David Bushby (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I also rise to speak on the matter of public importance that I submitted:

Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s failure to lead the country with integrity and failure to act in the national interest.

I have listened with great interest to the two government senators who have been speaking this afternoon, trying to defend what I think can only be called the indefensible. Both government senators have vainly attempted to defend what can only be described as an appalling record of four wasted years in government. They struggled to find anything concrete in their defence.

Senator Furner started off by talking about the tax cuts that they delivered early on in their four-year term. Those tax cuts were actually our tax cuts that they copied during the 2007 election.