Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Families, Community Services, Indigenous Affairs and the Voluntary Sector) Share this | Hansard source

I have been misrepresented by way of a most mischievous omission and, in order to clear up the misrepresentation, let me give the full quote which the Deputy Prime Minister referred to:

I want to put it to the House ... that you cannot announce good news before an election without also announcing the bad news.

Then there was the quote from the Deputy Prime Minister, and then I went on to say:

A means test is a means test, and some people will not get the benefit that they were led to expect because of this secret means test which the government has sprung on the Australian public subsequent to the election.

The Deputy Prime Minister should have given the full quote and she should know better than deliver the kind of low blow she attempted today.

See this speech in context