Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday the Prime Minister could not name who had the idea to offer almost half a billion dollars of taxpayer money to a small private foundation, but today the Prime Minister has already used question time to claim other ideas as his own work. Can the Prime Minister now tell us who came up with the half-a-billion-dollar-taxpayer-funded-giveaway idea? To put it another way: if it was such a good idea, why won't the Prime Minister tell us whose idea it was?

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

The Leader of the Opposition clearly hasn't been listening to the Minister for the Environment, who has said a number of times—as have others—that the submission to make the contribution to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation was made by the Minister for the Environment and went through the full pre-budget cabinet process, with which the honourable member is no doubt familiar from his time in government. The very sad thing we have to confront today is that the Leader of the Opposition and the Labor Party have no ideas for cheaper electricity. They have no ideas for anything other than higher taxes, higher energy prices, fewer jobs, less investment and lower wages. That is the melancholy list of the Labor Party's ideas. When energy prices are higher, they celebrate and describe it as a triumph of the market working well.