Rob Mitchell (McEwen, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Lie? All right—untruth. Shall we use the term 'mendacious claim'? That is parliamentary. We are allowed that. The National Party and the Liberal Party fought against the NDIS at the start. We have just heard these stories being prattled about. They should read their own budget papers from 2014. It was fully funded—every single bit of it. If people in your communities are only getting access now, that is because for the four years you have been in government you have sat on your hands and done everything you could not to deliver an NDIS. So do not come in here with your faux outrage and pretend that you care, because the evidence shows clearly that you do not. It is—

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