'Dog noises', 'growling', 'boofhead': bad behaviour in parliament as Jenkins review launched

'Dog noises' and 'growling' have been heard in the Senate after Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie spoke about social housing. Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young alerted the Senate president to the interjection, arguing that making ‘growling and dog noises’ while a female senator is on her feet is not consistent with achieving ‘change from the top’, on the day the Jenkins report into parliamentary workplace culture was released. In the House of Representatives, opposition leader Anthony Albanese told Peter Dutton to ‘sit down boofhead’. Speaker Andrew Wallace warned the parliament ‘the Australian public does not want to see this place descend into a political coliseum’ and cited the Jenkins report's focus on respect

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