Labor has used every dirty parliamentary trick in the book to try and make senate question time as unpleasant as possible (which is a big ask given how terrible it is in general) in response to David Pocock, the Greens and the Coalition changing the standing orders to have an additional five questions asked by non-government senators in QT. It adds about an extra half an hour to the proceedings, and is in response to the government’s failure to produce the Briggs report into public servant jobs being awarded to ‘Labor mates’ which Pocock and others have been trying to get for two years.
Labor have tried suspending standing orders during the non-government questions so it’s senator could ask a question, for no other reason then to drag it all out even further. Here is some of the reaction to that from Independent Senator David Pocock, Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young and Liberal Senator Jonathon Dunian as captured by Mike Bowers:
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He was terrific at rugby - took no prisoners. Now he's showing the same courage in politics. Certainly hope he's not reconsidering his life choices