Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Evans, representing the Prime Minister. I refer to the minister’s inability yesterday to confirm that any of Labor’s nine major 2007 election promises had been fully honoured and that any of the three government priorities set by Ms Gillard prior to the last election had been advanced. I also refer to yesterday’s Labor caucus at which Ms Gillard outlined a five-point plan: a stronger economy, a more sustainable environment, a fairer society, governing for all Australians, and keeping all Australians safe at home and strong in the world. Given that everyone in Australia supports these sentiments, isn’t this nothing but a pathetic bunch of motherhood statements, as vacuous as the Prime Minister’s citizen assembly idea? Is this absolute confirmation that the government is bereft of a real plan and has totally lost its way?