Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Cabinet processes I wouldn't go into in a public forum such as this. But what I would make very clear is that the government has not made a decision in relation to the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The government has not made a decision on that. What I simply said was that I was persuaded by the arguments that were made by the former ambassador to Israel from Australia, Dave Sharma, about the case he was putting forward and that we would be posing that question and that we would be consulting on that question with a view, down the track, to making a decision. And we will follow the full process that would be necessary to go through to come to a decision on that matter. The opposition doesn't seem to understand the difference between a decision of a government and a question that is being posed. That is the clear distinction that has been made.

The Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition raise questions in relation to what can be expected in the future. I can tell you what can be expected in the future if the Labor leader becomes the Prime Minister of this country: $200 billion of reckless taxes on the Australian economy. He won't stand up to big electricity companies. He won't take a big stick to electricity companies to ensure that customers get the right deal from electricity companies. He won't do that, but he will take a big stick to the house prices of Australians.

We've had 100,000 young home buyers and other home buyers get back into the market in the last year, the best result we've seen in eight years.

Ms Ryan interjecting—

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