"Plate gate" is over.
Boxes of Australian-made plates purchased by Senator Nick Xenophon and fellow senator John Madigan have finally been accepted by parliament to replace a foreign product.
The two senators paid $11,000 out of their own pockets for the locally produced crockery after discovering plates in the Parliament House dining rooms were made in the United Arab Emirates.
The duo have lobbied since August to have their 750-piece set replace the foreign made crockery at no charge.
They had written to then-prime minister Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Senate president John Hogg and Speaker Bronwyn Bishop about the gift but no one would accept it.
But after the two senators vented their frustration to the media on Monday, the Department of Parliamentary Services accepted the gift to use in the members' and guests' dining room.
"Plate gate has reached a happy resolution," Senator Xenophon said.
"We'll be monitoring very closely, looking under the plates, to see that they're the 100 per cent Australian made ones and if they're not that will be even more of a scandal."
Senator Madigan said he was pleased to hear the Victorian government had approached the Australian manufacturers to give a quote for crockery to be used in the Victorian parliament.
