American reacts to the Austalian Parliament FUNNIEST MOMENTS 

Nobody will ever rival the wit of Paul Keating at the microphone in Australian parliament.

There should have been more Paul Keating, he described one politician as “a shiver looking for a spine to run up” and another one as “all tip and no iceberg”. You never knew what clever put down he would come up with next.

“She’s not intimidating enough” Bronwyn Bishop: Hold my beer. 😂

There are definitely worse ways to spend an afternoon than stoned and watching parliamentary question time followed by playschool

"I think it'd be a lot of fun working in the Australian Parliament" Me, having worked here for 27 years: "No. It's not :-P "

I love watching them in parliament, I’m a complete nerd. We had one pm who was famous for his insults, Keating, he’s a classic

Aussie Parliament can be very entertaining. 94A is the equivalent of sending a child to their bedroom for punishment, but in reality they either go back to their office or visit the Parliamentary Pub - which is terrific by the way.

Yes, Ryan, that idiot brought a couple of sticks of dynamite into the parliament building to prove a point.

What you are watching is known as "question time" - depending on the topics & time of day, this can be extremely boring or super exciting. The 2 boxes on the table (1 on each side) are called "Despatch Boxes" & are often used to place papers or notes by the person speaking - like a lectern, which are spaced ~396 cm (2 swords & 1 Inch apart) based on historical grounds. The green room is the "Lower House" (= House of Reps) and red room is the "Upper House" (Senate). The sand filled glass timers (4 min & 1 min) are used for Ballots or Divisions, while electronic clocks are used for speech monitoring. Visitors or Strangers are allowed to watch proceedings from the galleries (seats upstairs around the room). The speaker of the house (umpire type person) is supported by clerical staff and manages the procedures or operations of the parliament. This person also has a casting vote on proposed bills (laws) if the vote is tied.

You need to react to Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech… that’s the greatest put down of a politician ever! Even the 10yr anniversary of the speech was celebrated

10:54 that lady (the House Speaker) was removed after a Royal Commission for spending $5,000 of Tax Payer money for a Helicopter flight to a Political Event that she did not need to fly to. She could have driven. Her name is Bronwyn Bishop. We in Australia do NOT like Politicians who spend money needlessly or are in it for themselves and not for the people.

It's really sad and scary that the most powerful people running the country act like children.

Pauline took it off the burqa within a second of you starting the video. Under 94a of the House of Representatives Standing Orders, the Speaker of the House of Representatives can direct a disorderly member to leave the debate for one hour. During that hour, the member cannot enter the House; they cannot participate in the meeting and cannot make a speech or vote.

Paul Keating telling someone to give John Howard a Valium…. lol… gold

I was waiting for Gillard's "snivelling worm" exchange, that was classic comedy gold!

Talking about an unruly British parliament (also the Australian parliament), you may notice that the table down the middle of the room is quite wide. The original table was designed to be wide enough to prevent members on either side, being able to swing a sword at a member on the other side. All tables following have kept that tradition.

The red head is Pauline Hanson, she is far right and has said some very funny things over her political career. She used to own a fish and chip shop before running and there was a song named "The fish and chip b....h from Ipswich" You either lover her or hate her. Tony Abbot, Liberal was known as a "Utensil" on a stencil sprayed around the Brisbane graffiti scene. He loved running around in his Speedos. The Agriculture Minister, Barnaby Joyce, because he always goes red in the face, has been called "beetrooter" by a well known Australian comedian. Security: I liked the terrorist incident in the Canadian Parliament, whilst he was running around with a gun, shooting willy nilly, the clerk of the court went and got his gun out of his office, calmly walked up behind him and shot him in the head, dead.

The funniest moment in recent parliamentary history was Christopher Pyne calling Bill Shorten (then leader of the opposition) a c**t. The speaker then reminded him to address the leader of the opposition by his correct title 😂

The Clerk in Australia and the Chairman are The Boss! If they see you being a pos they will kick you out and you will leave. America needs that.

