Labor senator Glenn Sterle has interrupted Bridget McKenzie as she appeared to ask a question, calling her a 'naughty little girl' and saying he was 'going to do my block'.
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He also told her to 'be quiet' during the exchange in a Senate estimates hearing on Tuesday morning. Sterle eventually apologised and withdrew the comment.
McKenzie, a Nationals senator from Victoria, was asking questions of a dairy organisation appearing before the hearing, and pushed back on interjections from other senators about her line of questioning.
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