David Bushby (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

This motion of urgency just demonstrates the fact that the Tasmanian Labor-Green government does not have the record to be able to stand up and say that it needs to be re-elected, on the basis of what it has done to Tasmania over the last 16 years.

If you look at the state of the economy, if you look at the state of jobs and if you look at any of the economic or social indicators, Tasmania is at or near the bottom in just about every particular category. The fault for that has to be pointed directly at the fact that we Tasmanians have suffered under 16 years of Labor, and the last four years from Labor in bed with their good friends, the Greens.

And so what are they doing here at the last minute? They are trying to create an issue, because they cannot stand on their record about the NBN.