My daughter had a recent school excursion to NSW Parliament and watched this in action.... She said - "omg, they are like kids! You're irrelevant.. You're stupid... OMG mum"

Australian parliament is based on the Westminster System. Yes UK

Ryan, you should watch some sort of compilation of Paul Keating's best moment in Parliament - he was gold, nobody beat him in a challenge of words or wit!

Fun fact, the older woman speaker was EXTREMELY biased towards her party, ejected the most members of the opposition over the course of her reign than any other speaker for the most mild crap, and kicked off a crisis in her own party through misappropriation of funds and got dismissed

Paul Keating's Greatest Hits is well worth watching.

Wrong. The funniest was when greens senator told Barnaby Joyce that she wasn't "one of his braindead supporters". To which he replied "you'd have to have a brain for that."😂

That was kindergarten compared to both PM's Keating and Whitlam, Keating's wit, made school kids out of career politicians.

Ryan, interesting you should compare the importance of agriculture and mining. That particular Minister for Agriculture, Barnaby Joyce, and his National party, have historically been elected by and for rural farmers, but over the last 30 years or so, they seem to be more supporting of the mining industry (and in the pocket of its billionaires) to the detriment of the farmers.

The Westminster parliamentary style is confrontational. Not just in Australia.

Every aussie can watch daily the parliament question time which allows us to really see what our pollies are up too. Mate look up ute gate in Aussie pollie question time. Born in NSW, moved at 29 to VIC and the QLD 7 years ago. Now in Dalby QLD AUS mate

The system bears resemblance to the British parliamentary system as it was modelled after the system implemented by the British colonisers.

Transgression under section 94a of the House Rules allows for the Speaker of the House to remove a member of parliament from further contribution in the current session. Bronwyn Bishop, of 'flying around in public funded helicopter rides to attend weddings' fame was once quoted, after having been given a tour of a RAN submarine [she was deputy Minister for Defence at the time] as saying 'Do you know, I'm the first Australian female politician to have gone down on a submarine? It was full of seamen.'

Yes more entertaining. When I was much younger my mates and I would sit up after the footy with more beer, chips and nuts to watch parliament question time. Paul Keating was the silver tongue. You gotta play the best of Paul Keating sometime. He's still pretty sharp and opinionated even now.

Sam Dastiyar the Muslim that came from Iran in that Video was a Former Senator that Turned out to be one of the most Corrupt People in Parliment . So the Redhead Pauline Hanson another Senator was sort of right about him be a Bit Dodgy !

The Australian parliamentary system is the British Westminster system, as it was developed by our leading politicians of the 1880s when they represented the individual British colonies on the continent. However, they looked around the world for good ideas and decided that the US names for the chambers suited Australia better. Therefore we have a House of Representatives instead of a House of Commons (which would make no sense since we’re all commoners here) and a Senate instead of a House of Lords. The adjudicator/Chairman figure is the Speaker of the House of Reps, and the effective functioning of the chamber depends on how impartial and authoritative they are. Bronnie (the white haired harridan) was a shocker.

The security issue reminded me of the Chaser boys getting through security at the APEC summit in 2007. Absolutely hilarious. You really need to do a reaction to that!

Another thing interesting in the Australian Parliament House is the red line on the floor, a long time ago people would disagree and then fight with each other with swords so the red line was in place so if they crossed it they would be kicked out by security, this is still in practice today. The red line is called a blood line.

Boy our government is a circus

Pauline Hanson is a special kind of awful. Barnaby Joyce...*hic*. Former PM Scott Morrison isn't able to get a job - no one wants him. Watching Australian politics is a sport.

It's hilarious how they call each other honourable, when they are far far from what that word actually means 🤦🏼‍♀️

Country Party member Sir Winston Turnbull shouting in parliament: “I am a Country member”. Prime minister Whitlam- responded “I remember". Laughter erupted from both sides of parliament.

Best part about Aussie politics we don’t have Trump ,

You should listen to Paul Keating, Bob Hawke, and especially Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech.

