Angus Taylor (Hume, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister promised on 97 occasions to reduce power bills by $275. The Prime Minister has also promised on 34 occasions to implement the Uluru statement in full. Can Australians believe anything this weak Prime Minister says?

Ho nourable members interjecting—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! The Minister for Home Affairs will cease interjecting. The member for Hunter will leave the chamber under 94(a). Interjecting before a minister or the Prime Minister speaks is highly disorderly. The Prime Minister has the call.

The member for Hunter then left the chamber.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

It will be very difficult not to be relevant to that question, given that I think it was about the Voice and it was about energy and climate change. It was about a whole range of things and commitments. We committed, prior to the election, to having an energy policy.

A government member: Just one!

Just one! And we got one. We've got one with a net zero by 2050 target, with a 43 per cent reduction by 2030, with a safeguard mechanism system in place to drive down the emissions of the top emitters in an orderly way so that business can have certainty to invest.

We committed to re-engaging with the world on climate change. The visit from our friend the Prime Minister of Fiji is another reminder that, instead of being in the naughty corner, as Australia was, in the Pacific, in our region, when it comes to climate change, we are now constructive contributors when it comes to climate change.

We also of course committed to having a referendum when it comes to the constitutional recognition through a voice to parliament. We said we would do it, we did it, the Australian people had their say, and we accept that outcome, as we should in our democratic process.

But those opposite, of course, have a different position every single day. The opposition leader has been called out for the fact that he makes things up regularly, sometimes several times a day. David Crowe, in the Sydney Morning Herald, spoke about—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order. I'll just ask the Prime Minister to pause, so I can hear from—

The member for Morton will not be interjecting anymore during question time. The member for Hume on a point of order?

Angus Taylor (Hume, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

On relevance, Mr Speaker: we've given him two minutes and 20 seconds, and he is not talking about the question. The question was very specific.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Resume your seat. The question said at the end, 'Can Australians believe anything the Prime Minister says?' That was in the question. 'Can Australians believe anything the Prime Minister says?'

Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

That was not the question he asked.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Well, you're lying again.

Honourable members interjecting—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! I call the Manager of Opposition Business.

Paul Fletcher (Bradfield, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Government Services and the Digital Economy) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

That was unparliamentary language, and the Prime Minister should immediately withdraw that.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

To assist the House, I'm just going to ask the Prime Minister to withdraw. I ask the Prime Minister to quickly withdraw.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

We all heard it said. We all heard the question. I was answering the question.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

If you can take your seat for a moment, Leader of the Opposition, I'd just ask the Prime Minister to quickly withdraw to assist the House.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I withdraw.

Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, if it helps the House, and to assist the House, as I'm always pleased to do, I can repeat the question put by the shadow Treasurer: can Australians believe anything this weak Prime Minister says? That's what he said.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Deputy Leader of the House has the call.

Mark Butler (Hindmarsh, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

That is a complete abuse of standing orders. We allowed the shadow Treasurer—because he has so little time at the dispatch box—to make a ridiculous point of order on relevance with the most wide-ranging question—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Deputy Leader of the House will—

Opposition members interjecting—

Order! Members on my left will cease interjecting. I thank the Leader of the Opposition for his assistance and I thank the Deputy Leader of the House for his assistance. Win-win! Now, the Prime Minister has 40 seconds remaining. I'm just going to ask him to return to the question.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The shadow Treasurer is incapable of asking a question of the Treasurer about the economy. Every now and again he puts in an MPI, hoping that no-one will be here to listen—every day, prime time, later in the afternoon. He is a joke.

Opposition members interjecting—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order, the member for La Trobe. When the House comes to order, I'll hear from the member for Makin.