Josh Burns (Macnamara, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. What have been the Albanese Labor government's priorities for the parliamentary sitting, and what has stood in the way?

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

Over the last two weeks, despite the negativity and the nastiness of those opposite and the pointless noise coming from across the chamber, this government has got on with the job of delivering for Australia, making sure that childcare workers get a 15 per cent pay rise, bringing the states together to deliver reform of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, working together with our neighbours and partners in Indonesia to strengthen our region's security and stability as well as meeting with the President-elect of Indonesia and hosting the prime ministers of New Zealand and Qatar, progressing our plan for a future made in Australia and, over there in the Senate as we speak, advancing the Net Zero Economy Authority so that that gets done as well this week.

We're working to deliver $3 billion in HECS relief and a fairer higher education system. We're bringing together two great Labor economic reforms by adding superannuation to paid parental leave. We're dealing with advances so that we can take action to remove the scourge of domestic violence in a generation. This is what matters to Australians, this is what makes a difference to people's lives and this is what my government is focused on.

We stand together and we look ahead together, because what our great history has shown us, time and time again, is that Australia is always best when we come together, when we seek to unite rather than seek to divide and when we try to work with people rather than target individuals in a cynical exercise aimed at targeting a whole group of Australians.

I have been asked a lot about numbers in the past week, so here are some numbers I'm focused on: 13.6 million, the number of Australians who got a tax cut on 1 July; 2.6 million, the number of award wage earners who got a pay rise; three million, the number of additional bulk-billed GP appointments; 10 million, the number of households getting dollars off their power bills; one million, the number of families benefiting from cheaper child care; 650,000, the number of visits to our Medicare urgent care clinics; half a million, the number of fee-free TAFE enrolments; 70,000, the number of new manufacturing jobs; and over one million, the number of households benefiting from increases in rent assistance. That's what we've been focused on. Those opposite have forgotten their job. (Time expired)

Ted O'Brien (Fairfax, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

You forgot 275. You forgot 275.

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

Order! The member for Fairfax will just take a breath. The Prime Minister has the call.

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

I ask that further questions be placed on the Notice Paper.