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

I am making the absolutely obvious point that solving the debt and deficit disaster that we were left by Labor is not easy. It is particularly not easy when members opposite are not assisting the repair; they are sabotaging it. This government takes responsibility for fixing the debt and deficit disaster that it inherited. I just wish members opposite would accept the responsibility for creating it, as create it they did.

The Leader of the Opposition likes to quote things. I think the people of Australia need to know a bit about the Leader of the Opposition. Everyone who knows the Leader of the Opposition fails to trust him. Let me just remind the Leader of the Opposition and the people of Australia just what his colleagues think of him. To quote: '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—

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