Senate debates
Monday, 17 March 2014
Bills
Clean Energy Legislation (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) (Transitional Provisions) Bill 2013, Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Manufacture Levy) Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, True-up Shortfall Levy (General) (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, True-up Shortfall Levy (Excise) (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, Customs Tariff Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, Excise Tariff Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, Clean Energy (Income Tax Rates and Other Amendments) Bill 2013; Second Reading
12:59 pm
Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source
I am happy to argue that the Leader of the Opposition, as he then was, performed an about-face on principle and on policy in order to secure votes inside the Liberal Party room. If you want to pull me up on that, Mr Acting Deputy President, please do, because it is the truth. It was one of the most cynical manoeuvres in Australian political history—a senior frontbencher betrayed his leader, reneged on a bipartisan agreement, reversed his party's longstanding policy on a critical issue and then conducted a deceitful scare campaign because he was after the country's top—
Government senators interjecting—
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