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

My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister spent the first 18 months distracted by touring the world and spending $450 million on the divisive Voice referendum instead of focusing on making economic decisions and putting budgets together to help Australian families—not hurt them. Will the Prime Minister take responsibility for the cost-of-living pain that Australian families are feeling today?

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

Order! The Minister for Home Affairs will cease interjecting. The member for Moreton is warned. The Prime Minister has the call.

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

I'll leave people to draw their own conclusions between the gap that was there of mere seconds of speaking about the importance of a relationship with our neighbours and with the world and that question. He asked me about what we are doing. What we're doing is dealing with cost-of-living pressures, cost-of-living pressures that he has voted against—every single one of them!

Energy price relief: what did he do? He voted against it. The tax cuts for every Australian that will come in on Monday for all 13.6 million taxpayers, he not only said that they should be rolled back—and the opposition said they would reverse it—he said we should go to an election on it. That was how strongly he felt about it before he voted for it.

He voted against cheaper medicines. You know, 60-day dispensing was going to have a devastating impact. Pharmacies were going to close. None of that happened either. He is against fee-free TAFE. Now over 400,000 Australians have already enrolled in fee-free TAFE and made a difference there. Of course, we know that he has opposed wages keeping up with the cost of living. What they did—

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

Deputy Leader of the Opposition, the Prime Minister was asked a very broad question regarding a whole range of topics and he is addressing the topics in the question. I will hear the member for Moncrieff on a point of order.

Angie Bell (Moncrieff, Liberal National Party, Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Members should be called by their correct titles, Mr Speaker. The Prime Minister has repeatedly called the opposition leader 'he'. Members should be addressed by their correct title.

Government members interjecting—

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

Order! The member for Moncrieff is entitled to raise her point of order. She is assisting the House. I will make sure that the Prime Minister is addressing people through their correct titles, and he will address his remarks through the chair.

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

Anything is possible, Mr Speaker, anything is possible on that side. I wasn't aware he was a 'they', but anything is possible. We know from Karen Middleton that not only did they have 22 different energy policies in 10 years but—now we know—they had three different energy policies in one weekend. This is how their climate change denial runs: one mistake in one interview and they walk away from a 2030 target; one slip of the tongue and they just junk it all. They are basing their energy policy—

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

Order! The member for Lyons will cease interjecting. The Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme will cease interjecting so I can hear from the Leader of the Opposition on a point of order.

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

The Prime Minister has had a fair run but, on relevance, Australian households can't afford to pay their mortgages. Small businesses are going broke, and this Prime Minister doesn't have a clue—

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

Resume your seat. I remind the Leader of the Opposition he is falling into a little bit of a habit of adding extra things during his points of order. You will always be granted a point of order on relevance. The Prime Minister needs to make sure his answer is being directly relevant to the question that he was asked, and he has the call.

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

Yes, Mr Speaker. They've come up with the most expensive form of new energy possible. They're basing their energy policy for the next decade on the basis of a mistake in the Weekend Australian. The shadow cabinet got rolled by Dennis Shanahan. It's just extraordinary. Well done, Dennis—keep going! (Time expired)