Matt Keogh (Burt, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Defence Industry) Share this | Hansard source

I withdraw. For a while, the character of this Prime Minister has been a bit funny, but now we realise it's beyond a joke. The Prime Minister said that no ineligible projects were funded through sports rorts. The Prime Minister said that all stranded Australians would come home by last Christmas. The Prime Minister said that Australia would be at the front of the queue for vaccines. Let's face it: the Prime Minister is never straight with the Australian people—or other international leaders, for that matter. Just ask his friend Emmanuel. He doesn't think; he knows.

Australians can't believe a word the Prime Minister says. These mistruths seem to come in many shapes and forms. There are misleading statements, evasions, equivocations and out-and-out untruths—in fact, we often see these mumbled during question time. But then there is the naughty boy's speciality—the blame-shifting. When things go well, the Prime Minister is always the first in line to take credit, but when things go poorly—

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