Wilson at it again.
AAP
Outspoken Liberal MP Wilson Tuckey has been suspended from parliament for three sitting days for defying the Speaker.
Mr Tuckey was forced five times to withdraw remarks he made about Treasurer Wayne Swan.
The veteran MP had earlier interrupted Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner's answer to a question without notice by raising a point of order.
"The remarks of the minister for finance are an invitation to disorder and if wants us to talk about Wayne Swan running around with bags of money in Queensland and the disgrace that was delivered to him, well let him suspend standing orders and we'll get into the shonks," Mr Tuckey said.
When asked to withdraw, the MP said: "I will withdraw to let you get on with this shonky business."
After three more withdrawals Mr Tuckey was named by Speaker Harry Jenkins for defying the chair.
The government successfully moved that Mr Tuckey be suspended from the service of the House of Representatives for a period of three days, as it was his second offence this year.
The opposition failed in a bid to later silence Mr Tanner, prompting the minister to say: "Many, many years ago a colleague gave me a word of advice - when you throw a stone into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps gets hit."
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