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

The whole tenor of question time that the Leader of the Opposition has orchestrated is about trust. I am happy to deal on the question of trust, because it was said just a few months ago, in Paul Kelly's authoritative book, Triumph and Demise:

The distrust between Rudd and Shorten was intense and injuring. The Gillard camp was contemptuous of Shorten, considering him weak and duplicitous. Neither side trusted him and neither side revised its view.

Let's not take Paul Kelly as the only source here. People who know this person well understand that he simply cannot be trusted. I am quoting the former Prime Minister now, Julia Gillard. She routinely referred to the likes of Albanese, Swan, Mark Arbib and Billy Shorten as the dark side of the ALP—numbers men who believed in nothing but themselves. If two Labor Prime Ministers could not trust this opposition leader, if his own colleagues could not trust him, if his own leaders could not trust him, the Australian people will never trust him.

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