Federal Parliament has embraced the schoolyard tradition of an "end-of-year muck-up day" setting new standards in misbehaviour.

In a raucous Question Time to end Parliament's penultimate sitting week, the Speaker, Bronwyn Bishop, suspended 18 MPs - all Labor.

With a massively depleted front and back bench behind him, a frustrated manager of Opposition business Tony Burke rose to inform the House "18 people in one Question Time is an all-time record since Federation".

An equally frustrated Leader of the House Christopher Pyne responded, describing the Opposition as "idiots", adding: "The Australian public should know that the Labor Party have run a deliberate strategy of ejection today from the House.

"They have deliberately attempted to be thrown out."

Ms Bishop agreed, noting her long list of suspensions included many Victorian MPs "who perhaps wish to go back and campaign" along with others who "may wish to have early planes" to return to their electorates for the three-day break before Parliament resumes for its final sitting week of the year.

The Speaker had indeed toiled through an unprecedented 70 minutes and re-written the record books for Australian Parliamentary history.

Bishop says claims she picked on Labor MPs 'pathetic'

She broke the previous one-day record for suspensions which had stood at 12.

The Speaker almost racked up 50 suspensions in one week, but fell short at 47.

Ms Bishop's personal total of suspensions for the 44th Parliament stands at 285.

Today's record of 18 were marched with monotonous regularity by the Speaker:

2:06pm - Ed Husic

2:06pm - Ed Husic 2:07pm - Michelle Rowland

2:07pm - Michelle Rowland 2:14pm - David Feeney

2:14pm - David Feeney 2:14pm - Richard Marles

2:14pm - Richard Marles 2:14pm - Julie Collins

2:14pm - Julie Collins 2:15pm - Nick Champion

2:15pm - Nick Champion 2:26pm - Claire O'Neil

2:26pm - Claire O'Neil 2:33pm - Joel Fitzgibbon

2:33pm - Joel Fitzgibbon 2:35pm - Terri Butler

2:35pm - Terri Butler 2:38pm - Anthony Albanese

2:38pm - Anthony Albanese 2:42pm - Michael Danby

2:42pm - Michael Danby 2:47pm - Jill Hall

2:47pm - Jill Hall 2:52pm - Kelvin Thomson

2:52pm - Kelvin Thomson 2:54pm - Melissa Parke

2:54pm - Melissa Parke 2:57pm - Matt Thistlethwaite

2:57pm - Matt Thistlethwaite 3:00pm - Pat Conroy

3:00pm - Pat Conroy 3:01pm - Graham Perrett

3:01pm - Graham Perrett 3:02pm - Alannah MacTiernan

Reflecting on the depleted seats to her left at the end of the Question Time, Ms Bishop was in no mind to accept Labor's suggestions she may have acted with haste or been heavy-handed.

"Simply to stand there and try and say that you all behaved like little angels and were picked on is pathetic," she told Mr Burke and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten.