Question time in federal parliament

QUESTION TIME IN FEDERAL PARLIAMENT

WHAT WE LEARNED

* The government needs to find $20 million to secure energy supply for its planned naval shipbuilding program at Osborne in South Australia, Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne told MPs.

WHAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTED TO SPIN

If you want to blame anyone for rising power bills, blame state Labor governments and their decisions to ban gas exploration (Victoria) and develop resources only for the export market (Queensland).

WHAT LABOR WANTED TO TALK ABOUT

Why is the government persisting with its do-nothing approach to energy policy when electricity prices for the average NSW household are set to increase by about $340 a year?

THEY SAID WHAT?

"It was a glorious era, a golden age ... when he used to speak about David Gonski as though he was a secular saint." - Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull chides Bill Shorten about a change in the Labor leader's mind about needs-based schools funding.

"This is like the court of a Renaissance Pope - there's excommunications going left, right and centre." - The PM on Labor jettisoning support for the Gonski panel members.

"You! You!" - Labor MPs shout when the PM asks who will be next.

TWEETED

@terributlermp: Really don't think the PM thought enough about the potential answers to his question "Who is going to be purged next?"

@RealBobKatter: It's like coming into a lunatic asylum here: there don't seem to be many people aware that half our export earnings come from coal & iron ore.