“Piss off, you idiot!”

Those were the four words that saw southern suburbs resident Frank Gramola kicked out of the Parliament House visitors’ gallery and banned, in scenes unprecedented in recent political history.

One parliament house staffer observed that she’s never seen anything like it in 20 years working in the building.

In the midst of a chaotic display that made a mockery of Premier Jay Weatherill’s pretensions to a higher standard of parliamentary behaviour, Speaker Michael Atkinson ejected two Labor members – Transport Minister Stephen Mullighan and his own partner Jennifer Rankine – before naming four Liberals for branding ALP backbencher Annabel Digance “racist”.

As Mullighan took his leave, Gramola fired his parting shot, the culmination of intense frustration – and a few broken sleeps – after a year railing against the powerful horns sounded by the Government’s much-hyped new electric trains along the Seaford line.

Gramola lives just 500 metres from the line, and likens the noise to having an ambulance drive past your window at 15 minute intervals from 5.30am.

Much of his bile is reserved for Mullighan: “He’s not listening to people; he keeps saying he’s looking into it, but doesn’t actually say what he’s doing.”

Gramola was in parliament yesterday – along with others – as a guest of fledgling Liberal MP David Speirs, who was giving a speech detailing residents’ concerns.

“I went there to listen to his speech, and to support him … and hopefully get it through to Mr Mullighan the horns need to be changed,” he said.

He insists his sledge wasn’t directed at Mullighan – “I said it to myself” – though it was evidently loud enough for the Speaker to hear at the other end of the chamber.

But as the House gathered to divide on the naming of the Liberal MPs, Atkinson threw a curveball.

“I believe during an earlier removal of a member under sessional orders, a member of the gallery on my left made a remark. Would that person care to have the honesty to identify themselves?” he said.

Gramola is hauled before the Speaker

Gramola stood, confused, hardly expecting what would happen next.

Atkinson ordered the Serjeant-at-Arms to escort him to the bar of the House, where he stood like a defendant in a courtroom or, more aptly, a naughty schoolboy hauled before the headmaster.

“What did you say?” the Speaker demanded.

“I said I’m not happy,” Gramola fibbed, somewhat paraphrasing his earlier invective.

Atkinson was having none of it: “You didn’t say that …Y ou used an expletive, didn’t you?”

“Would the Serjeant-at-Arms please obtain that man’s name and address and he will be banned from the parliament and conduct him out of the house precinct?”

“It was an experience,” Gramola later told InDaily of his first  – and last – visit to Parliament House.

Speirs says Gramola “clearly boiled over … but there’s such frustration down in that Brighton through Marino corridor”.

“Those residents all have huge frustration around this train horns issue.”

While Speirs is technically responsible for the conduct of guests he has signed in, he says he doesn’t “feel sheepish about it”.

“I think (Gramola’s) response when he saw Minister Mullighan was quite justified … It was probably an overreaction by the Speaker, but I certainly understand the frustration the residents feel,” he said.

Colleagues elected in 2002 have told Speirs “they’ve never seen anything like that before, so it hasn’t happened in this century at least”.

“Everyone’s sort of bemused,” he said.

As for Gramola, Speirs insists he’s a “pretty resilient character” and was only disappointed to have missed out on his afternoon tea.

Mullighan wasn’t aware Gramola was targeting him over the Seaford train horns issue, saying: “The only interaction I understood occurred between those people and MPs was the utterance that person made.”

He refused to buy into the controversy, telling InDaily to “speak to the Speaker”.

Atkinson has not returned numerous phone calls but sent a text message last night to clarify that “no-one has been banned for life.”

Regardless, Gramola laughs: “I won’t go there again anyway!”