Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for her question. What she is asking is whether the dishonest text message had any effect, so she is like somebody who is charged with or sued for misrepresentation, for telling a falsehood and for misleading somebody, and whose defence is not that the statement was accurate, not that it did not mislead, but that it did not have any effect. That is basically her defence. How low have the Labor Party sunk? They think it is a joke to send to older vulnerable Australians millions of text messages that appeared to come from Medicare. They were designed and calculated to mislead.

Mr Perrett interjecting—

See this speech in context