House debates Statements by Members
Prime Minister
Darren Chester Gippsland, National Party, Shadow Minister for Regional Education
1:56 pm
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
It is not! It definitely is not, and I'm watching and listening!
Darren Chester Gippsland, National Party, Shadow Minister for Regional Education
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
You're voting for it!
Darren Chester Gippsland, National Party, Shadow Minister for Regional Education
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
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
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)