Push to see mobile phones banned from Question Time

An inquiry into reforming federal parliament's question time has heard calls for mobile phones to be banned.

Hughes MP Craig Kelly (R) shares something on his phone with Tangney MP Dennis Jensen during Question Time. Source: AAP

If you tune in to federal parliament's daily question time ritual during sitting weeks you are more likely to see many elected members buried in their mobile phone rather than intently listening to an answer from a minister.

In an inquiry into reforming question time, two Labor MPs - Peta Murphy and Kate Thwaites - are calling for mobile phones to be banned.

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