Victorian MPs on notice after being ’suspended’ in parliament hundreds of times in 2018

Grubs, scabs, d--khead, “a pack of demented monks”— these are all insults hurled by Victorian MPs amid worsening behaviour in parliament.

Misbehaving state MPs who get booted from Question Time would be in the sin bin for longer in a crackdown to raise standards.

It comes as a Sunday Herald Sun review reveals MPs were ordered to leave the chamber hundreds of times last year.

Two politicians were kicked out more than 30 times.

Legislative Assembly speaker Colin Brooks, who is backing the overhaul, has said MP behaviour had slipped in recent years.

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Changes proposed in the lower house would force booted MPs to serve their suspension — typically an hour — during Question time.

State parliament’s question time has become unruly. Picture: Aaron Francis

They can serve it no matter what’s going on in the chamber under existing rules, even if it’s mundane matters they might not be there for anyway.

“Victorians deserve and expect better from their parliamentary representatives,’’ Mr Brooks told parliament last month.

Primary schoolchildren have been turned away from lower house question time amid worsening behaviour which has included politicians calling each other grubs, scabs, d--khead and “a pack of demented monks”.

One MP was accused of flipping the bird across the bench.

A Sunday Herald Sun analysis shows Liberal MPs Ryan Smith and Tim Smith topped the list of booted pollies.

In just 39 parliamentary sitting days they were last year turfed from the chamber 34 and 32 times respectively.

Ryan Smith — ejected from the chamber three times on September 5 alone — said he was merely holding Premier Daniel Andrews to account.

Warrandyte MP Ryan Smith was regular turfed from the chamber. Picture: Supplied

So too was Liberal Member for Kew, Tim Smith. Picture: Stuart McEvoy

“The Premier can be deliberately inflammatory at times and often fishes for a response but feigns indignation when he gets it,” he said.

“It is my job to stand up for my electorate and when the Premier says obvious untruths he needs to know there will be push back.”

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Tim Smith and Caulfield MP David Southwick were both “named”, resulting in a suspension for the remainder of the day with their pay docked and donated to charity.

Mr Southwick had refused to apologise for calling the Premier a “crook”.

MPs in the upper house were more subdued.

Liberal Bernie Finn and Labor’s Philip Dalidakis were most often turfed.

Mr Finn told the Sunday Herald Sun he wouldn’t stop being “outspoken”.

“If you don’t speak up in the chamber, you don’t speak up at all,” he said.

“That is our job, it is our job to stand up for our electorate.”

Newly-appointed Health Minister Jenny Mikakos was “named” for refusing to withdraw a comment that Liberal and Nationals MPs were racist, with her pay donated to Afri-Auscare Inc.

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