The new Senate sat for the first time on Tuesday of this week. Cohesion and unity were nowhere to be seen.
Senator Barnaby Joyce has been threatened with expulsion from the party and of treading a thin line between horse-trading and blackmail.

Nationals MP Bruce Scott gives us this analogy,

"Perhaps it’s a little bit about an early spring in Canberra, the young bulls are out there with some of the old bulls and they’re all looking around."

Independent MP Bob Katter offers this advice to Barnaby,

"He’s demonstrating to all of them what a bunch of cowards and idiots and lightweights they are. Two to the valley, son, because there ain’t anything that they can do. You hold all of the aces."

Senator Bill Heffernan, Liberal Senator seems to be aroused by it all as this statement suggests,

"Everyone knows I’m not a pansy and neither’s Barnaby, mate. That’s all part of the fun. Colour and movement you call that."

The Nationals’ leader, Mark Vaile, said outspokenness was tolerated until the crunch of the vote,

"when we expect, and want to see, the family stick together."

The bull-calf does not disappoint with,

"If anybody was to go into the Senate and to put out that they would never ever consider crossing the floor, then you’re basically useless, aren’t you?"

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