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

What can you say? It is ridiculous that people can come in here and make mendacious claims, be deliberately untruthful and sit there and not have the guts to withdraw it. It shows what a low rent character the people who live in your electorate have as their representative. It is really disgusting that those opposite want to come in here and punish poor people to the benefit of the rich. We had a Prime Minister—when he had knifed the previous one—come in here and say that he was going to talk about economic leadership. Where did that go? Gone. 'Explain issues and foster understanding in the electorate' was his quote. Where did that go? 'Respect people's intelligence.' What did we get? 'Continuity with change'. They were that lazy, that pathetic, that they ran to a TV show to get their slogan. This is a Prime Minister who has failed and backflipped on everything he ever stood for. We all remember of the Q&A Turnbull who would sit there with his leather jacket on, saying he supported same-sex marriage and he would not lead a party that did not believe in climate change. Where did those policies go? They are gone.

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