Karen McNamara (Dobell, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Here we are again, and welcome to another round of 'Let's debate Labor's lies', probably the worst game show in town, but at least we have front-row seats. The word for the week is 'duplicitous'—the same lies, the same rhetoric, the same mistruths and the same scaremongering, over and over again, just on different topics. I am sure that they decide their topics over a cup of coffee at morning tea or around the water cooler—'What are we going to lie about today?' The topic for today's lies is the $100,000 university degrees. Last time, the poison being spread was about the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement. Next week, who knows what it will be?

Let's talk about today's issue and the scaremongering campaign designed to shock every Australian into thinking the government is going to raise the cost of university degrees to some ridiculous amount. As an astute member of parliament, I thought I would do a bit of research and see the background behind these claims and assertions. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that it was actually a former member for Dobell who started the lies and scaremongering about the $100,000 degrees.

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