Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

He should stop trying to curry political favour on the basis of a scare. It is cheap. It is unworthy. Decent Labor leaders like Bob Hawke and Paul Keating would be ashamed of it. Even the Leader of the Opposition was once above this kind of thing. He said in this House in 2011:

We in the Labor Party do not rely on scaring people to obtain power …

If it was true in 2011, it certainly is not true in 2014.

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