I'm Aussie and I pissed myself laughing the whole time😂

94A: Pursuant to standing order 94(a), if the Speaker considers a Member's conduct to be disorderly he or she may direct the Member to leave the Chamber[455] for one hour.

"Madam Speaker" was the worst speaker we ever had. A total and absolute garbage human being.

Soooo many things to say about the rabble that passes for a Parliament in this country 😅 The red-headed woman is Pauline Hanson, who arrived in Parliament in about 1998 and has been a pain in the arse ever since. Her anti-Asian, anti-Muslim, anti-pretty-much-anything stance shows Australia at its worst. The scary blonde coiffed woman in the Speaker's chair, Bronwyn Bishop, was notoriously biased against members of the Opposition party, even though the Speaker is supposed to be neutral. We have more independent MPs these days, thank god, to break up the monotony of the old party system.

Watching these just makes me happy that the liberal crooks were removed lol Barnaby , Speedo man, Corman, and the bad imitations of Margie thatcher lol

Ryan, you need to watch Julia Gillard’s feminism speech in Parliament when she was Prime Minister. It went viral on RU-vid. Also worth noting is that many of those people speaking are the Prime Minister, who sits in the House of Representatives.

Islam has nothing to do with ethnicity. The most populous islamic majority nation in the world is Indonesia. Islam may have started with the Arabs but there is nothing to say you have to be Arabian.

We didn't even hear about the "suppository of all knowledge", thats "a big pill to swallow"

The Australian parliament actually based their own parliament on the Westminster system from the United Kingdom :D

“That’s a technicality come on” So Aussie haha

This video demonstrates the differences between the Australian form of democracy, based on the Westminster system, and a republic such as the United States. In the Westminster system, the government is formed in the House of Representatives according to the results of the federal election with the party that gains a majority taking the government benches, sitting on the right of the Speaker. The official opposition is the alternative party that may form a government, had the result been different. The opposition sits on the opposite side of the chamber. Other members and senators who are independent, or in minor parties, are unlikely to form a government and so are know as cross benchers and cover a wider spectrum of the Australian politic (eg Pauline Hanson). Many of these extracts are from question time in the House of Representatives, when the opposition has the opportunity to ask questions of the government, holding them to account. By contrast, In the republic of the US for example, the government is formed by the elected president, who makes their own appointments to the governing portfolios, such as Secretary for Defence or Treasury Secretary etc, who reside outside the parliament. In the US, these people are not politicians and cannot be questioned every day by the opposition in the parliament and be required to answer questions. The position of the Speaker is also slightly different. In the Westminster system, the Speaker is elected by the House to chair the proceedings. As the government typically has enough of a majority, the Speaker is usually a government member, but is expected to act impartially in the chair. The excessive use of standing order 94A, to suspend a member or senator from the chamber, could be construed as a lack of impartiality by the Speaker. The Speaker in the US, also elected by the House, has an added power of handing out the committee chair positions that enable the legislature to scrutinize the various portfolios of the government. In Australia, the Head of State is the Governor General, who is appointed by the King (currently King Charles III) on the recommendation of the prime minister, to discharge the responsibilities of the Crown and sign legislation in the formation of laws. Ministers are sworn in by the governor general acting on behalf of the King, so they effectively have two jobs; as a member of parliament and also a Minister of the Crown. This is reflected in the 'horseshoe' shape of the Chamber, as differing from the 'D' shape of the US House and Senate. The two opposing sides face each other in the proceedings. Ministers are on the front bench, with the opposition shadow ministers opposite as the alternatives ministers, but not sworn in by the Crown. The opposing benches are set, by tradition, two sword lengths apart, from medieval times when politicians wore their swords into parliament, separated by the two sword lengths so they cannot kill each other. This is the 'blood line'. The leaders, sitting at the centre table and speaking from the dispatch boxes are leading the charge, within range! You may call it rigorous and robust debate, but the dynamic is a little different.

In Australia, the green chamber is the House of Representatives. The red chamber is the Senate.

