Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I can confirm that, as a result of the work of this government and this parliament, we have ensured that Medicare is guaranteed. We are working now in the Senate to ensure that Australian children get a nationally consistent, transparent and needs based education funding model, as recommended by David Gonski and as espoused—in theory, at least—by the Labor Party for so many years, but never delivered.

I can remind the Leader of the Opposition, who talks about rising energy prices, that he might well talk about his party's role in putting them where they are. It was not a Liberal government that allowed so much gas to be exported from Queensland without any regard to the consequences for the domestic market. It was not a Liberal-National government that decided to push renewable energy targets in South Australia without any regard to sustainability, storage or backup. But it is a Liberal-National government, it is a coalition government, that is taking action now on gas prices—that is taking action now on gas prices and that is taking action now, which Labor never went near, to stop energy companies from making re-hearing applications to decisions by the Australian Energy Regulator in respect of what they can charge for their poles and wires.

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