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

In Australia, we generally enjoy ourselves in summer and go out and have a good time. But what we found over this summer was a Prime Minister who has left this country wanting. The Prime Minister went to the election pretending he was the daggy dad, the everywhere man. But what we found out was that the Prime Minister is actually a white shoe salesman; when you shake his hand, you want to count your fingers. Over Christmas, the Prime Minister lied about being on holiday. Then he lied about where he went. Then we found out, through someone's Instagram photos, that he was in Hawaii. When he came back, what did he do? He absolutely dismissed everything that was going on with the bushfires and everything that was going on around him.

And then we had the sports rorts, an amazing piece of government grant corruption the likes of which we have never seen before. Wherever on the front bench you look, you see minister after minister after minister under a cloud because they have treated Australian taxpayers' dollars like their own. We've even seen videos emerging of the Prime Minister's staff standing on chairs saying, 'Yay, we've got barbecues for our sailing club!' Well done! Meanwhile, many Australian sportswomen have to go out and change in cars or not have change rooms at all because the government corrupted a process to ensure that it looked after itself and not the Australian people.

We've heard that the Prime Minister often gets compared to Homer Simpson. I think that's a bit unfair. He's really a cross between Ralph Wiggum and Barney Gumble! Whichever way you look at it, this bloke is not fit for the office he holds.

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