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

The cabinet office policy committees meet together on a regular basis to focus on key challenges and issues facing the Australian people. As the convener of that committee, I bring into that Cabinet Office Policy Committee members of the cabinet, of the executive and of the government. That Cabinet Office Policy Committee has been dealing with issues like getting electricity prices down, how we manage plastics waste, how we can get focused on the energy needs of Australia into the future and how we can focus on meeting the challenges of the drought.

These cabinet office policy committees have been crucial mechanisms used for the government to come together, to pull together the experience, the learnings and the wisdom of those who sit on the government benches, and to focus on the issues that are most important to the Australian people. The lesson that the Australian people are getting from the opposition at the moment is that those opposite are more interested in the trivial politics of Canberra than the serious issues that are confronting the Australian people.

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