anyone remember this.........
Prior to the 2013 Federal Election, Tony Abbott made it clear that he would never do deals with independents, nor minor parties.
Clearly, when he made these statements, he was forgetting that his own party, the Liberal Party, is part of a Coalition with, you guessed it, a minor party known as the Nationals.
On December 4, 2013, it was announced that Tony Abbott's Coalition Goverrnment had done a deal with the Greens to remove the "de.... the "debt ceiling".
Clearly, doing deals with the Greens, a political party that Tony Abbott once described as "economic fringe dwellers", is now part of Tony Abbott's hypocritical Coalition Government.
Interview with David Koch, Sunrise, Seven Network - Friday, September 6, 2013
DAVID KOCH: We are now joined by Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, from Melbourne. The Seven News ReachTEL poll has the Palmer United Party on 7 per cent. Look, you are home and hosed by the looks of it in the House of Representatives not so much in the Senate. Would you do a deal with Clive Palmer to get laws through the Senate if his party gains the balance of power?
TONY ABBOTT: Kochie, I want to form a strong majority government in both houses of Parliament. If people want to get away from the squalid deals of the last three years, they have got to vote for the Coalition, for the Liberal or for the National Party candidate in both the House or the Senate otherwise we could easily end up with another hung Parliament. We unfortunately had a situation where independents mucked up the last Parliament. Let's not let independents and minor parties muck up the next Parliament.
DAVID KOCH: So, you wouldn't do a deal then with Clive Palmer?
TONY ABBOTT: I want to form a strong and stable majority government that builds a stronger economy so everyone can get ahead, which scraps the carbon tax, which ends the waste, which stops the boat and which builds the roads of the 21st century and that's not what Clive wants to do.
