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

Who was the person who most consistently put his personal interests ahead of the national interest? It was the one who backstabbed two prime ministers. When he was a union secretary in Victoria, he might have been the union organiser for netballers, but in this place he has been someone who has backstabbed two prime ministers. I think that in this parliament people should be able to grow and, to some extent at least, put the past behind them. But what we have seen in this parliament today is an opposition that cannot change and has not learnt. That is what we have seen.

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