RED chocolate Valentine's Day roses travelled mysteriously around parliament, but failed to spark an outbreak of cross-party romance.
Not that Thursday's question time - the last for a month - was particularly raucous.
Opposition Chief Whip Warren Entsch brought the roses in for coalition MPs first thing in the morning.
By afternoon they'd spread to some unlikely places, including Julia Gillard's side of the despatch box.
At one point there were four in front of Kevin Rudd.
Some ingenious commentator will surely find leadership significance in this. Let's hope, for Kevin's sake, it doesn't mean only four members of caucus love him.
Actually, Liberal MPs probably had more to do with his growing collection, all in the spirit of love rather than troublemaking, of course.
During the session the opposition remained focused on tax and Wayne Swan was its main target.
Mums and dads made an appearance when Liberal backbencher Jane Prentice suggested to Swan that if they ran their household budgets like he ran the country's they'd soon be broke.
Swan, ever the master of deflecting attacks, replied that mums and dads with a mortgage were paying $5000 less than they would have in John Howard's time.
He continued, with mysterious logic, that Prentice would have mums and dads selling their homes and living in a tent.
At other times the treasurer was plain dismissive.
Christopher Pyne reminded him of his regular boast that Australia's job creation record is unequalled in the world before asking him to explain why several other countries, including Mexico and Chile, were doing better.
"Simply too silly for words," Swan sniffed. It was comparing apples, pears and oranges.
Gillard stretched the meaning of relevance to breaking point.
When Warren Truss asked her to rule out changing the tax treatment of self-managed super funds, she went on at some length about not joining the opposition in attacking the retirement savings of poorer Australians.
Anna Burke finally told her to return to the question, leading Gillard to protest that people were entitled to have the policies contrasted.
The overriding message of this first two parliamentary weeks of the September 14 election year is that the campaign will be another in Bill Clinton's "It's the economy, stupid" tradition.
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