Victoria's disgraced ex-deputy speaker Don Nardella has been called a "dirty rotten liar" in a heated question time that resulted in a Liberal MP being booted from parliament without pay.
Mr Nardella has been on the crossbenches ever since he was forced out of the parliamentary Labor Party for claiming nearly $100,000 in allowances intended to help country MPs maintain a second residence in the city.
He made his question time debut as an independent on Wednesday.
But his attempts to ask questions of Education Minister James Merlino were drowned out by objections from the opposition.
"It's bad enough to sit here listening to this dirty rotten liar...this is an absolute disgrace," Liberal MP Brian Paynter told parliament.
He then gave the new Speaker, Colin Brooks, an ultimatum - kick him out, or Mr Nardella.
Mr Paynter was eventually booted from parliament for the rest of this sitting week.
"You're ejecting the wrong man," Opposition Leader Matthew Guy said.
A parliamentary audit found Mr Nardella, who has a Melbourne electorate, had been claiming the second residence allowance since 2010, first for living in country Ballarat then in a seaside town, Ocean Grove.
The allowance is designed to help country MPs maintain a second home in the city for when parliament sits.
But the audit found gaping holes in the rules that allowed former Speaker Telmo Languiller and Mr Nardella to claim the perk.
Mr Languiller has repaid the $38,000 he claimed to live in the seaside town of Queenscliff instead of his western Melbourne electorate of Tarneit for most of 2016.
He returned to work on Tuesday having been on sick leave since the scandal broke.
The opposition continues to heap pressure on Mr Andrews to reveal the repayment arrangements for Mr Nardella - something the premier says he is not privy to.
Shadow treasurer Michael O'Brien told parliament he believed Mr Nardella and Mr Andrews had done a "dirty deal" to only repay the Ocean Grove funds so that he does not leave parliament and cause a by-election.
"If there is a by-election in Melton I feel very confident in saying the Labor Party would lose it. And if Labor loses that by-election the premier would be gone within a week because we know the jackals...are waiting for him to stumble," Mr O'Brien said.
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