Michael Sukkar (Deakin, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you. That's a very confused backbencher there. It's not question time yet. Those standing orders don't apply.

We've got millions of Australians who will get home today and have that bill in the mail, and they'll be wondering, 'How on earth do I pay it?' It could be a gas bill. It could be an electricity bill. Many of them will have voted for the Labor Party on the basis that its leader promised them he would reduce their power prices by $275 a year. Many Australians, honest people, would have thought that was an honest commitment from the Prime Minister. Every single person opposite who is interjecting had that on brochures that went out into people's letterboxes: 'We promise a $275 reduction.' People are today dealing with the consequences, and they would rightly expect that the government was focused on that. Instead, what we've got is a vindictive and politically motivated stunt from the government.

Where on earth is the government's response to the royal commission? Where is it? I would say, with something that's 900 pages long, I can understand why the government would still be considering all of those recommendations. I understand that, which is why this motion today is so obviously politically motivated. How on earth could the government be moving this motion before they had considered and responded to the recommendations by their hand-picked commissioner? It's very clear—

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