Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

‘I am fighting this preselection as much as anything to uphold those values of integrity, honesty, upholding your word, because they are values that are important to society.’ We have the Leader of the Opposition here talking about declining standards of integrity and alleging that this is somehow the work of the Howard government, when he has his former friend—a frontbencher, the member for Hotham, a former party leader—saying that the lack of honesty and integrity is inside the Australian Labor Party itself. We have another Labor Party parliamentary secretary, the member for Lingiari, saying today—apropos of the declining standards of integrity that are the subject of this MPI—that we have standover merchants, thugs and sleazebags—

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