Fed: Question time peace lasts only 43 minutes
There's been a short-lived attempt to improve standards in federal parliament.
Speaker NEIL ANDREW has been on a quest to make question time less combative and moreinformative.
But it lasted exactly 43 minutes today.
Mr ANDREW has confirmed that he spoke to government business manager TONY ABBOTT andhis Labor counterpart WAYNE SWAN during the winter break to discuss improved standards.
For nine questions and 43 minutes of question time today, Mr ANDREW appeared to have triumphed.
Then Mr ABBOTT used a question from a Liberal colleague to attack Labor's union links,and Australian Workers Union boss BILL LUDWIG.
His comments sparked a flurry of Labor interjections and calls for Mr ANDREW to take action.
He said while Mr ABBOTT'S language was somewhat provocative, there was little he coulddo under parliamentary rules.
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KEYWORD: QUESTIONS (CANBERRA)
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