Federal election
Mr FINN (Western Metropolitan) (12:50): It is often said that the first casualty of war is truth. Truth is sadly all too often a casualty of election campaigns as well. Anyone travelling along the Tullamarine Freeway just near Essendon Fields will see a huge and very expensive sign above the roadway that screams the message ‘Save our NDIS’. It is clearly indicating the NDIS is somehow under threat, something I have never heard suggested by anyone. The sign is part of the campaign for the re-election of the federal member for Maribyrnong. He is the same member for Maribyrnong who as the opposition leader at the last election championed the false and grossly misleading Mediscare campaign. He has form. I must admit to more than a small degree of scepticism regarding the NDIS, a massive welfare program based in Canberra. I am delighted to say I have largely been proved wrong. For the member for Maribyrnong to now indulge in attempting to put fear into families of children with disabilities—as well as adults with disabilities—is disgraceful. He of all people should know better. His advertisement is shameful. It is wrong. The re-election of the Morrison government poses no threat to the future of the NDIS. Is it any wonder, any wonder at all, that the member for Maribyrnong is known out our way as ‘Bull Shittin’?