Zed Seselja (ACT, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Science, Jobs and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

What we heard there from Senator Brown was, of course, the fake scare campaign that Labor are now trying to create because they don't want to talk about the issues in places like Tasmania. In Tasmania, what's happened under the Tasmanian Liberal government? They inherited a basket case from Labor and the Greens. The highest unemployment in the country, over eight per cent, has dramatically dropped under the leadership of Will Hodgman. They inherited a massive deficit and they've turned it into a surplus. They inherited some of the worst figures in health and have, in their time, seen massive improvements. Labor don't want to talk about that because that would be dealing with the facts, so what they're going to do is create a scare campaign ahead of a state election. It's never Jay Weatherill's fault that South Australia is a basket case, but they can never give credit to Will Hodgman, who's turned around the disaster that he inherited from Labor and the Greens.

This goes to the dishonesty of Bill Shorten and the Labor Party. We've seen the character of Bill Shorten and his team on display here today in the chamber, and I will get to that in a minute. Bill Shorten goes to Western Australia—