Christopher Back (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

The Eagles are who I barrack for, Senator. The Western Bulldogs could put her at centre half-forward and put the rest of us out of our misery. As we know, Copenhagen came and that was the end, unfortunately, for Mr Rudd.

We move forward then to Ms Gillard as the Prime Minister. On 16 August she said, ‘There will be no carbon tax under a government I lead.’ On 20 August, the day before the election, poetically and historically she again said, ‘There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.’ That was of course backed up by her deputy, the Treasurer. He said, ‘We reject the hysterical allegation that somehow we are moving towards a carbon tax. We have made our position very clear. We have ruled it out.’ That was a lie. Ms Gillard went to the people on a lie and her deputy did the same thing. If she wants to resurrect herself in the eyes of the Australian people—