Julian Hill (Bruce, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I'm allowed to say 'lies'; I'm not allowed to call someone a liar, Deputy Speaker Goodenough. That's very clear. But let's, for the sake of the chair, talk about the pattern of untruths, the pattern of mendacity, from the whole mob over there. The member for Chisholm is smiling over there about wages having gone backwards under the Liberals. Well done! You'll get what's coming to you at this election.

There are lies that are weird. About 'Shanghai Sam'—he says he didn't say it; it's on his own Facebook page. His failures are well-known, but what's really clear now is: this government has no agenda left. They can't bring on real legislation for a vote. They've created a fake fight on something that is deadly serious about social media trolls, because they haven't introduced a national anticorruption commission. And they've now cancelled parliament—five days of the Senate between tonight and 7 August; 10 of this House. Absolutely disgraceful. The Prime Minister's a fake, a fraud, and we deserve better in this country. (Time expired)

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