Well, hypocrisy, thy name is Senator McKenzie. This is hot hypocrisy that is so disconnected from the real world and real people and so large and unfathomable that it takes the oxygen out of the room.

The first basket of hypocrisy here, of course, is Senator McKenzie herself. Her own record in this area was described recently by a journalist with these words: 'the stench of corruption remains'. Yet she is in here with this kind of behaviour.