Some call it muck-up day, others say it's end of term day.
Whatever it's called, a last day of parliament before a big break is usually ratty.
As was Thursday, parliament's last day before a six-week break with, on the first day back, the budget.
Of course it's not really a holiday. MPs can look forward to plenty of committee work and all those lovely constituency rubber chicken lunches.
And, on Saturday, there's the NSW election - which Labor is promoting as make or break for Tony Abbott.
The two sides warmed up in the 30 minutes before question time which is given over to backbenchers' 90-second statements, a period usually rich in parochial pleading.
This one was all about the election, with each side wildly exaggerating the sins of the other. MPs from other states must have wondered why they bothered turning up.
However when questions started, Bill Shorten led off on Tony Abbott's remark that a debt to GDP ratio of 50-60 per cent was pretty good. For no obvious reason, except to give his own mob a bit of a laugh, he went all coy and smart aleck about it - did Abbott know who said this in the PM's courtyard?
Abbott replied that under Labor policies the ratio would be 120 per cent.
Shorten repeated the question, with the added provocation of "Why can't he ever tell the truth".
Abbott replied that Labor didn't have the decency or courage to address the budget mess.
Shorten changed his target slightly, saying the people of NSW deserved to know what Abbott's "chaotically incompetent" (his new favourite phrase) government was doing about how GST money is distributed.
Abbott went back to one his favourite lines, that Shorten's only budget idea was to steal inactive bank accounts. Raid the cookie jar, grab the piggy bank, he chided.
The noise, meanwhile, was rising. Abbott's words were often lost in hubbub and two Labor MPs were turfed out.
Shorten tried a new way to make trouble, linking the election with Abbott's leadership worries. Why did NSW people, he asked, prefer Malcolm Turnbull's robocalls to real ones by the PM. Bronwyn Bishop ruled it out of order.
So Shorten, though question time was barely half an hour old, went back to another old tactic, moving to suspend standing orders so he could move to condemn the "chaotic and incompetent" government.
Christopher Pyne was having none of this. He gagged and gagged and eventually, after four divisions and scarcely another word spoken, Shorten's move met its inevitable end.
Although there was still time for more, Abbott immediately ended the session because "the opposition has clearly run out of questions".
So the PM, as usual, had the last word - at least until the people of NSW vote.
Meanwhile, everyone can gratefully go home.
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