House debates
Tuesday, 10 February 2015
Questions without Notice
Abbott Government
2:07 pm
Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
My question is for the Prime Minister. Since the Prime Minister has promised that good governance starts today, when is the Prime Minster going to scrap the GP tax, the $100,000 fees and the $6,000 cuts to families? When is the Prime Minister going to tell the truth—that in fact absolutely nothing is changing?
Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
There will be silence on my left. That includes the Member for Gorton.
Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
The big lie came from members opposite going into the last election, when they told us that the deficit would be $18 billion. That was the big lie from members opposite, who went into the last election telling us that the deficit would be just $18 billion. It turned out to be $48 billion.
Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
The Member for McMahon will desist.
Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
A $30 billion budget black hole that they knew about, that they would not tell us about and that they created.
Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
The Member for Isaacs will desist.
Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
Members opposite delivered a debt and deficit disaster, and this government is doing what it can—
Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
The Member for Parramatta will desist or be warned, one or the other—
Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
to end the intergenerational theft that members opposite have inflicted on our children and grandchildren. That is what this government is doing. We are saving our children and our grandchildren from the chaos that members opposite created.
Having created the problem, they are in denial about it and they are sabotaging the solution. Savings worth $28 billion are currently being obstructed in the Senate by the Leader of the Opposition, including $5 billion worth of savings that they supported before the election. This is a Leader of the Opposition with not a single positive idea for our country. Every single thing we have put forward is opposed by this Leader of the Opposition. The South Australian Premier actually come up with a positive idea. He said we better have a look at nuclear energy. The Leader of the Opposition is even against that.
Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
The Member for Sydney will desist. The Member for Sydney! The Member for Sydney is warned.
Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
He is so negative that he will not even say yes to a positive idea put forward by the South Australian Labor Premier. It is all very well to complain. It is all very well to engage in sneer and smear across this dispatch box, but you cannot become Prime Minister of this country without having a positive plan, and we have had absolutely nothing from this Leader of the Opposition except 'bring back the carbon tax'—
Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
'bring back the mining tax and bring back the people smugglers'. That is his plan.
Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
The level of noise is quite unacceptable. It will stop or there will be many people who will be ejected.