MARATHON SENATE DEBATE - THE NOT SO SERIOUS
"If you still want to be here on Easter Friday, on Good Friday, that's fine."
- Special Minister of State Mathias Cormann.
"I'm not purporting this go for (63) hours ... It is true that I do have tickets to Madonna on Sunday night in Sydney and I hear she might be late so I might have more hours than I thought."
- Labor senator Sam Dastyari
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"I want to know if I'm going to jail or not."
- Independent Senator Jacqui Lambie asking if she'll be arrested for putting vote 1 on her how-to-vote cards.
"I've actually had one and I was wide awake so I really get this ... I didn't want to wake up with them doctors giving me a surprise."
- Labor senator Glenn Sterle on his colonoscopy.
"I have never seen a political glamour shot go well."
- Labor senator Jacinta Collins on the GQ magazine photo shoot of Greens leader Richard Di Natale.
"Well it wouldn't for you!"
Attorney-General George Brandis's rejoinder to Senator Collins.
"I fart in your general direction."
- Labor senator Doug Cameron, quoting Monty Python.
"The Greens have sold out their principles so they can get 12 green bums on red leather."
- Labor frontbencher Stephen Conroy.
