Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

And later an assassin, as my good friend the shadow minister for tourism so rightly interjects. As soon as they got in—the alarm bell should have been ringing there and then—the spending got out of control and the budget forecast did not look too good, and what was the first thing they did? They looked at the private health insurance rebate as a way of trying to get the budget back into a state which could give some sort of credibility to the Labor government's very poor efforts in managing the economy. Having been quite prepared immediately before the 2007 election to say one thing and then do completely the opposite afterwards, we should have known that this was a precursor of what the government was prepared to do on the carbon tax before the 2010 election.

Sadly, when it comes to this issue of truth, we have also seen it raise its ugly head when it comes to what happened on Australia Day. It seems very hard—

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