James McGrath (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Shadow Assistant Minister to the Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I want to tell a story about a bloke who's a blatant and unapologetic—I can't say the word, but it rhymes with 'fire' and begins with the letter 'l'. This someone is a purveyor of untruths.

Karen Grogan (SA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Senator McGrath, I'll just caution you as well.

James McGrath (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Shadow Assistant Minister to the Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

He's a purveyor of untruths, a fibber, a fabulist, a fabricator, a deceiver, a maligner, a befuddler, a hoodwinker, a hornswoggler, an equivocator, a prevaricator, a falsifier, a fabricator of falsehoods or, as the Italians would say, un bugiardo. Of course, these are words that all apply to Prime Minister Anthony Norman Albanese.

Karen Grogan (SA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Senator McGrath, I will just caution you about impugning another member.

James McGrath (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Shadow Assistant Minister to the Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

As Leader of the Labor Party, he campaigned religiously on bringing back truth, trust and transparency to government—three words beginning with the letter 't' that should never be seen in the same sentence or the same room with Labor and Prime Minister Albanese. We have a Prime Minister who, on the issue of tax, looked down the camera—as I am doing now—and said to the Australian people: 'Trust me. My word is my bond.' But guess what? He was holding his fingers like this, wasn't he, fellow senators? The Prime Minister, this purveyor of untruths, misled the Australian people at the last election and has misled the Australian people since the last election about the issue of taxes.

If he misled you back in 2022, this Prime Minister and this Labor Party will mislead you when it comes to changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax on the family home. Labor keep saying they have no plans. Guess what? They said they had no plans to change the tax rates. Guess what? They've done that. Once a purveyor of untruths, always a purveyor of untruths.