Darren Chester (Gippsland, National Party, Shadow Minister for Regional Education) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Before the last election, the Prime Minister told all Australians, 'My word is my bond'. In the past two weeks, we have seen exactly how much the Prime Minister's word is actually worth. When it comes to the legislated tax cuts, all members opposite know they won the last election based on a lie.

It's not parliamentary to call another member a liar—

Sharon Claydon (Newcastle, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

It is not! It definitely is not, and I'm watching and listening!

Darren Chester (Gippsland, National Party, Shadow Minister for Regional Education) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

but there are many other words to describe the action of saying one thing before an election and doing something completely different afterwards. There are so many ways to describe such basic dishonesty: you can mislead, you can deceive, you can trick. You can misrepresent—

Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

You're voting for it!

Darren Chester (Gippsland, National Party, Shadow Minister for Regional Education) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

you can be loose with the truth, Jimbo! You can prevaricate; you can fib; or you can just tell an untruth.

Sharon Claydon (Newcastle, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Excuse me, member for Gippsland! You're skating on thin ice, and if you're referring to other members in this speech then please use their correct titles.

Darren Chester (Gippsland, National Party, Shadow Minister for Regional Education) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Interjections are disorderly; thanks to the Treasurer for his advice. Or you can distort the truth, tell a falsehood, engage in fabrication or practice the art of disinformation and distortion. You can even make a misstatement, or you can simply tell a whopper!

It doesn't matter what spin the Labor Party machine tries to put on this deceit, the Prime Minister has told a whopper 100 times. All the weasel words and the spin-doctoring won't change a single fact that the Prime Minister has broken his word and that the Australian people simply can't trust any of their local Labor MPs, who misled their electorates in the lead-up to the 2022— (Time expired)