FEDERAL POLITICS:

The Albanese government will soon have a real test of how its Tuesday night Budget has gone down with the Australian public, via a byelection expected very shortly in the Queensland seat of Capricornia.

LNP member Michelle Landry is expected to resign from Parliament within days after a number of prominent Australian psychiatrists diagnosed her late yesterday with a range of serious mental illnesses.

These remote disagnoses, all independently arrived at, ranged from chronic delusional fantasies that submerged reality, a special form of early-onset dementia in people who stay in politics too long and stage-four persecution-complex paranoia where the person so afflicted believes they are being bullied and humiliated all the time, a condition that is sadly untreatable.

The medical experts then individually posted their findings on line after they had watched yesterday’s parlimentary Question Time in Canberra and a subsequent media conference by Ms Landry, the MHR for the near-Rockhampton seat for nine years.

Told of these assessments, Ms Landry early last night voluntarily admitted herself to the Sir Robert Menzies private hospital in leafy Manuka where The Bug has been told a series of brain scans overnight has detected nothing usual.

But The Bug also understands Landry told attending nurses who she believed were bullying and humiliating her that she had known for some time that things weren’t quite right, with whatever mental problems she may now be facing having manifested themselves physically in recent months with her no longer able to withstand the heat in her home kitchen which has seriously disrupted her love of cooking.

At the media call, Ms Landry accused Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of bullying and humiliating her after she asked the PM a question.

“He was yelling at me, he was pointing at me. I’ve been humiliated in front of the whole parliament’,” Landry said, barely holding back tears as her colleagues stood behind her and offered moral support for  her claims, some wearing #allmenareyellingbastards buttons.

“He had a yell at Peter Dutton but then he was looking at me and screaming at me.

“This is about women across Australia. I have two daughters and if I don’t stand up against this bullying in the Parliament, well, no, they won’t have any respect…” said the LNP politician who last year defended a Liberal staffer who took to himself and sprayed some baby batter over a female colleague’s work desk just for the fun of it.

The Bug has also replayed the same Question Time exchange that the specialists have partly based their assessments on and we can’t say they’ve got it wrong. We can’t use technical terms like medical professionals could but we think they know a nut case when they see and hear one.

After Ms Landry uses her question to accuse the PM breaking a “personal guarantee” regarding funding for a road project in her electorate, Albanese is shown getting stuck into Opposition Leader Peter Dutton who got the words Yeppoon and Yeppen (flood plain) mixed up. Landry can be seen smiling broadly (at top).

We can’t find a single moment in the PM’s answer where he returns to face Landry or shout at her. He faces Dutton’s way and gives the current Opposition Leader a damn fine dressing down, via a history lesson over LNP inaction when in government over infrastructure projects in her region.

There were no signs of the tears Sussan Ley claims she saw on Ms Landry’s face as the bullied and humiliated MP left the chamber.

Ms Landry is expected to present her resignation letter to the Speaker soon as soon as she discharges herself from the hospital over all the bullying and humiliation she has been forced to put up with there.

STOP PRESS: Ms Landry has received unexpected yet unconditional support from the national secretariat of the Country Women’s Association. In a statement the CWA said all Australian women deserved to be always talked to calmly and gently in both the home and the workplace.