FORDE MP Bert van Manen has broken ranks to join the chorus of MPs criticising Tony Abbott on his decision to give a knighthood to Prince Philip.
Mr van Manen said he was shocked and disappointed when he heard about the knighthood on Australia Day.
"I don't see the value of it to the Australian community. I wasn't consulted and I don't support it," he said.
"Certainly the feedback that I have had from constituents in my office is also that they are extremely disappointed and frustrated.
"Those awards should be kept for people here in Australia who do tremendous work in our communities and who don't always get recognised."
Mr Abbott made the decision to knight Prince Philip without consulting his MPs or Cabinet, which angered and puzzled many of his colleagues, who wanted the government to start the year on the front foot.
"We have got some very significant economic and budgetary issues that we have got to deal with both in the short term and in the longer term for the benefit of the country now and all this does is take the focus off that," he said.
However Wright MP Scott Buchholz said while awarding a knighthood to Prince Philip was "a swing and a miss" it was hardly a "heinous crime".
"It wasn't a good decision but when you hold it up against other decisions prime ministers have made, such as the ban of the live cattle export market, the decision he made falls into insignificance," he said.
"There was little or no economic fallout from it. There is no legacy of crippling debt the next generation is going to have to attend, unlike other decisions that have been made that have had a far more crippling effect on the economy."
Mr van Manen would not speculate on whether the Prime Minister's knighthood decision had cast doubt over his position as Coalition leader but when asked by the Times if Mr Abbott still had his support, he said "at this stage he does".