by the board.

She acts like a school ma’am and usually when she does a remove a Member she give a sly smile to Pyne or Abbott.

The Manager of Opposition Business in the House of Representatives is Tony Burke, a mild mannered former minister whose understanding of the Standing Orders is second to none. When he does object, he is told to sit down in her most imperious and arrogant manner.

Burke has been critical of Bishop her role from day one, when she determined it was acceptable to call Opposition Leader Bill Shorten “Electricity Bill”.

The fact is, Bishop doesn’t want to be the umpire, she wants to be a participant.

She even dismisses points of order without hearing them.

A measure of her misunderstanding of her role is that she continuesto attend party meetings, making her an active participant in Government business.

Before she entered the House of Representatives, Bishop was a Senator, where she outraged Gareth Evans, who said she should be strangled with her own scarf.

He is also reported to have said it is easier to hate her at first meeting — it saves time later!

When she was Opposition health spokesperson under the ridiculous Alexander Downer, she amazed people in her own party by announcing her support for the tobacco industry.

She was dropped from health and moved to ‘privatization and Commonwealth and State relations’.

But all that paled into insignificance when she became Minister for Aged in the Howard Government care and was embroiled in her greatest scandal.

The revelation that some residents at Melbourne’s riverside nursing home had