Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

The fact is that the Leader of the Opposition was given licence to speak widely across this issue, and I am doing no more and no less than the Leader of the Opposition. I am speaking to the same topics that he spoke to. He claims that this government has shown a lack of competence and a lack of propriety in government. I say to him that he has shown a lack of competence and a lack of propriety in opposition. If he is not capable of running a decent and a competent opposition, he certainly is not capable of running a decent and a competent government. This Leader of the Opposition was a failure as a defence minister, he was a failure as a telecommunications minister, he was a failure as a finance minister—

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