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PM wants to airbrush history: Turnbull
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is employing shameless "Orwellian" tactics to airbrush the
Liberal Party's achievements from history, the opposition says.
Speaking at the NSW Liberal state council meeting at the University of Sydney on
Saturday, Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull again likened the Labor Party to the
government in George Orwell's novel 1984, which wields sinister controls over
information.
"In February, (Mr Rudd) said that the past 30 years of government in Australia had
been a failure of extreme neo-liberal free market economics," Mr Turnbull said,
referring to an essay Mr Rudd wrote for The Monthly magazine.
"And in doing so, he dismissed all of the reforms, not just on our side...
"He has dismissed all the economic progress in this country...
"All of the extraordinary prosperity that we have created in Australia through
decades of economic reform, which we as Liberals have always led, and always
supported...
"There is a shamelessness about the way the Rudd Labor Party is prepared to simply
look down the lens of the camera and say shamelessly and unblinkingly black is
white.
"They do not care.
"It is truly Orwellian."
This was the second time in recent days Mr Turnbull recalled the British novelist's
dystopian work in speaking of Labor. He used a similar line at a Liberal Party
dinner in Canberra on Thursday night.
On Saturday, he also took a swipe at Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard over the
$16 billion Building the Education Revolution program.
Ms Gillard has been accused of waste, with examples such as Abbotsford Public
School, in Sydney's inner west, receiving a $2.5 million grant under the program for
new classrooms to replace four serviceable ones.
"If it was put in an episode of Hollowmen, it would not be credible," Mr Turnbull
said, referring to the ABC television comedy series.
In Parliament, Mr Turnbull said, Ms Gillard had pointed out the classrooms had been
built in the 1950s.
"I thought to myself as I was coming up here (the University of Sydney), this
university was built in the 1850s.
"What is going to happen to the Great Hall?
"Will it shortly be replaced by a Julia Gillard memorial demountable assembly hall?"
The NSW Liberal Party's State Council and Convention continues on Sunday.
Liberal Party's achievements from history, the opposition says.
Speaking at the NSW Liberal state council meeting at the University of Sydney on
Saturday, Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull again likened the Labor Party to the
government in George Orwell's novel 1984, which wields sinister controls over
information.
"In February, (Mr Rudd) said that the past 30 years of government in Australia had
been a failure of extreme neo-liberal free market economics," Mr Turnbull said,
referring to an essay Mr Rudd wrote for The Monthly magazine.
"And in doing so, he dismissed all of the reforms, not just on our side...
"He has dismissed all the economic progress in this country...
"All of the extraordinary prosperity that we have created in Australia through
decades of economic reform, which we as Liberals have always led, and always
supported...
"There is a shamelessness about the way the Rudd Labor Party is prepared to simply
look down the lens of the camera and say shamelessly and unblinkingly black is
white.
"They do not care.
"It is truly Orwellian."
This was the second time in recent days Mr Turnbull recalled the British novelist's
dystopian work in speaking of Labor. He used a similar line at a Liberal Party
dinner in Canberra on Thursday night.
On Saturday, he also took a swipe at Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard over the
$16 billion Building the Education Revolution program.
Ms Gillard has been accused of waste, with examples such as Abbotsford Public
School, in Sydney's inner west, receiving a $2.5 million grant under the program for
new classrooms to replace four serviceable ones.
"If it was put in an episode of Hollowmen, it would not be credible," Mr Turnbull
said, referring to the ABC television comedy series.
In Parliament, Mr Turnbull said, Ms Gillard had pointed out the classrooms had been
built in the 1950s.
"I thought to myself as I was coming up here (the University of Sydney), this
university was built in the 1850s.
"What is going to happen to the Great Hall?
"Will it shortly be replaced by a Julia Gillard memorial demountable assembly hall?"
The NSW Liberal Party's State Council and Convention continues on Sunday.
