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

My question is to the Prime Minister. On 11 December last year, Treasury was instructed to undertake work that included changes to the stage 3 tax cuts. After that date, the Prime Minister and the Treasurer then repeated 12 times that they hadn't changed their position on the stage 3 tax cuts. Indeed, the Prime Minister said, 'We're not reconsidering that position.' Prime Minister, after repeatedly misleading Australians, how can anyone trust you or your government?

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

The shadow Treasurer, I assume, knows that he's completely wrong in his assessment of what the Treasury official said occurred on 11 December. She made it very clear that she is a good public servant and that Treasury initiated that work. We have made no apologies, though—

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

The member for Gippsland is warned.

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

for the fact that I, on 7.30 on 21 December, on 3 January and on other occasions, said we were working on ways in which we could provide further support for low- and middle-income Australians. That's what we do. That's what we do, and we have been doing that through a range of measures since we came to office because of (1) the pressure people are under and (2) the mess we inherited.

We had a range of measures that we have rolled out—cheaper child care, cheaper medicines, our energy price relief plan, our fee-free TAFE plan. All of these measures are in place. What we did—and this would be unrecognisable to those opposite—is run a proper cabinet government. We received Treasury advice on the weekend prior to the ERC meeting held on the Monday of two weeks ago. We then had cabinet on Tuesday, and that is where we changed our position as a proper cabinet government.

I'm just the Prime Minister; I'm not also the Treasurer or the health minister or the industry minister or the energy minister. We don't have a cabinet committee of one. What we have is proper processes: an ERC, a cabinet, a ministry, and a proper caucus process as well. Our united, proper process that we go through stands in stark contrast to what we've seen in Nemesisin stark contrast with a mob who hate each other, who have completely dysfunctional relationships. They're all still there! They're all appearing one by one, and I look forward to next Monday night.

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

Order. The Prime Minister will pause. The Manager of Opposition Business, on a point of order.

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

Again on relevance, Mr Speaker. The policy parameters of this question are very tight, and he needs to stick to the substance of the question.

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

In his last nine seconds, I'll ask the Prime Minister to be relevant to the question.

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

The member for Bradfield, of course, is under preselection siege, as is the member for Lindsay. If you want to see your enemies, don't look over here; look behind you.