Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

This suspension should not be carried because the participants in this debate from the Liberal Party have nothing to say. They just have a fear campaign, and their fear campaign is not based on fact. Today’s fear campaign was condemned out of the mouths of the businesspeople they were trying to rely on.

Let us go across the fear campaigns of this week. They misrepresented the position of BlueScope Steel today. They misrepresented the position of the aluminium industry today. Yesterday they said that the government should be condemned because it had not given out enough information. The day before they were trying to persuade people that they would pay $1,500 extra for electricity and 6.5c extra for petrol. Every day these people will make something up to continue their fear campaign. Every day they come into this parliament and misquote others. Every day they intend to mislead the Australian people.

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