Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

Can I say to the Australian people that the then Leader of the Opposition and now Prime Minister said that he would not do any deals with others to form government—unlike the dodgy deal that the Australian Labor Party did with the Australian Greens, to their eternal shame. Coming from the state of Tasmania, Mr President, as you and I do, we had the double whammy of a state Labor leader saying, 'No deals with the Greens' and then a federal Labor leader saying, 'No deals with the Greens' and then both of them ratted off their promise to the electorate and did a deal with the Greens and destroyed the economy in the process. (Time expired)