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

Thank you, Deputy Speaker. I wish the member for Wright could stay here so we could address the absolute untruths he told. As to the $275—don't run, because I want you to hear this—you come in and say we've broken a promise that's not due till 2025, so somehow we've broken something 12 months ahead of what it's supposed to be. This is an absolute joke.

If you want to talk about those who broke promises and were masterly at breaking promises and being untruthful, you only have to watch Nemesis tonight. It is a great show on the ABC, where we'll see exactly the untruths that were spoken consistently under nine years of mismanagement, rorts, chaos and broken promises: no cuts to SBS, no cuts to health, no cuts to education, $500 back for power and all these things. In fact, it was so bad that one of the prime ministers in that chaotic nine years, Mr Abbott, saw his own chief of staff—now one of those knuckle-dragging Sky After Dark presenters—get up and say that this story about 'no carbon tax under a government I lead' was an absolute lie. Even today, Mr Buchholz, the member for Wright—who is not a bad person but has the memory of a goldfish—can't remember the second sentence that was said, which was about a market based mechanism, which is exactly was done. What you can be assured of with the leftovers of the Morrison-Turnbull-Abbott mess is that truth is not—

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