Ross Cadell (NSW, National Party, Shadow Minister for Water) Share this | Hansard source

Having been on the marketing side of politics in my younger days, I can say that there is nothing more we love on the marketing side than a three-word slogan. Also something we senators don't shy away from is four-word slogans. I'd like to, through you, Deputy President, suggest a truth-in-advertising slogan for those on the other side. We've seen their best. They come up with great ideas. They identify problems and come up with ideas on how to fix them, but let's have a look at what they actually do when they get to them.

They came out with a $275 price cut for electricity for everyone. That didn't happen. They said, 'We'll build 11,000 affordable homes per year to help people with the housing crisis.' That hasn't happened. 'We'll fix climate change by taxing people.' That won't happen. 'We'll give prosperity back to people by managing the economy.' With the way they do it, that can't happen. So the four-word slogan that the Labor Party of Australia should be using out there is 'didn't, haven't, can't, won't', because this is where they come from—didn't, haven't, can't, won't. All their ideas, their solutions to the problems they identify, don't work. Historically, they haven't gone through—