Rob Mitchell (McEwen, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I point out for the member for Wright that the spending on defence was actually the same as what it was under Howard. So what you are actually saying is the Howard government was the worst on record. Just to clarify, there seems to be a misconception around. When they leak their talking points every day, they go out there and they read them and they think that, if they say it for long enough, it is true. We have seen that with this government. Each and every day we have seen a change.

We can see the Prime Minister in his bright yellow tie over there. He has been very agile. Everything he said he stood for he has backflipped on immediately. He stood for marriage equality, he stood for climate change and he stood for the republic and he backed away. Now, today, we find out that the man who was going to have the big economic platform, the man who was going to bring through change after knifing Tony Abbott, has backed away from his tax reform agenda.

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