Amanda Rishworth (Kingston, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Health) Share this | Hansard source

We had on radio 4KQ in Brisbane the then opposition leader saying:

… if you sit down and start doing deals with the Greens, who do you represent? What do you believe?

That question has to be posed to our Prime Minister. My favourite is this quote:

What this Prime Minister did was say one thing before the election to win votes and then do the opposite in a squalid, shameful deal with the Greens to stay in the Lodge. Shame, Prime Minister, shame!

That was the then opposition leader. Who would have thought he would be talking about himself? If we fast-forward a few years then we have a Prime Minister whose quote so aptly represents his position. He has now done a deal with the Greens to stay in the Lodge. That is shameful and a huge broken promise.

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