Aussie politician calls rival a "c*nt" in Parliament, gets away with it

It’s incorrect to say that the Speaker doesn’t intervene: she plainly tells Pyne to refer to Members by their proper names, and he withdraws the remark. She doesn’t seem terribly excited by the utterance, but she doesn’t need to be; if Pyne had escalated or refused to withdraw the remark, then stiffer sanctions would certainly have been applied.