The Rudd Government announced yesterday that it was abandoning its newly scheduled Friday sittings of the House of Reps, pointing to the Coalition's disruptive behaviour which twice suspended the House on the only Friday it sat so far this year.
I'm quite sure that Nationals Member for Cowper, Luke Hartsuyker thought he was being rather smart as he followed the Coalition mob, defied the Deputy-Speaker and forced that final suspension.
What he was of course was very transparent. Aside from an obvious chance to grab a national headline, Canberra gossip has it that our Luke was really showing just how miffed he was at the thought of losing his chance to return home early each week for the traditional pollies' long weekend.
Now he and his friends have had their way (or their bluff called), I expect that this wilful pollie will turn up in the local media hypocritically bewailing the loss of a sitting day.
Don't bother to keep clacking your clogs on the issue, Luke mate - few will believe you.
I certainly don't and neither it seems does the ABC's Virginia Trioli.
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