Why parliament still tolerates thuggery not acceptable in broader society | Katharine Murphy

LNP Senator Barry O’Sullivan blew the lid off with a comment he made about the Greens’ Sarah Hanson-Young

In the Senate, they pride themselves on doing things their own way, and so it was on Wednesday morning when the occupants of the red chamber gathered, soberly, to take themselves in hand.

The evening before, the lid had blown right off. Queensland LNP Senator Barry O’Sullivan noted in passing that Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young had “a bit of Nick Xenophon in her”.

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