Helen Polley (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

and they do not trust Ms Bishop. It does not matter who leads this government. I think August is when they are thinking about rolling the Treasurer and the Prime Minister. But it will not matter who the Prime Minister is of this government, because the Australian community have lost faith in it, because quite clearly they were lied to. There are no ifs and buts. They were not just misled; it was a lie to say that there would be no change to the pension in this country and no cuts to health and education.

In my home state of Tasmania, we have the notorious 'three amigos': Mr Nikolic, Mr Whiteley and Mr Hutchinson. They have all denied that there was going to be any change. In fact, they have come out and accused other senators and me of misleading the Tasmanian community.