The Nationals MP for Cowper, Luke Hartsuyker, attempted a clumsy piece of political theatre yesterday afternoon.
He rose to his feet and requested that the House consider a urgent motion to debate government policy on petrol pricing.
This appears to have been little more than an attempt to disrupt the order of government speakers.
After all, in his first term and as part of the former Howard Government, he did little but ask dorothy-dixers of his own ministers.
But what made this a quirky moment was the fact that, at the time he was being predicably gagged, the online news services were reporting that petrol prices at the pump were continuing to fall. With further falls predicted on the back of a strengthening Aussie dollar.
Rather bad timing eh, Luke.
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