Australia's parliament is just like pommy parliament & we use the Westminster Agreement that the Poms use

The last guy is Barnaby Joyce. At the time he was leader of the National party and deputy PM. Pretty much the king of the clown show, a very dodgy politician.

Then they go down the pub (local bar) and down a few, and it looks exactly the same, just with less seats.

In NZ we had one funny moment when one member said another member "had the brains of an ass". The speaker told him to apologise and withdraw the remark. "Sorry Mr Speaker, I apologise, the member doesn't have the brains of an ass".

94a - go to the principles office immediately. No detours to the toilet block for a quick durrie either.

Look back on this, Pauline was well before her time.

Re your guesstimate that Australia's main sources of production are mining followed by agriculture, the actual breakdown (as of 2017) is.... - Services (incuding education and tourism): 62.7% - Construction: 7.4% - Mining: 5.8% - Manufacturing: 5.8% - Agriculture: 2.8%

Islam is not a race. It is a religion and a political system. Unlike in the west where there is a separation of powers between the state and any religion.

There’s gotta be something better about Australia than this. 🙄

Fun fact: There are stands in the House of Reprsentitives and The Senate where you can watch these meetings live. Theres also livestreams.

Gotta watch some of Paul Keatings greatest moments as a follow up... If you like that kind of thing.

The Speaker is the most important person in the room, if they stand up, you sit down and shut up, doesn't matter if you're the Prime Minister or a cleaner.

lol I can hear my old boss chiming in in the background when Bowen called for the shutdown of the House on standing orders 😂

The informal speaker with the untied tie you said was less formal was Kevin Hogan who was usually drunk in the speaker role lol.

Ah the good old days, when our politicians were known to us and transparent, and let us know what was happening in advance! These days it's sly deals, no accountability, honesty and intelligent answers are a vague concept! 😑 I love you for your attempts to bring up the tough questions Pauline, but please can you explain those bloopers! 😳 Swear him in on the Bible? 🤔 Yeah, Kevin 07 got switched off! 😄 Bronwen Bishop is missed (& Julie) 🙋 The rest of these "stars" are idiots, except for Paul Keating, the king of sarcasm and one liners (and Joe Hockey)! 😄 More 94A please! 😂 Great agricultural speech Barnaby 🐂 and wow, rumours! 😳 Good fun Ryan, more! 😌

Its all a clown show, you said it. They are ALL clowns.

Pauline Hanson, the red head, is our answer to a trump like politician.

I think the rowdiness is just common thing with the Westminster system of government, (UK, Aus, Canada and NZ)

There was a song about Pauline Hansen by Escape from Toytown called Fish and Chip bitch from Ipswich

Under the Westminster system of government, Parliamentary debate is about political theatrics,

Simon here again Ryan. Mate, you seem permanently confused, so nothing new there. I am still watching and liking your videos. WHY??? My mates and I in our early twenties would watch Parliament on TV each afternoon because it was like watching toddlers argue; hilarious. Does nothing for the country though! Keep up your crazy work mate, thanks.

Argy-bargy is part of our parliamentary system. I don’t think it gets quite as bad as the Poms, but “Question Time” can be funny. Our system is based upon the West Minster, bicameral style of government. Unlike the British system, our upper house is based upon the US system and not the House of Lords in Britain. Unlike the USA, our Executive is based in the House of Representatives which is the lower house. Our Executive is not voted for, separately, like your system. You have a separate vote for the President and Vice President. Our Prime Minister is the leader of the party that gets the most votes. The PM then has the Ministers appointed through the processes. In your system you have the State of the Union when the President is welcomed into the Congress. Our Executive is meant to be on the floor when parliament is in session. It can be crazy, but unlike your system, this is a parliament which comes from the French word “parlez” which means to speak or discuss in this context.

Used to watch question time at the gym. So hilarious I'd almost drop the weights on myself.

You could do a whole video on just Pauline Hanson's antics.

Under Standing Order 94a (which is 94a), if a member of the House of Representatives behaves in a disorderly or offensive way, the Speaker of the House of Representatives can suspend them from the House for one hour.

