Monday night's Q&A was Sam Dastyari’s latest stroll into the spotlight.
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The 32-year-old Labor Senator and has been in Parliament for only three years. Portfolios don't come any more junior than his – Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for School Education and Youth – yet he has become one of Labor's highest-profile politicians.
From quoting Taylor Swift in speeches to the Senate, to steering the "Bill Bus" for seven weeks during the election campaign, to making videos on how to cook a Halal snack pack, Dastyari is everywhere.
His attention-seeking ways have led some colleagues to express concern he would "cut their grass" in their portfolio.
On the charge of being a shameless self promoter, he pleads guilty. "People say I'm a show pony who tries to get in the media. You bet!
"I don't shy away from the fact I'm putting on a show, I embrace it."
Dastyari, who some friends say has undiagnosed ADHD, has always lived life in fast forward.
He joined the Labor Party at 16, took over his first branch at 17 and was general secretary of the NSW Labor Party by 27.
Since coming to Canberra, Dastyari has defied the stereotype of the former machine man obsessed only with internal party machinations. As chair of the Senate economics committee, he has helped force multinational tax avoidance and poor behaviour by the banks into the centre of political debate.
"Sam needs to learn to control his energy levels," says one Labor frontbencher. "But he has a capacity to get noticed and in opposition you have to get noticed."
In the next term of Parliament Dastyari will have even more prominence, with Shorten expected to appoint him Leader of Opposition Business in the Senate.
Matthew Knott