Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Before members opposite wax too sanctimonious and self-righteous about defence, let's never forget that they cut $16 billion out of defence. Let's never forget that Labor reduced defence spending as a percentage of GDP to the lowest level since 1938; that is what they did. While I am on the subject of trust, let's not forget that members opposite know how untrustworthy the Leader of the Opposition is. I am doing the people of Australia a service by letting them know what the Leader of the Opposition is really like. Again I quote Paul Kelly:

The distrust between Rudd and Shorten was intense and enduring. The Gillard camp was contemptuous of Shorten, considering him weak and duplicitous—

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