The week in parliament was marked by intra-coalition potshots, patsies and a former politician hoist with his own petard.
Tuesday’s question time was preempted by a series of lows and a brief high. The lows: the passing of former finance minister Bill Birch and silver screen icon Sam Neill. The high: golfer Ryan Fox’s Open Championship win. Back to the low: despite the National Party vowing to campaign on “modernising” sexual consent law over t…