Angie Bell (Moncrieff, Liberal National Party, Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

'Incompetence', 'mismanagement' and 'waste' are words that describe the government and this Prime Minister. The most important job of the Prime Minister is to keep Australians safe and he has failed to do so, with devastating consequences for our community. The boats keep coming and the borders are not secure under this government. Australians feel unsafe on the streets thanks to this Prime Minister and his immigration and home affairs minister allowing dangerous criminals to stay and be released into our community. It's incompetence.

Our economy continues to spiral out of control as the price of everything continues to skyrocket under this government. Small businesses are closing at an alarming due to the pressure of their interest payments almost tripling under Labor. It's outright mismanagement. There's $27 billion for 36,000 new public servants and $600,000 for a speechwriter, and that's just the latest. Don't forget the almost $500 million on a failed referendum. This is waste from this government.

Under the Labor government, there are no winners. Every single Australian is worse off now than they were two years ago. This is a government in chaos and a Prime Minister who has no idea what he is doing. This is an incompetent, mismanaged and wasteful government that must go.