Senate debates

Wednesday, 19 August 2026

Adjournment

Prime Minister

9:46 pm

Photo of James McGrathJames McGrath (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Shadow Special Minister of State) | Hansard source

A fibber, a bluffer, a phoney, a flipper, a falsifier, a liar, a fabulist, a teller of porkies, an illywhacker—they are just some of the words and phrases that Queenslanders have told me they believe of the Prime Minister over the last few weeks. I know, Acting Deputy President, that I'm not allowed to use the word 'liar' to describe the Prime Minister, so I won't. But I think it's very interesting what Queenslanders think about the Prime Minister and think about the relationship between the Prime Minister and the telling of the truth. Queenslanders are sick of a Labor prime minister telling them one thing at an election and then immediately afterwards reversing, cancelling, stopping—

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