Teal MP's speech leaves Chris O'Keefe questioning why they have voters 05:54

Well, it's pretty rich, I think, to see the Teal MPs, you know, the Teals. They're making a big fuss about workplace culture in Parliament House at the moment. Big, big fuss. And I think it's rich of them because they've got their own skeletons in the closet, the Teals. And the recent uproar over alleged misogyny, if you missed it, yeah. Coalition MPs have been called misogynist by the Teals.

Because of what is being said during question time and more broadly the robust political debate we have in this country. Well, it has sparked a wave of indignation from the Teals. And the Teals love nothing more than indignation.

We pride ourselves on providing an opportunity for everyone to be heard. That's not happening. You just don't need that level of aggression, that level of misogyny, that level of just abuse hurled at you consistently for an hour and a half a day when you're in your workplace. So that's Kylie Atink. She's the member for North Sydney and an independent as part of the Teals.

And what she's talking about that is question time is without question very unedifying, but misogynistic it is not. Look, it's hard to overlook the glaring inconsistency in the Teal stance here. So you've got Zali Steggall, Kylie Hattink, Sophie Skomps, Kate Chaney. Have they looked over at Dr. Monique Ryan and asked, Hey Monique.

Can we address your alleged workplace behaviour? Because let's rewind. Earlier this year, remember that? Monique Ryan, member for Kooyong, one of the high-profile TLMPs, was ordered by the Federal Court to pay $100,000 to her former staff member, Sally Rugg, as part of a settlement. Now, the case was centred around a breach of the Fair Work Act, or alleged breach anyway. It wasn't a minor affair.

It was a significant settlement that drew a lot of media attention with Sally Rugg alleging she was treated poorly in the workplace by Monique Ryan. Ryan's office was accused of, by Rugg, of mishandling workplace issues in a way that contradicted the very standards and fairness and respect the Teals are now championing. And it is just absurd to me because supposedly, according to Teals,

Stegall and Tink and Skomps and Cheney, interjections and raucousness in question time is now labelled misogyny. Seriously, the same deals like Zali Stegall, who called Peter Dutton a racist. They are all terrorists, that they should all be mistrusted and not worthy, that they are not worthy of humanitarian aid.

Order. The Leader of the Opposition will cease to objecting. We heard you in silence. You can hear me in silence. Order. Stop being racist. The Leader of the Opposition. Order. Order. Racist, right? It's a Liberal Party problem, though. It's a Liberal Party's problem. Of course it is. They're terrible people, the Liberal MPs.

But if Peter Dutton asks if we can make sure the people coming from Gaza, a place run by a registered terrorist organisation, can we please make sure that those people are getting proper security checks before they come to Australia? If you ask that question, you're a racist. And according to Zali Stegall and the Teals, that's just fine.

The TLMPs who are so outraged by the behaviour in question time seem to have conveniently ignored their own track record when it comes to handling workplace disputes and how they behave in Parliament. And they're using evidence that the Coalition Act dreadfully, and the reason that the Coalition Act dreadfully, or the proof, is that...

198 ejections have occurred in the 47th Parliament. That's when they're kicked out of the House of Reps. And of the 198 ejections, 161 have been coalition members, 36 Labor and one from the Greens. Well, there's only a few Greens for one. Secondly, the bloke who kicks people out is Milton Dick, the Labor Speaker. Labor Speaker.

In an article from 2014, 342 members had been given the boot since Federation and opposition MPs account for 90% of those ejections. 90%, regardless which party holds office. And in one week, Bronwyn Bishop, remember Bronwyn? She was Speaker. She booted 47 MPs out of Parliament, all of them the Labor opposition.

They must have been all misogynists in the then-shortened Labor opposition, using the Teals' logic. It's just such a ridiculous argument that it deserves very little of the Parliament's energy. But no, we have the Teals, don't we? Holier than thou, as usual, sitting at the cashed-up pulpit of morality, telling everyone else how to behave.

The inconvenient truth of their own problematic practices, like the case with Monique Ryan, is that it is crucial for anyone advocating for change to be accountable for their own actions. It's not just about pointing fingers. It's about leading with integrity and genuinely committing to standards that you are demanding from others. But the problem with the Teals is self-awareness. They don't realise they're hypocrites. That's the worst part. They don't realise it.

They don't realise they themselves can sometimes be to blame. But me just pointing that fact out is probably classed as abuse by these people. I honestly have no idea how anybody votes for them.