Wow. Still recovering from that.

The chamber moves on to a dixer from Brian Mitchell who is retiring from federal politics and the seat of Lyons (Rebecca White has been preselected to run in his place and yesterday resigned from the Tasmanian state parliament to concentrate on her federal tilt).

Mitchell says “my last question in this place is to the minister for health” which is doing nothing to calm the farms of the the election speculation scarecrows.