Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Brandis. I refer to the Prime Minister's statement when deposing the former Prime Minister, that Australia needed 'a style of leadership that respects the people's intelligence, that explains these complex issues and then sets out the course of action we believe we should take and makes a case for it'. Given that the Prime Minister has been unable to make the case for his increase to the GST, his plan to allow state income tax, his proposal to cut all federal funding to public schools and his own budget plans for superannuation reform, hasn't the Prime Minister spectacularly failed his own test?