Disorder in the house: Could fining MPs solve the problem?

By Stephanie Peatling
Updated October 15 2017 - 1:23am, first published 1:20am
Labor MPs hold up signs on school funding to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday 2 February 2016. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Labor MPs hold up signs on school funding to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday 2 February 2016. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Speaker Tony Smith at Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday 1 March 2017. Photo: Andrew Meares
Speaker Tony Smith at Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday 1 March 2017. Photo: Andrew Meares
Emma Husar celebrates not being ejected from question time at Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday 30 March 2017. Photo: Andrew Meares
Emma Husar celebrates not being ejected from question time at Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday 30 March 2017. Photo: Andrew Meares

There is often much hand-wringing and tut-tutting after a particularly rowdy question time.

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