As Ferris Bueller famously once said: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

Brad Battin on Tuesday became the first major party leader to have an enforced day off since Daniel Andrews back in September 2013 .

Wise to smell the roses, given the precarious employment status of Victorian Liberal Party leaders.

Battin had been interjecting through question time – like most MPs through most question times. His emotions were redlining as he heckled Attorney-General Sonya Kilkenny about victims of crime.

He had been warned by Speaker Maree Edwards that he was not immune from being removed from the chamber if he continued.

Battin didn’t stop, even when the Speaker stood up. This is parliamentary code for: be quiet, or you are in bi

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