Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the Leader of the Opposition for his sledge. It really was a very wide bow, so it gives me the opportunity to give a very wide answer. The Leader of the Opposition has a record of deception as long as your arm. He speaks about our energy policy. This is the guy who said that business leaders were complaining to him about our safeguard mechanism, when in fact the business community, including the BCA, said their members supported it. He then went on to talk about energy policy, while voting against relief—$3 billion of relief—for Australian families. He claimed that he'd had conversations with Indigenous elders in Leanora to convince him to vote no in the referendum, when those same elders say that he advised them to vote yes. That's what they had to say. He told his own party room their official position would be a legislated national Voice, and then blindsided them by going into a press conference and getting rid of any concept of a national Voice. Last week in this chamber, he stood up at this dispatch box and said it was a good thing that we were attending ASEAN and the G20 and participating in international forums and said, 'When the Prime Minister leaves Australia to represent our nation, we're bipartisan. We want the world to know that.' Then, the next day, he mocked it. The next day he opposed it. He accused the AEC of rigging the referendum.

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