This “waste of taxpayer money” theme that the Libs are running relentlessly at the moment is getting ridiculous. Brendan Nelson has highlighted the amount of taxpayer money spent on having Parliament sit for a day to accuse Kevin Rudd of wasting it by not attending (even though he’s under no real obligation to, as opposed to Alexander’s obligation to attend Question Time.)

Australians are going to spend a million dollars today having the Parliament here… A million dollars is going to spent by hard-working Australian taxpayers, yet we get no Question Time and I think there’s a few questions to be answered.

And here’s how Nelson’s MPs spend a million dollars of taxpayer money.

The first Friday sitting of federal Parliament has led to such chaos that the Speaker suspended the proceedings for a 15-minute cooling off period.

The row erupted when Liberal MP Steve Ciobo moved that there should be a Question Time every Friday, despite the Government’s rules that there will be no Question Times and no divisions taken on Fridays.

It led to the Coalition moving a motion of dissent against House of Representatives speaker Harry Jenkins.

Eventually, Mr Jenkins took the rare step of having him escorted out.

“Because of the gross disorderly conduct of the Member, I ask the sergeant to remove the Member,” Mr Jenkins said.

Mr Jenkins ordered Mr Ciobo out of the chamber for an hour, and later suspended Parliament for 15 minutes.

What a pack of jokers this Liberal mob are.

UPDATE (1.45pm): Can they get any more childish? Of course they can.

There have been chaotic scenes in the House of Representatives, with Opposition MPs brandishing a cardboard cut-out of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and demanding that the real Mr Rudd show his face.

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Deputy speaker Anna Burke ordered the cardboard figure be removed amid shouts of “we want the Prime Minister here”.