Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister Assisting the Leader for Science) Share this | Hansard source

that anything goes; you took the view that it did not matter, so you could then go to an election and say, 'Trust us: we will not have any cuts to education, we will not have any cuts to health and we will not have any cuts to the ABC.' This is a government that is now characterised by its capacity to even lie about its lies. So the question of the democratic deficit that arises in these circumstances—