Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

He has said, for example:

Look, certainly, I think the politics of this issue has changed. I think the politics of this issue has changed dramatically.

This is a man who basically has admitted that the only thing that drives him is the politics. He went on to say:

I don’t think my assessments of the science or of the policy ever changed that much. I think all that really changed was my assessment of the politics of the issue.

He is a man who believes in nothing, who will do and say anything, who will say any misleading statement that comes into his mind in order to politically profit.

Who has caught this the best? Who has best summarised this for the Australian people? Is it me as Prime Minister, as someone here who debates in this parliament? Is it someone on the government benches? Is it someone in the media? No, it is not. The person who best caught all of this about the Leader of the Opposition is the member for Wentworth, when he said:

Many Liberals are rightly dismayed that on this vital issue of climate change we are not simply without a policy, without any prospect of having a credible policy but we are now … also without integrity. We have given our opponents the irrefutable, undeniable evidence that we cannot be trusted …

This was the member for Wentworth’s critique of the leadership of this Leader of the Opposition. This was the member for Wentworth saying to the Australian community that, though he holds a Liberal Party card—

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