Insults fly as Turnbull government MPs turn on each other

By David Wroe
Updated November 29 2017 - 3:08pm, first published 2:56pm
Nationals MPs Andrew Broad and George Christensen depart after the joint party room meeting at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 18 July 2016. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Nationals MPs Andrew Broad and George Christensen depart after the joint party room meeting at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 18 July 2016. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Senators Barry O'Sullivan and Ian Macdonald during an estimates hearing at Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday 9 February 2016. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Senators Barry O'Sullivan and Ian Macdonald during an estimates hearing at Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday 9 February 2016. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Coalition tensions over a banking inquiry are close to breaking point with a former Nationals leader branding senior Liberal cabinet minister Christopher Pyne a hypocrite, and a sitting Nationals MP warning the Turnbull government against handing down "stone tablets from on high".

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