Mrs PHILLIPS (Gilmore) (13:55): If there were an Olympic gold medal for political backflips, the Liberal candidate for Gilmore would win hands down.

After the devastating bushfires, he said he'd quit politics—but then said he'd run for Eden-Monaro. The next day he abandoned that idea.

Then he wanted to represent a different electorate—Gilmore—and lost. He followed that with two failed Senate preselections to represent New South Wales, and even sounded out the state seat of Kiama.

As a minister in the Liberal state government, he supported renewables. Now he has backflipped: he doesn't want offshore wind and supports the nuclear fantasy.

Then, on Sky News live, he said that the 2035 Paris Agreement target was 'off the table' for the Liberal Party. The only thing was: it wasn't. So he backflipped again and walked that back.

It turns out backflips are in the Liberal candidate for Gilmore's DNA.

When he was the state member for Bega and minister, he supported the closing of the Batemans Bay hospital to enable the creation of the new level 4 Eurobodalla Regional Hospital. He said that the community should rally together and cast their parochialism aside. Now he's backflipped on that too, and is trying to fool the community.

At a Kiama housing round table, he supported periurban development, like over those green rolling hills. Only months later, he has backflipped again. The only housing he wants is 10 to 15 years away.

How can anyone trust a word the gold-medal backflipper says?