Tim Watts (Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The real reason for what has happened is that the Prime Minister is trying fit up the Australian people for a hairshirt. Despite promising no cuts to health, no cuts to education and no changes to the pension before the election, we finally saw Tony Abbott's true agenda when his Commission of Audit report was released. It is no surprise that he held back the release of this report until after the WA Senate election. It is no surprise that he did not tell voters about his extreme ideological agenda before the last federal election.

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