React to the Pauline Hanson Please Explain cartoons they are absolutely hilarious.

The hourglasses are for speeches and debates there are time limits for how long you've got

"Under 94a of the House of Representatives Standing Orders, the Speaker of the House of Representatives can direct a disorderly member to leave the debate for one hour. The Speaker may give the member a warning, however if they decide their conduct is too disorderly, the Speaker can immediately suspend them from the House under 94a."

4:26 No, Muslim is an Identity of people who practice Islam, their ethnicity could be Arabs, Turks, Iranian, Malay, Javanese, etc. and their nationality is Lebanese, Egyptians, Indonesian, Iranian, Malaysian, etc. Jewish is kinda similar to Muslim, as it's the identity of people who practice Judaism, however they often simplify things by using the term as an umbrella to cover everything, when within the Jewish identity, there's ethnics like Sephardic, Ashkenazi, Mizrahi and denomination like Orthodox, Conservative, Reformist, etc. The point is that Muslim is often incorrectly used as umbrella term while Jewish is correctly used as umbrella term.

Listen Ryan. As an Aussie myself, I apologise for the existance of Pauline Hanson. If you think Trump was a bad world leader, be grateful she never got to PM. Also to add context to the clip at 8:18 for non-Australians, the host Sam Dastyari (same guy who was asked by Pauline if he was Muslim) is playing on her dogmatism. The western suburbs of Sydney are infamous for high crime rates and high ethnic diversity that a lot of multicultural people from the western suburbs are often generalised as "poor ethnics" by other people. He's inviting her over there to eat a halal snack-pack (popular middle-eastern dish in Australia), knowing how anti-diverse and far-right she is.

And this is why the people of Australia don't care much about politics.

Being a Muslim is a religion, not an ethnicity. There are European muslims, Arab muslims, Asian muslims etc.

What?! Dude, your politics is the grandest circus freak show!! I've always thought we were boring compared to American politics. But grass is greener dot dot dot I guess 🤷‍♂️

8:48 it is the same 2 people. Sam Dastyari, and Pauline Hanson. Pauline is also, the same person earlier, in the Burka. He was in the Labor party (equivalent to your democrats) - resigned in the middle of a scandal, and she is in a party of her own, because our Liberal party (equivalent to your Republicans) wasn't racist enough for her.

94 A is basically giving them a timeout for an hour for being a child lol

Muslim and Jewish are NOT both ethnicities and religions. There are Muslims and Jews in so many countries with completely different ethnicities!

My goodness what an absolute shemozzle...and we love it. Sometimes very irreverent, often boisterous, and always guaranteed to be either as boring as batsh*t or as entertaining as a tabloid talk show.

Oh how damn embarrassing having Ryan and the world seeing Pauline Hanson. Trust me world, we know, we know - red headed bloody clown that one is, just ask Rodney Rude 😂

94A is their version of 'The Naughty Corner'. Where you're supposed to sit and reflect on your poor behaviour - and come back a much chastened and 'reformed character'. { ... aaaand pigs might also FLY! }

Aussie parliament is often like high school debating with a bunch of loser nerds. Bob Hawke and Paul Keating were the wittiest prime ministers ever.

Good to see you don't ejoy Pauline Hanson. She's pretty much the worst member of parliament in Australia (I think we can all agree), leader of the One Nation Party (Look up One Australia, it isn't great). On the other hand, it is pretty funny.

Ryan you are a 💯%, it’s just like a schoolyard, they throw out insults & constantly yell over each other, it’s highly unprofessional & embarrassing. And they have a habit of holding parliamentary meetings or voting in the middle of the night. Like the 40 odd % pay rises for themselves, in the middle of Covid, poor dears were overworked 😢

That anti muslim ranga is Pauline Hansen, you should look up the parody song called "I Dont Like Anything" by Pauline Pantsdown

We love One Nation.

We don’t like it… they get a ridiculous amount of money to stand around and fight like children all day while solving nothing. They’re a disgrace

Yeah, nah Ry, both Muslim (Islam) and Jewish are religious terms