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

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his statement to this parliament on 20 August 2008, when he said:

No working families in this country will be worse off as a consequence of the industrial relations laws that we have advanced here in this parliament …

I also refer the Prime Minister to his interview with Neil Mitchell last Friday, where he said:

I’m not going to be in a position now nor were we then to say that in each individual circumstance there won’t be some variation. You can’t do that.

My question to the Prime Minister is: can he explain how this is not a blatant broken promise? Can he justify what appears to be, on the face of it, a clear misleading of this parliament?

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