned Senator Barnaby Joyce. Where is Barnaby at the moment?