Pauline Hanson SHRIEKS at rugby star turned MP David Pocock - giving him a rude ... trends now
Pauline Hanson has lit up the Senate by slamming rugby star turned politician David Pocock and giving him a rude and cruel new nickname.
In a speech expressing her fiery anger at the hasty passing of a new industrial relations bill on Tuesday night, the One Nation Senator shrieked at Mr Pocock.
'There's an article in the Sydney Morning Herald today, with Senator Pocock telling readers that he wrote 'DWYSYWD' in his rugby locker,' Ms Hanson said.
'It stands for: 'Do what you say you will do.' I'll repeat it: 'Do what you say you will do',' she said, her voice rising.
'That wasn't the case, was it? That hasn't happened. 'Doormat Dave's' word means nothing,' she roared.
Independent senator David Pocock is pictured in the Senate chamber at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday, November 28, 2022
At this point, with the Senate having been momentarily stunned into silence, Labor Senator Catryna Bilyk objected to Ms Hanson's name calling.
'Point of order,' she said. 'I think senators need to be referred to by their title, not by nicknames put upon them by other members of the Senate.'
James McGrath, the acting deputy president of the Senate agreed, saying 'Senator Hanson, please refer to colleagues by their correct title. Thank you.'
The interruption did not elicit an apology from Ms Hanson, nor did it dim her anger.
'My chief concern is that this bill is going to drive up costs for the small businesses which can least afford it,' she claimed.
'There's been no meaningful consultation with the small business sector.'
Before she was cut off for introducing the world to the name 'Doormat Dave', Ms Hanson set out what led her to come up with the nickname.
Ms Hanson said she hoped what she described as 'the really awful parts of the bill' - such as employer bargaining and the poor definition of small business - could have been dealt with separately.
'But, no, Labor had to had everything passed before Christmas and successfully gambled on pressuring a rookie crossbench senator into letting it happen.
'Senator Pocock was only saying a few days ago that much more time was needed to review this
