Bert Van Manen (Forde, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is for the Prime Minister. Tomorrow it will be 1,000 days since the election of the Albanese Labor government. The Prime Minister promised a $275 cut on power bills and life would be cheaper under Labor. Instead, working households are now paying up to $1,000 more for energy than promised, the cost of living has increased by nearly 20 per cent, and people are suffering the longest recession on record. Why won't this Prime Minister apologise to Australians for his weak leadership, bad decisions and wrong priorities?

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

I thank the member for his question. We're strengthening Medicare; they want to cut it. We're growing wages; they want people to work longer for less. We've cut taxes for every single taxpayer, including those in the electorate of Forde; the member for Forde voted against it. We've made medicines cheaper; they voted against it multiple times. We're building new energy now; they support a plan to build nuclear power stations in the 2040s, even though AGL have made it very clear that coal-fired power stations can't keep going forever, and there will be energy shortages. We're backing a future made in Australia; they want to send jobs and industries offshore. The member for Forde's plan, and this bloke's plan—

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

The Prime Minister can direct his remarks through the chair.

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

This bloke's plan here—the party he supports have a plan that envisages 40 per cent less energy use than what the Australian Energy Market Operator says will be necessary. That means less manufacturing, fewer jobs and less economic activity. We're cutting student debt by 20 per cent; those opposite say it's very, very bad. We're making free TAFE permanent; those opposite say that free TAFE has no value for the 600,000 Australians who benefit from it. We've given early educators a 15 per cent pay rise; they mock it and call it waste. We have rescued aged care from crisis; those opposite presided over a system that was summed up in one word: neglect.

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

The member for Cowper is now warned.

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

We're delivering on the cost of living; they only care about their mate's cost of lunching. We are a government delivering for all Australians. We understand that cost-of-living pressures are real, which is why we have acted on the cost of living. Those opposite have only acted on the cost of lunch for some of their people. We are a government for all Australians. We're working hard to deliver in every part of the country, because only Labor does the big reforms: universal Medicare, universal super, universal provision of the NDIS for those people who need it, universal child care—opposed once again by those opposite just before question time. Only Labor drives the big reforms. Only Labor builds to last. Only Labor is building Australia's future.

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

The member for Wright is warned.