Peter McGauran (Gippsland, National Party, Deputy Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

So in the Labor Party document there are no footnotes, there is no attribution and there is no notation. The original thinker, the member for Griffith, is parading other people’s work as his own. Bill Shorten would not do it. No, Bill would not do that. And, worse still, this is quite deliberate, because different sentences are cut and pasted with other sentences, and paragraphs from the five different sources are mixed up. There is a deliberate deception in the drafting of this document. This is no accident. This is not taking information from one source and making it a whole slab; it is all cut and pasted by this supposedly original thinker. So it is deliberate plagiarism. The only thing worse than having no Labor policy is having a plagiarised Labor policy, and I table all of the documents for members to reach their own judgments.

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