Labor senator Sue Lines accuses Tony Abbott of using national security as a shield against budget mess

By Latika Bourke
Updated August 29 2014 - 7:08am, first published August 28 2014 - 4:45pm

A Labor senator has accused Prime Minister Tony Abbott of "scaremongering" over national security and using the situation in Iraq as a "shield" to deflect from its budget mess and to improve his position in the polls.

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