Kevin Hogan (Page, National Party, Shadow Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

I withdraw it.

Th e DEPUTY SPEAKER: The member for Page, I am listening very, very carefully.

And I invite the other members opposite who said where are you getting this information from or these statistics from. I will spread the information about where this meeting is at 10 o'clock on Monday morning. There are going to be community members from these communities who will tell their stories, and I will invite you to come. It will be interesting to see which of you members do turn up to that who don't believe what's been going on in these communities. Again, I think the blind ideology that you have had about that card has caused great distress in those communities, and I think it certainly hasn't been a pretty good 10 months for those communities.

Obviously that topic has taken up more time than I thought it would, but there are other things I do wish to mention very briefly. This government said that its energy policy was the most modelled policy by an opposition in history. The Ukraine war had started, when they came into government, and they were saying they were going to lower everyone's electricity bills. Again, it hasn't been a good 10 months for anyone who has to pay an energy bill. The mortgages—they actually said mortgages would be lower under them when they came into government, and, again, it hasn't been a great 10 months for any mortgage repayment person in this country. So there's a lot that this government has to be ashamed of in its first 10 months.

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