Jacqui Lambie (Tasmania, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I think it is time to come clean, because you owe this to the Australian people. More importantly, you owe it to every poor Australian. You are taking money from them. I do not give a stuff which way you look at it. The freeze is taking money off them. They are not getting any increases. While everybody else is getting pay rises each year you are putting it on hold. While milk and bread go up you are freezing their payments. That is what is going on. That is the truth so please do not spin it. Shame on you!

So, since you have done such a shocking deed, I bet you are bloody proud of yourself, I can tell you. It is time you come clean. What dirty deals have you done with the NXT to get their vote? What dirty deals have you done with One Nation? I will give One Nation some advice very quickly. You know why Clive Palmer and PUP did not survive? I will tell you why they did not survive. It was because Clive did dirty deals with the Libs. He stopped doing what he had said he would do for the battler. He was full of it just like One Nation is. You are lying to the constituency that voted for you, but you know what, I do not mind.

The CHAIR: Senator Lambie, just take your seat for a moment. Please address your remarks to the chair, and lying is unparliamentary, so you need to withdraw that.

Madam Chair, I withdraw that. I will use 'misleading' then. Anyway, the Australian people are waking up to them so I do not really need to do much else in that department. If you do not mind, could you stand up and be honest to all those poor people out there and tell them what deals these people sold them out for, because you owe it to them.