Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. How can the Prime Minister claim to lead a stable government when, on the day set aside to pay respect to victims of the bushfires, the Nationals decided to have a leadership challenge and today a National Party member quit, threatening the government's control of the House? When Australia needs stable government, why do we have a coalition of chaos?

Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Opposition does not represent the situation in the government at all—not at all. Here are all our members. The member for Wide Bay is up the top there. He's doing a great job, as all members are representing their constituents. I'll tell you what they're doing. They're doing what they promised the Australian people they would do. They said when they went to their electorates that they were part of a government that was going to keep the economy strong, keep Australians safe and keep Australians together.

Since that election we've been delivering on the commitments we took to the Australian people—delivering tax cuts, getting on with the job of delivering our Climate Solutions Fund, getting on with the job of keeping Australians safe and, in the face of some of the biggest disasters we've seen, responding with the establishment of the National Bushfire Recovery Agency, the stand-up of the first compulsory call-out of the reserves in response to a bushfire crisis and the implementation of our packages to support drought affected farmers. With the stand-up arrangements in terms of counterterrorism and ensuring that we're doing the right thing in terms of foreign influence and the impact of foreign terrorist fighters our government is keeping Australians safe. We're respecting our veterans with the measures we announced last week in particular and we're getting on with the job that we promised the Australian people we'd do. There's $100 million in additional infrastructure investment, which is building not only the roads but the rail connections that this country needs both now and in the future. We are delivering on what we told the Australian people we would do.

What do we have from those opposite? Each way—they're for tax cuts and they're against tax cuts; they're for the drought fund and they're against the drought fund; and they're for emissions reductions but they don't have a reductions target. Each way; they want it every way—

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Opposition, on a point of order?

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question didn't invite him to use the rhetoric from Sky NewsAfter Dark. I asked him about his government's performance.

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Prime Minister has concluded his answer.