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

Like all of the questions that the Leader of the Opposition asks, it is essentially about trust and it is essentially about honesty. His trust and honesty is an important issue for this parliament to consider and this parliament needs to know what his colleagues think of him:

The distrust between Rudd and Shorten was intense and enduring. The Gillard camp was contemptuous of Shorten, considering him weak and duplicitous. Neither side trusted him and neither side revised its view.

This is a Leader of the Opposition whose colleagues do not trust him. If he is not trusted by his own colleagues, he should never be trusted by the people of Australia.

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