Cory Bernardi (SA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

You condemn the grubbiness, the filth and the disgust that the New South Wales electorate exposed and turfed out. That is what you do if you want to be a person of integrity, but no: we have the defenders of it on that side. Let me make this point: when the people of New South Wales return a Baird Liberal government this weekend, what we will see is the extinguishment and demise of that small man of Australian politics, whose vision for this country is so myopic and so short-sighted that he is already under enormous pressure in his own party. That man is Mr Bill Shorten.

He is a man who has no plan for this country. He is a man who is prepared to sacrifice the future of our children, who is prepared to stand in the way of returning the budget to surplus, who is prepared to stand in the way of making progress to fix the mistakes of the previous government. He is a man the Australian people cannot trust. If you doubt that, ring Mr Rudd, ring Ms Gillard, and say, 'Can you trust Mr Shorten?' The answer to that is no. He is an impediment to this country becoming all that it can be. Shame on you for defending him. (Time expired)