Barnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party, Leader of The Nationals in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, we seem to have hit a nerve. I ask a further supplementary question. Given that the Labor Party came to power promising to honour their election promises, when the Prime Minister could not even honour a promise not to stab Mr Rudd in the back; to take the cost-of-living pressure off working families, yet they brought in a carbon tax; to be economic conservatives, yet they are heading towards their third debt ceiling; to fix Australia's public hospitals or take them over; to run balanced budgets, yet we have had record deficits; to end the blame game with the states, yet they have done nothing; and to turn the boats back, but they are coming in droves—why, after four long years, are you so hopeless? (Time expired)