Not that the audit office doesn't have a point.

This pot of money has been badged and rebadged over the years as successive governments use it to hand out money to regional areas that might need a bit of help in considering the favourability of the local member.

Isn't is amazing how these reports come just at the best possible time for a beleagured government?

Sometimes you just have to sit back and thank lady luck.

Theassistant minister for infrastructure,Jamie Briggs,said Ms King's decisions were not only irresponsible but"it appears she intentionally deviated from proper process for political purposes only months out from an election".

The government has just released a report by theAustralian National Audit Office into the former Labor government's handling of theRegional Development Australia Fund.

The report looks at rounds 3 and 4 of funding when the then minister for regional services,Catherine King,who is now the opposition's health spokeswoman,approved $226 million in grant funding for 121 projects.

The audit found that the then minister approved 23 projects worth nearly 40 per cent of the funding that an advisory panel specifically recommended not be funded because they did not represent value for money.

Some final figures on theQuestion Time mass exodus - 18 MPs were ejected today which brings the total for the week to 47.

The MPs removed today were Ed Husic,Nick Champion,Melissa Parke,Jill Hall,Michelle Rowland,David Feeney,Richard Marles,Julie Collins,Clare O'Neil,Joel Fitzgibbon,Terri Butler,Anthony Albanese,Michael Danby,Kelvin Thomson,Matt Thistlethwaite,Pat Conroy,Graham Perrett and Alannah MacTiernan.

The total number of MPs removed by Speaker Bronwyn Bishop is 285. Five were Coalition MPs and 280 were Labor.

Let's pull back from the 18-MPs-ejected-in-one-day headline. This was not just your usual suspects getting booted (yes I'm looking at you Ed Husic,Nick Champion andGraham Perrett). Today's effort included people likeMelissa Parke who had never before been sent out.

Was Labor deliberately running interference? Yes and no. They are questioning the impartiality ofSpeaker Brownyn Bishopwhich,given no government MP was removed,is reasonable.

At the same time Labor's behaviour was appalling and did not do anything to improve the reputation of the House of Representatives.

It was also a distraction from the mission ofQuestion Timewhich was to hammer thePrime Minister over the GP co payment and the performance of theMinister for Defence.

ThePrime Ministercalls the end of Question Time.

Themanager of opposition business,Tony Burke,points out the number of MPs removed fromQuestion Time (18).

This is too much forEducation Minister,Christopher Pyne,who accuses the Opposition of a strategy of disruption which was"so transparent,so pathetic".

Mrs Bishop has had enough:"Now simply to stand there and try and say that you all behaved like little angels and you were picked on is pathetic."

Oh I'll bring it,don't you worry.