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

of the State Insurance Office. On this issue Labor members are total hypocrites. Almost everything that Labor members have said about the privatisation of Medibank Private is a lie and they know it. When the Leader of the Opposition was in government he supported privatisation. He had the courage of Bob Hawke’s convictions, he had the courage of Paul Keating’s convictions, but it seems he has no convictions of his own. That is the problem with the Leader of the Opposition. We know what he is against—he is against everything which is potentially unpopular—but we do not know what he is for, and that is why he should never become the Prime Minister of this country.

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