Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

I think the problem here is that we've now got the Prime Minister coming in here today quoting from Mike Burgess, the director-general of ASIO. In a quote, you can perhaps not quote the first sentence but quote sentences two, three and four and omit sentence five. You can accurately quote somebody in that fashion. But that is not what has happened here. The Prime Minister has come in today and deliberately twisted the words of the director-general of ASIO—one of the most serious allegations to be made against a prime minister. That is exactly what he did to suit his mistake from yesterday. This means that the Prime Minister is at odds with the director-general of ASIO. The Prime Minister has deliberately and selectively quoted the director-general of ASIO, omitting operative words to suit the Prime Minister's narrative from yesterday and justify his misleading the House, but it is clearly inaccurate and twists the words into a different meaning not meant to be delivered by the director-general of ASIO.

This is a prime minister who can't be trusted. He's making Australia less safe and he should be voted out at the next election.

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