ALANNAH MacTIERNAN has been red-carded from the House of Representatives for the second time after heckling “protected species” education minister Chris Pyne during question time.
Speaker Bronwyn Bishop sent the fiery Perth MP out of the chamber for an hour, after she twice heckled Mr Pyne while he was spruiking the government’s teacher education ministerial advisory group.
“He’s a protected species, ” Ms MacTiernan told the Voice.
“This is not really a big deal, people get sent out all the time.
“It’s probably just because people can hear me better now—I’ve been moved to the second row in my role as shadow parliamentary secretary for WA.”
During a speech shortly after her elevation, in which Ms MacTiernan passionately defended Labor’s infrastructure record in WA, Mr Pyne’s distinctive voice could be heard off-camera, “she’s a firecracker, isn’t she!”.
by STEPHEN POLLOCK
Perth Voice Interactive 
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