Adam Bandt (Melbourne, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Now that you are listening to the public, will you firmly commit to ditching policies like the GP co-payment or the GP payment and your crusade against renewable energy, or will you just be putting your bad ideas through a competitive evaluation process?

Mr Conroy interjecting—

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Charlton will desist or leave us; the choice is his.

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

We absolutely support renewable energy. We always have and we always will, but we want to support renewable energy in a way that delivers the lowest possible power prices for consumers. The thing to understand about members opposite is that, every chance they get, they want to increase power prices.

Ms Owens interjecting—

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Parramatta is warned!

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Every chance they get, they want to increase power prices. They just cannot help themselves. They hate lower power prices. They want to bring back a carbon tax to slug Australian families—

Mr Hutchinson interjecting—

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Lyons will desist!

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

with $550 a year more, and they want to keep the renewable energy target not at 20 per cent but at more like 27 per cent, which means much higher power prices for the people of Australia. That is the problem. They talked about a 20 per cent target. They want to deliver a 27 per cent target—typical of the deception and the duplicity of members opposite. They were incompetent in government, and they are wreckers from opposition. That is what members opposite are.

On the subject of Medicare, I was a health minister for four years, and I am proud of my record as a health minister for four years. I was the best friend that Medicare ever had as health minister, and I will be the best friend that Medicare now has as Prime Minister, because these are the principles.

Opposition members interjecting—

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

There will be some silence on my left!

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

These are the principles. We will protect the vulnerable. We will deliver a better health system. But, above all else, we will keep Medicare. Under members opposite, Medicare simply was unsustainable. We will ensure that we have a very good and strong Medicare system for ever. That is what you will get from this government.