June 26, 2013, 6:09 a.m.
The behaviour of politicians during question time hardly inspires confidence in the workings of Australia's political institutions.
Yet the hung Parliament has been a forum for genuine debate on issues ranging from asylum seekers to the carbon tax amid the name-calling and point-scoring of the past three years, according to Rob Oakeshott, the independent member for the federal seat of Lyne.
''I'm in the camp, and I concede it's a small camp, that underneath all the noise this has been a significant period and a successful period in Australian parliamentary history,'' he says.
Mr Oakeshott is one of five past and present politicians who will participate in a Q&A session following a performance of The Hansard Monologues, a play based on speeches made in Parliament since 2010.
Three actors, David Roberts, Camilla Ah Kin and Tony Llewellyn-Jones, will re-create the drama of the past three years of federal politics using only speeches made by politicians in Parliament as recorded in Hansard.
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