Question Time: Labor dodges, the public abuses Julia Gillard opens with twice refusing to answer when her government will deliver a surplus. As she sits down someone - a spectator - yells out "liar." He is removed. Treasurer Wayne Swan refuses to say if he's still planning to repay the debt. Later, as Gillard beats up her 457 visa scare she is heckled again by a spectator, also crying "liar." I wonder if it's something to do with the protest outside Parliament by the Consumers and Taxpayers" Association. I do believe this Government under this Prime Minister has contributed to the coarsening of public debate, with various Labor Ministers and backbenchers, for instance, vilifying the Opposition Leader as a "thug," "misogynist," "douchebag," "Neanderthal," "nuts," "sexist," "rancid," "Australia's biggest bullshit artist," "mendacious," "deceitful," "deceptive," "bully" and more. Climate Change Minister Greg Combet is one of the worst offenders, but Gillard is responsible for the decision to personally denigrate Abbott.. That said, I am also with Victorian Nationals MP Darren Chester, who is worried about the public's abuse of their Prime Minister: "I am disturbed by the tone of the political debate and the increasingly personal nature of the attacks on our PM," he said. I believe we need to lay off the PM. It's not Australian to continue to comment in a vicious and personal nature about the Prime Minister. Mr Chester said members of parliament must show the way, by focusing on policies not personalities. I think we need to focus on the policies and I think the Australian people can learn a lot more about a dignified debate. People in this place have to lead the way," he said. That applies to Labor just as much as to the Coalition. Labor's Steve Gibbons does not waste this chance to smear and frame Abbott: This hypocrite is the same lout who tweeted this abuse: The man is as brazen as he is toxic.