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From the Courier Mail November 28, 2006:

A FEDERAL MP angrily told a colleague he had "cut the throats" of better animals than him, during a fiery meeting of Coalition MPs yesterday.

Liberal MP Alby Schultz, who once worked as a slaughterman, levelled the threatening comment at Queensland Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce after being questioned about his plan to give men who pay child support the right to a DNA test.
Senator Joyce had told the meeting, chaired by Prime Minister John Howard, that the proposal was not in the interests of children.

In a verbal stoush that followed, a furious Mr Schultz allegedly called Senator Joyce a dickhead, before making the throat-cutting claim.

Sources said the altercation was broken up by Liberal hardman Senator Bill Heffernan, who himself was involved in an infamous dust-up with the outspoken Nationals senator last August.